Jacqueline Wilson Fact Cards - Teaching Ideas€¦ · Jacqueline Aitken was born in Bath on 17th December 1945. She became Jacqueline Wilson when she got married in 1965. When she
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Jacqueline had a difficult time at school when she started because she was ill quite a lot. She had measles and whooping cough and she had to have lots of time off school.
At breaktimes when Jacqueline was young, she used to make up and act out games. But her friends sometimes found them very strange and couldn’t join in!
The company who bought Jacqueline’s stories launched a new magazine for teenage girls and they named it after her. It was called ‘Jackie’ (which is what her friends called her).
Jacqueline first started writing books for adults but publishers didn’t want to sell them. When she had a daughter, Jacqueline wrote a children’s story called 'Ricky’s Birthday' which became her first published book.
Jacqueline starts her day by swimming 50 lengths of her local pool so that she can exercise and have some time to think.
As well as writing, Jacqueline visits schools, gives talks at bookshops, goes to meetings and opens her readers’ letters (she gets over 200 each week!).