Jacqueline Wilson is an extremely well-known and hugely popular author who served as Children's Laureate from 2005–7.
The Illustrated Mum was chosen as the British Children's Book of the Year in 1999 and was winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2000. Jacqueline has won the prestigious Smarties Prize and the Children's Book Award for
Double Act, which 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 made a Dame.