The following is a complete list of books published by Dame Jacqueline Wilson, an English novelist who writes for children's literature. Four of her books appear in the BBC's The Big Read poll of the 100 most popular books in the UK, and for her lifetime contribution as a children's writer, Wilson was a UK nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2014. Wilson is the author of many book series; her Tracy Beaker series, inaugurated in 1991 with The Story of Tracy Beaker , includes three sequels and has been adapted into six CBBC television series: The Story of Tracy Beaker , Tracy Beaker Returns , The Dumping Ground , The Tracy Beaker Survival Files , My Mum Tracy Beaker and The Beaker Girls . As of 2023 [update] , Wilson has written over 100 novels.
Year | Title | Ref. |
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1991 | The Story of Tracy Beaker | [1] |
2000 | The Dare Game | [1] |
2006 | Starring Tracy Beaker | [1] |
2009 | Tracy Beaker's Thumping Heart | [2] |
2009 | The Tracy Beaker Quiz Book | [3] |
2012 | The Tracy Beaker Trilogy [lower-alpha 1] | [4] |
2014 | Ask Tracy Beaker and Friends | [5] |
2018 | My Mum Tracy Beaker | [6] |
2019 | We Are the Beaker Girls | [7] |
Year | Title | Ref. |
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1991 | The Werepuppy | [8] |
1995 | The Werepuppy Goes on Holiday | [8] |
Year | Title | Ref. |
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1994 | Twin Trouble | [9] |
1996 | Connie and the Water Babies | [10] |
Year | Title | Ref. |
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1995 | Cliffhanger | [11] |
1999 | Buried Alive! | [12] |
2001 | Biscuit Barrel [lower-alpha 2] | [13] |
Year | Title | Ref. |
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1997 | Girls in Love | [14] |
1998 | Girls Under Pressure | [15] |
1999 | Girls out Late | [16] |
2002 | Girls in Tears | [17] |
2024 | Think Again | [18] |
Year | Title | Ref. |
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2009 | Hetty Feather | [19] |
2011 | Sapphire Battersea | [19] |
2012 | Emerald Star | [19] |
2013 | Diamond | [19] |
2015 | Little Stars | [19] |
2017 | Hetty Feather's Christmas | [19] |
Year | Title | Ref. |
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2016 | Clover Moon | [20] |
2018 | Rose Rivers | [21] |
Year | Title | Ref. |
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2001 | Sleepovers | [22] |
2023 | The Best Sleepover in the World | [23] |
Year | Title | Ref. |
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1969 | Ricky's Birthday. (In the Nippers series.) | [24] |
1972 | Hide and Seek | [25] |
1973 | Truth or Dare | [26] |
1974 | Snap | [27] |
1976 | Let's Pretend | [27] |
1977 | Making Hate | [27] |
1982 | Nobody's Perfect | [27] |
1983 | Waiting for the Sky to Fall | [27] |
1984 | The Killer Tadpole | [27] |
1984 | The Other Side | [27] |
1984 | The School Trip | [27] |
1985 | How to Survive Summer Camp | [27] |
1986 | Amber | [27] |
1986 | The Monster in the Cupboard | [27] |
1987 | The Power of the Shade | [27] |
1987 | Glubbslyme | [27] |
1988 | This Girl | [27] |
1989 | Falling Apart | [27] |
1989 | The Left Outs | [27] |
1989 | The Party in the Lift | [27] |
1990 | Take a Good Look | [27] |
1991 | The Dream Palace | [27] |
1992 | The Suitcase Kid | [28] |
1992 | Video Rose | [27] |
1993 | Deep Blue | [27] |
1993 | The Mum Minder | [27] |
1994 | The Bed and Breakfast Star | [29] |
1995 | The Dinosaur's Packed Lunch | [27] |
1995 | Double Act | [27] |
1995 | Jimmy Jelly | [27] |
1995 | Love from Katy | [27] |
1995 | My Brother Bernadette | [30] |
1995 | Sophie's Secret Diary | [27] |
1996 | Bad Girls | [31] |
1996 | Beauty and the Beast | [27] |
1996 | Mr. Cool | [27] |
1997 | The Lottie Project | [32] |
1997 | The Monster Story-Teller | [33] |
1998 | Rapunzel | [27] |
1999 | The Illustrated Mum | [34] |
1999 | Monster Eyeballs | [27] |
2000 | Lizzie Zipmouth | [35] |
2000 | Vicky Angel | [36] |
2001 | The Cat Mummy | [27] |
