There are writing competitions which encourage children to participate and win prizes. Any child will be curious about links like “The Gossip”, “Storyland”, or a chance to meet Hetty in the “Foundling Hospital.” Wilson supports young aspiring authors by giving them opportunities to materialise their ideas. She might be meeting excited fans in Norwich one day and answering questions on a CBBC Newsround on another. Blessed with abundant energy, she gives talks about "Hetty Feather" at the Foundling Museum every year, appears for several book readings and has been profiled and interviewed by leading media sources including BBC, The Telegraph and The Guardian over her career. We learn that she serves as Chancellor of Roehampton University, promotes literacy in schools, and saw her proudest moment when she introduced the Queen to all her fellow authors on the day she was celebrating her 80th birthday. Her website is a cheerful and inviting micro-world featuring her biography, fan mail, a scrapbook, information about her books and a calendar of important events. Jacqueline Wilson has the uncanny knack for placing herself at center stage without stealing the limelight from the stars of her books, like "Tracy Beaker" or "Hetty Feather". They experience vulnerability and attraction when a teacher shows kindness because they have witnessed only violence and anger from a father. The children cope with disappointments such as when a parent fails to turn up to a Christmas play. In "The Bed and Breakfast", we see a family almost permanently homeless. In "The Illustrated Mum", the tattooed mother suffers from manic depression. The issues which Wilson’s protagonists grapple with are serious. She wanted to empower such children by giving them a chance to see themselves in her books. Wilson wanted to place herself, by reflecting “real children’s real lives.” She thought about all those children who don’t live with their natural parents, or live in families where no one works, or those who have a disability. Jacqueline Wilson yearned for authentic stories about children to be articulated in a sparkling yet genuine voice. Jacqueline Wilson wanted, as we learn from The Scotsman, to encourage children to read about children who were in some ways different from themselves, and find a way to accept them and take them into their hearts.
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