Vicky Angel

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I didn't get a chance to explain I was being sly, not shy. I tried not to mind too much. Even Dame Judi Dench would find it hard to get a special cheer if she had to play a stoat.

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Even @Hapfairy herself seemed slightly confused about her suggestion: 'I don't have a clue how to connect the two, but I could never find anything I liked as much as Jacqueline Wilson until I read Terry Pratchett!' she told us. 'It was love at first read...' Hey, if it worked for her, it might work for you, too... Or for teenagers who enjoyed Tracy Beaker and the real life issues in Jacqueline Wilson's books, head to Alex Wheatle's perfect Crongton series: Liccle Bit, Crongton Knightsand Straight Outta Crongton. Your suggestionsWilson (Double Act) here introduces an animated heroine who delivers droll observations in a self-assured voice with a decidedly British accent. ""I love fooling around, doing crazy things and being Continue reading » A very interesting take on darker topics, this is an interesting way to explain to people how to deal with the death of a close friend or family member. A far cry from traditional middle-grade fiction, this British import is an eye-opening but long-winded account of life in a dingy shelter hotel. Elsa, an aspiring performer who sprinkles her Continue reading »

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You came up with so many brilliant suggestions for What To Read After Jacqueline Wilson that we were a little overwhelmed! Below is just a selection of your recommendations... Authors named Cathy, Cath, Cat and Cas An immensely readable novel which handles serious issues – fractured families, the nature of celebrity – with the lightest of touches.I started with the Persian translated book. I was halfway through the book when I realised there's something wrong, switched to the original book just to find out I'm confronting a totally different book! The translator deleted scenes and words she didn't like! Oh and that mom's boyfriend character was deleted completely! Like, completely! Wilson (The Suitcase Kid) opens this tightly written tale with a bang: 10-year-old Mandy, after being humiliated by three bullying classmates, dashes into the street and gets hit by a bus (she Continue reading »

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I would recommend this book to children aged 10-14/15, or anybody, young or old, who is grieving. It is helpful and I recommend it. Jacqueline has received countless honors and has won several awards in England, including The Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Award for The Bed and Breakfast Star, the Smarties Prize, the Sheffield Children’s Book Award and the Children’s Book Award for Double Act. The Illustrated Mum was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children’s Book Awardand has won the Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award. Girls in Tears received the W.H. Smith Children’s Book of the Year Award. Parents with single-minded, unconventional tastes are the source of much amusement for their conservatively dressed son; ""an eye-boggling feast of extroverted colors and shapes,"" said PW. Ages Continue reading » Miss Gilmore, who's head of English and drama, had us all in, Toad of Toad Hall when we were in Year Seven. I so wanted to be Toad, but Miss Gilmore chose Fatboy Sam. Typecasting. Though he was good. Very good. But I have this mad, totally secret idea that I could have been better.Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read why I came to this decision here. Children's books deal with death all the time, so this is no different. What is different is the way the characters deal with the grief brought on by death. It's written extremely simply and at times the protagonists' narrative was utterly annoying and devoid of anything particularly... enlightening (though what does one expect from a teenager, really) but it does offer up a different approach that I think, at the time the book was published, was not readily available. An unexceptional mix of familiar plot devices, this British import is almost gratingly obvious. Ten-year-old twins Ruby and Garnet take turns narrating, and although their voices aren't especially Continue reading » Whilst perhaps not entirely realistic, this book shines a light on how a pre teen handles the death of another young person and the associating issues of the people who are left behind.

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Our Waterstones Children's Laureate Lauren Child's middle grade Clarice Bean books are also brilliantly relateable - say hello to Clarice Bean, Utterly Me, Clarice Bean Don't Look Now, and Clarice Bean Spells Trouble. For children who are starting to reach the end of their Jacqueline Wilson obsession (or have read them all!)Jacqueline Wilson's books all have one delicious thing in common: readers can IMMEDIATELY step directly into someone's else's brain, usually a girl in challenging circumstances (although Jacqueline has written some books narrated by boys, too, notably Biscuit's story in the brilliant Cliffhanger). That addictive first-person narrative gets many readers utterly hooked right from the get go! Or if you want something even more out there name-wise, how aboutCas Lester? Her book Do You Speak Chocolatewas recommended by @bookloverJoand @jocotterillbook, who described it as "a really wonderful story about friendship across cultural divides". So what's in a name? Quite a lot, it seems... Go with Jacqueline Wilson's favourites... It's stripes vs. dots in this eye-boggling feast of extroverted colors and shapes. Simon, who stands out, ironically, because he wears that drabbest of hues, gray, observes that his mother loves Continue reading » Although she loves him dearly, Violet is scared of her older brother Will, because he often taunts and teases her, and even physically hurts her. Less so now, but children aren't much involved in deaths. There are many stories of children growing up on the 60s through to the 80s and even the 90s where they aren't even told someone is dead-particularly a parent-and aren't taken to the funeral. And then they aren't told "properly" and they aren't really involved in any kind of conversation. Thankfully these days we aren't so afraid of conversation as we once were, and this book was probably a pre-cursor to that shift in dealing with death and children.