Project Fairy: Discover a brand new magical adventure from Jacqueline Wilson

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This book is absolutely beautiful, the one we have is a hardback and it has a very Jacqueline Wilson cover with the illustrations. I adored the illustrations, they made the book come alive, flowing imagination out of the book like a fairy flying. Jackie's writing style, although has evolved over the years, keeps a similar structure, such as a non traditional home life/family, characters being themselves, even though it may not appear to be the "norm". When we first see Robin's group of five-year-old friends, a girl and a boy want him for a boyfriend. I grew up on Jacqueline Wilsons stories and still enjoy them as an adult reader so I was excited to get started on this one.

Also, I didn't want to carry hate in my heart forever, and not for an author's long bibliography (not the author herself, to be clear) and works that had been a part of my childhood, and of my start in my reading life. Double Act won the prestigious Smarties Medal and the Children’s Book Award as well as being highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. I don’t like to include spoilers in any of my reviews so I will just say that I thoroughly enjoyed this book and like all the authors other works, the book managed to pull me in with the strong believable characters and plot even as an adult reader. It took me out of the reading experience noticing things like this, even though I do really like her illustrations. At least there is no sign of any abusive parent apologist BS that unfortunately plagues quite a lot of JW's books - 'The Illustrated Mum', 'Lily Alone', 'Secrets', 'The Diamond Girls', 'Love Lessons', 'The Suitcase Kid', 'Best Friends', 'The Bed and Breakfast Star', 'Little Darlings', and of course 'Opal Plumstead' (I'm still seething) - which I'm sure is unintentional, it's just something I've noticed.I kind of wish there was a mention, like a suggestion, of whether Mum was taking any kind of medication, any antidepressants, however. Jacqueline is also a great reader, and has amassed over 20,000 books, along with her famous collection of silver rings. I always take off the dust cover on hardback's I'm actively reading to keep them safe and my jaw dropped when I saw what was under it. A magical, captivating story about fairies, families and friendship from the brilliant, award-winning Jacqueline Wilson. I enjoyed the up to date references and the attempt to include themes such as mental health struggles and bullying which I believe are important to vocalise for young people who are the intended audience.

But the biggest surprise of all is a tiny thing that tumbles out of the pages of the book… A magical, captivating story about fairies, families and friendship from the brilliant, award-winning Jacqueline Wilson. The fantasy element was equally lovely, with that typical Victorian twist present in all my favourite JW books. The ending is kind of rushed, too, but perhaps an open ending, where we don't know most of the characters' fates, is realistic? Is it before British primary school years, which are for children who are about nine to twelve years old?When her dad leaves her very early and gets a new family, Mab, her brother and her mother start to feel ill. Additional note: Mab is shown to be good at playing football once - brought on by her new best boy-friend, Micky, because feminism - but it never comes up again. One of Jacqueline’s most successful and enduring creations has been the famous Tracy Beaker, who first appeared in 1991 in The Story of Tracy Beaker. It was too adorable - Rachael Dean is a fine, lovely illustrator for this type of children's lit - and I was in the mood for some lighthearted, harmless escapism (at least I hoped it would be harmless), maybe some fairy fantasy, and nostalgia. Plus there is her mother's fascination with fairies which really doesn't suit our tomboy protagonist.

Though I am sad that Nick Sharratt no longer illustrates the bright, iconic covers for JW books anymore, but I understand he has to move on to new projects and things. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Their flat is full of fairy ornaments, tiny fairy furniture and they've even got fairy lights in the toilet. In the end, I had Mab, a bundle of childhood hardships and innocence, pegged as seven or eight years old.At those times, the care system stoops in to look after the siblings, with her mother's recovery their main priority. The girls were all under Cathy's influence and ignored me completely, apart from holding their noses. Before the start of the book, she had a breakdown after Mab's dad left them, and it caused Mab and her little brother Robin to be put into care, and a foster home for a bit. As a teenager she started work for a magazine publishing company and then went on to work as a journalist on Jackie magazine (which she was told was named after her! When Mab comes into school with a new fairy dress on her birthday, her teacher gives her a book all about Victorian fairies.