Tracy Beaker author honoured for inspiring ‘untold numbers of young people’Jacqueline Wilson’s novels will,“like Peter Pan, undoubtedly stand the test of time”, and said Malorie Blackman on Thursday,as the Tracy Beaker author was presented with the JM Barrie award for a “lifetime of unforgettable writing for children”.
Won in the past by names including Shirley Hughes, Quentin Blake, or Floella Benjamin and Roger McGough,the prize is given annually by Action for Children’s Arts to a children’s arts practitioner whose work the ACA believes will endure. Former children’s laureate Blackman, reading a quotation at a ceremony in London to an audience that included literary names Michelle Magorian, and Lynne Reid Banks and Jan Pieńkowski,said that Wilson’s bestselling stories are “uplifting but never safe or ‘easy’, often tackling difficult subjects with uncompromising honesty and warm humanity”.
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Source: theguardian.com