Other mums help as well- they take Sadie and other children to their workplaces! The children find out how it is to be a police officer, office worker and shop assistant. That is when Sadie becomes a mum-minder! She takes on her mum’s responsibilities and takes care both of her ill mum as well as a group of children. Sadie’s mum is a child minder and one day she comes down with flu. Although Sadie is a very young child, she finds herself in a situation where she has to act like an adult. It tells the story of a girl called Sadie Sadie is nearly nine and considers herself very independent, helpful and mature. The Mum-Minder written by Jacqueline Wilson is a book that would mostly appeal to KS2 girls. In 2008 she became Dame Jacqueline Wilson.

In 2002 Jacqueline was awarded the OBE for services to literacy in schools and from 2005 to 2007 she was the Children’s Laureate. She has sold millions of books and in the UK alone the total now stands at over 35 million! Jacqueline is one of the nation’s favourite authors, and her books are loved and cherished by young readers not only in the UK but all over the world. The Story of Tracy Beaker won the 2002 Blue Peter People’s Choice Award. The Illustrated Mum won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the 1999 Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and was also shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Children’s Book Award.ĭouble Act won the prestigious Smarties Medal and the Children’s Book Award as well as being highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. Since then Jacqueline has been on countless awards shortlists and has gone on to win many awards.

This was also the first of her books to be illustrated by Nick Sharratt.

One of Jacqueline’s most successful and enduring creations has been the famous Tracy Beaker, who first appeared in 1991 in The Story of Tracy Beaker. As a teenager she started work for a magazine publishing company and then went on to work as a journalist on Jackie magazine (which she was told was named after her!) before turning to writing novels full-time. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first ‘novel’ when she was nine, filling in countless Woolworths’ exercise books as she grew up. Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames.

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