The Story of Tracy Beaker

by Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt (Illustrator)

Overview

A fabulous new look for this classic and much-loved tale featuring Jacqueline's most popular character.
     'I'm Tracy Beaker. This is a book all about me.  I'd read it if I were you.  It's the most incredible dynamic heart-rending story.  Honest.'

     Tracy is ten years old.  She lives in a Children's Home but would like a real home one day with a real family.  Meet Tracy, follow her story and share her hopes for the future in this beautifully observed, touching and often very funny tale, all told in Tracy's own words. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780440867579
Publisher:	Transworld Publishers Limited
Publication date:	11/28/2006
Series:	Tracy Beaker , #1
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.19(w) x 7.69(h) x 0.44(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

JACQUELINE WILSON is an extremely well-known and  hugely popular author who served as Children's Laureate from 2005-7.  She was been awarded a number of prestigious awards, including the British Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award (for The Illustrated Mum), the Smarties Prize and the Children’s Book Award (for Double Act, for which she was also highly commended for the Carnegie Medal).  In 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame.  She was the author most borrowed from British libraries in the last decade.

NICK SHARRATT has written and illustrated many books for chidren and won numerous awards for his picture books, including the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the 2001 Children's Book Award.  He has also enjoyed great success illustrating Jacqueline Wilson books.  Nick lives in Edinburgh.

Editorial Reviews

Wilson again shapes a convincing and memorable heroine with a snappy, fresh voice.” — Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

Wilson pushes so much pain between the lines of this portrait of a foster child with the personality of a steamroller that it comes off less a lightweight tribute to human resilience than a pathos-ridden tale of children acting out as they nurse profound inner wounds. Ever ready to lash out verbally or physically, Tracy swaggers through her account of life in the group home to which her second pair of foster parents have returned her, meanwhile leaning heavily on the thin hope that her long-gone mother will return to her. Readers will easily see through all the tough talk to the vulnerability within, as she browbeats Peter, a younger housemate, while drawing on personal experience to help him cope with persistent bedwetting; passes from denial through defiance to trying for a truce after breaking archrival Justine's most prized possession (a cheap alarm clock from her father); and goes relentlessly to work on Cam, a visiting journalist, to take her as a foster child. Interspersed line drawings done in a childlike style, and letters exchanged by Tracy and Cam, fail to lift the heavy mood. By the end, Cam has still not come around-but readers may be too annoyed by Tracy's rude, aggressive character to care. "(Fiction. 10-12)"

Kirkus Reviews