Tracy Beaker is back … as a single mum fighting to make ends meet

It has been 27 years since Jacqueline Wilson, then a little-known children’s author, got together with Nick Sharratt, a young illustrator, and conceived one of the most outrageous characters in children’s literature: Tracy Beaker, the feistiest, funniest 10-year-old ever raised in the dumping ground of a care home.

Now Tracy is back, in a new illustrated book set on a rough housing estate in modern-day London – and this time Tracy is a mother with a challenging nine-year-old daughter of her own.

In her first interview about the forthcoming book, My Mum Tracy Beaker, Wilson told the Observer she came up with the idea after seeing mothers clutching copies of The Story of Tracy Beaker they had read as 10-year-olds, and now encouraging their own daughters to read it. “It’s stimulating to think about how people develop as they get older,” she said. “Tracy has been a character that’s haunted me. She’s the sort of person who sticks in your mind.


Source: theguardian