2001 | Dustbin Baby | [27] |
2002 | Secrets | [27] |
2002 | The Worry Website | [27] |
2003 | Lola Rose | [27] |
2004 | Midnight | [37] |
2004 | Best Friends | [27] |
2004 | The Diamond Girls | [27] |
2005 | Clean Break | [38] |
2005 | Love Lessons | [39] |
2006 | Candyfloss | [40] |
2007 | Kiss | [27] |
2008 | My Sister Jodie | [41] |
2008 | Cookie | [42] |
2010 | Little Darlings | [43] |
2010 | The Longest Whale Song | [44] |
2011 | Lily Alone | [45] |
2011 | Green Glass Beads | [46] |
2012 | The Worst Thing About My Sister | [27] |
2012 | Big Day Out | [27] |
2013 | Queenie | [27] |
2012 | Four Children and It | [27] |
2014 | Paws and Whiskers | [27] |
2014 | Opal Plumstead | [27] |
2015 | The Butterfly Club | [27] |
2015 | Katy | [27] |
2016 | Rent A Bridesmaid | [27] |
2017 | Wave Me Goodbye | [27] |
2019 | Dancing the Charleston | [27] |
2020 | Love Frankie | [47] |
2021 | The Runaway Girls | [48] |
2021 | The Primrose Railway Children | [27] |
2022 | Baby Love | [49] |
2023 | Project Fairy | [50] |
2023 | The Other Edie Trimmer | [51] |
2024 | The Girl Who Wasn't There | [52] |
2024 | Star of the Show | [53] |
Year | Title | Notes | Ref. |
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2002 | The Jacqueline Wilson Quiz Book | Trivia and quiz book | [54] |
2005 | The World of Jacqueline Wilson | Information book | [55] |
2007 | Jacky Daydream | Autobiography | [56] |
2007 | Totally Jacqueline Wilson | Activity book | [57] |
2010 | My Secret Diary | Autobiography | [58] |
2011 | My Summer Holiday Journal | Journal | [59] |
2016 | The Jacqueline Wilson Colouring Book | Colouring book | [60] |
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The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three-quarters of a million votes were received from the British public to find the nation's best-loved novel. The year-long survey was the biggest single test of public reading taste to date, and culminated with several programmes hosted by celebrities, advocating their favourite books.
Dame Jacqueline Wilson is an English novelist known for her popular children's literature. Her novels have been notable for tackling realistic topics such as adoption and divorce without alienating her large readership. Since her debut novel in 1969, Wilson has written over 100 books.
The Story of Tracy Beaker is a British children's book first published in 1991, written by Jacqueline Wilson and illustrated by Nick Sharratt.
Tracy Beaker is a fictional character and the lead role of the Tracy Beaker franchise. After first appearing as the main character in Jacqueline Wilson's 1991 book The Story of Tracy Beaker, she appeared in the children's television drama of the same name, portrayed by Dani Harmer, and its sequel series Tracy Beaker Returns, as well as numerous spin-offs, Jacqueline Wilson books, a play and a video game. Harmer reprised her role as Tracy in the 2021 television series My Mum Tracy Beaker followed by The Beaker Girls.
Tracy-Ann Oberman is an English actress, playwright and narrator. She is known for roles including Chrissie Watts in the BBC soap opera EastEnders and Valerie Lewis or "Auntie Val" in the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner (2011–2020).
Danielle Jane Harmer is an English actress, television personality, and former singer. She is best known for her lead role as Tracy Beaker in the CBBC series The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002–2006), Tracy Beaker Returns (2010–2012), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA in 2010, The Tracy Beaker Survival Files (2011–2012), My Mum Tracy Beaker (2021), and The Beaker Girls (2021–2023).
Lisa Jacqueline Coleman is an English actress best known for her television roles as Jude Korcanik in Casualty (1994–1997) and Cam Lawson in The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002–2005). Coleman reprised the role in Tracy Beaker Returns (2010–2012), My Mum Tracy Beaker (2021) and The Beaker Girls (2021–2023).
