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Don't miss the South Bank Show this Sunday. It will profile Children's Laureate, Jacqueline Wilson:
Publicity notes for the programme:
Jacqueline Wilson is one of Britain’s most popular children’s authors and the current Children’s Laureate. She has sold millions of books – over 20 million in the UK alone – and is currently the most borrowed author from British libraries. In one of her early books, Nobody’s Perfect, the teenage protagonist dreams of becoming a famous writer and being interviewed by Melvynn Bragg. This South Bank Show is the first serious documentary about her. Melvyn talks to Jacqueline Wilson about her upbringing in Kingston, her early ambitions to be a writer and her catalogue of work. It wasn’t until she was almost 50 that she devised her most famous creation, Tracy Beaker – a feisty, streetwise girl in a children’s home. This book was a breakthrough for her and its subsequent television adaptation introduced her to a mass audience. She has since carved out a unique position in children’s writing with her stories about real-life situations: families experiencing divorce, mental illness and bullying. Her popularity continues to increase and she now conducts legendary book signings, lasting up to nine hours. The South Bank Show explores why Jacqueline is such a popular author by talking to her fans. Her young readers recognize aspects of themselves in her characters - their fears, their dreams and the difficulties of being a child and facing the problems of growing up. They look upon Jacqueline Wilson as a friend who understands them. Despite her busy schedule, she replies to each child who writes a letter to her, and has been writing to some of them for many years. Jacqueline returns to her old school, Coombe Girls, to talk to the girls about her time there and what it’s like to be a young teenager today. She also visits Hay-on-Wye to indulge in her life-long passion of book collecting. She currently has over 15,000 books. Jacqueline is almost as well known for her extravagant rings which fascinate her fans. The South Bank Show talks to the jeweller who makes all her rings, as well as her illustrator Nick Sharratt, Julia Eccelshare, The Guardian’s children’s book editor, and the child psychologist Nicholas Tucker.
