| Jacqueline Wilson - New Children's Laureate! - 26th May 2005 |
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Jacqueline
Wilson has been chosen as the next children's Laureate for 2005-2007. |
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Jacqueline
Wilson and her award-winning books |
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| Jacqueline seems a worthy choice she has been on countless shortlists and won many awards including the Smarties Prize and the Children's Book Award. The Illustrated Mum won the Guardian Fiction Award, The Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year in 1999. Not to mention, Jacqueline was also recently announced as the most borrowed author in UK libraries for the second year running. | |||
| Jacqueline's classic stories have also made their place on the stage and screen, with stage adaptations of Double Act, Midnight and Bad Girls. TV adaptations of her "Girls" sereis have been successful both here and the US where as The Illustrated Mum starring Michelle Collins was broadcast to great acclaim on Channel 4 and has been awarded an EMMY and two BAFTAS. More recently Jacqueline received a Nibbie for services to bookselling and in 2002 she was awarded an OBE for services to literacy. | |||
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The
role of Children's Laureate is awarded once every two years to an
eminent British author or illustrator to mark a lifetime's contribution
to excellence. The appointment recognises and highlights the importance
of exceptional children's authors in creating the readers of tomorow. The illustrator Quentin Blake was the first Children's Laureate from 1999-2002, followed by author Anne Fine from 2001-2003. Michael Morpurgo has been the most recent Laureate from 2003-2005 who will pass the honour onto Jacqueline for the next two years. Ottakar's Bookstores has recently become the new sponsor for the Children's Laureate for the next two years, along with the DCMS who fund the £10,000 bursary. This years selection panel included: Professor Kim Reynolds of Newcastle University, James Kerr of Seven Stories The Ccentre for Children's Books, Sharon Sperling, chair of Youth Libraries Group, John Mullan, senior lecturer at UCL and Nicolette Jones, writer on children's literature and chair of the panel. |
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