Nick Sharratt is a British author and illustrator of children's books, whose work is split between illustrating for writers, most notably Jacqueline Wilson from 1991 to 2021, and Jeremy Strong, but also Giles Andreae, Julia Donaldson and Michael Rosen. He was chosen to be the official illustrator for World Book Day 2006, and has illustrated around 250 books, including over 50 books by Wilson, among them The Lottie Project, Little Darlings and The Story of Tracy Beaker which was the most borrowed library book in the UK for the first decade of the 21st century. The books on which Sharratt and Wilson have collaborated have sold more than 40 million copies in the UK and sales of picture books illustrated by Sharratt exceed 10 million.
The Story of Tracy Beaker is a British television programme series adapted from the book of the same name by Jacqueline Wilson. It ran on CBBC for five series, from January 2002 to December 2005 and also contained a feature-length episode, Tracy Beaker: The Movie of Me, broadcast in February 2004, as well as a week of interactive episodes for Children in Need. The theme song was written and produced by Brian Harris and Nigel Lowis and performed by Keisha White.
Montanna Shakira Thompson is an English actress. She is known for her role as Justine Littlewood in the CBBC children's series The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002–2006). Thompson has reprised her role as Justine in Tracy Beaker Returns (2012), My Mum Tracy Beaker (2021) and The Beaker Girls (2021–2023).
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Ruth Katrin Gemmell is an English actress. She starred in the film Fever Pitch in 1997 which was followed by supporting roles in television series EastEnders, Casualty, Home Fires and Penny Dreadful. She has played Carly Beaker, the mother of the title character in the Tracy Beaker franchise since 2004. In 2020, she began playing Violet, Dowager Viscountess Bridgerton in the Netflix series Bridgerton.
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Amy-Leigh Hickman is an English actress. Hickman made her television debut as Carmen Howle in the CBBC series Tracy Beaker Returns, a role she reprised in the sequel series The Dumping Ground. She then went onto appear as Linzi Bragg in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, before being cast as Nasreen Paracha in the Channel 4 drama Ackley Bridge, a role for which she won the Actor award for at the RTS Yorkshire Awards. Her other roles include Ester Kamali in Strike Back (2013), Sia Marshall in Safe (2018), Mimi Saunders in Our Girl (2020) and Bethany in Innocent (2021). Hickman also stars in the fourth series of the Netflix drama You (2023).
The Story of Tracy Beaker is a British children's drama media franchise that focuses on the lives and experiences of young people and their care workers in care. The franchise began with the publication of The Story of Tracy Beaker on 14 February 1991. Since then, the franchise has had six further books, three television series and their spin-offs, a television movie, a Children In Need special, a musical and two magazine collections. The Story of Tracy Beaker merchandise has also been released.
My Mum Tracy Beaker is a British children's television miniseries that premiered on CBBC and BBC iPlayer on 12 February 2021. The show was aired the week after The Dumping Ground's eighth series concluded. The series follows on from the events of its predecessors, The Story of Tracy Beaker, Tracy Beaker Returns and The Dumping Ground. My Mum Tracy Beaker saw Dani Harmer reprise her role as Tracy Beaker and included original cast members Lisa Coleman, Ruth Gemmell and Montanna Thompson, as well as new cast members Emma Maggie Davies and Jordan Duvigneau.
The Beaker Girls is a British children's television series that premiered on CBBC and BBC iPlayer on 13 December 2021. The series follows on from the events of its predecessors, The Story of Tracy Beaker, Tracy Beaker Returns, The Dumping Ground and My Mum Tracy Beaker. It sees Dani Harmer reprise her role as Tracy Beaker and Emma Maggie Davies return as her daughter Jess. Lisa Coleman and Montanna Thompson also returned, as well as several cast members from My Mum Tracy Beaker. In August 2022, Dani Harmer posted on her Instagram that filming for the second series had finished. The BBC confirmed that Series 2 would be the final series of the My Mum Tracy Beaker/Beaker Girls trilogy, at least for now. It began airing on 13 January 2023 and concluded on 31 March.
Nisha K Nayar is a British actress. After coming to prominence in the 1993 film Bhaji on the Beach, she had starring roles as Debra Kumar in the film Out of Hours in 1998 and as Elaine "the Pain" Boyak in the CBBC series The Story of Tracy Beaker from 2002 to 2005. She also appeared as Joyce Hammond in the ITV crime drama Rose and Maloney between 2004 and 2005 and starred as Fran Keeley in the Channel 4 drama Before We Die in 2021.
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