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|pages=307
|publisher=Doubleday
|date=1 Mar March 2007
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In ''Jacky Daydream'', Jacqueline Wilson recounts her life from her earliest memories up to the time she finishes primary school after passing the eleven plus at the second attempt. Wilson, a child of the post war years, creates a fascinating picture of a child with an extremely vivid inner life and intersperses the various vignettes with the scenes they inspired in her books. The young Jacky played with dolls like April in ''Dustbin Baby'', dealt with an unpredictable father like Prue in ''Love Lessons'' and sat entrance exams like Ruby in ''Double Act''. She also imagined and wrote, imagined and wrote and imagined and wrote.
My thanks to Random House for sending the book.
Late primary and early secondary children might also enjoy [[:Category:Michael Morpurgo|Michael Morpurgo's]] [[Singing For Mrs Pettigrew]] which talks about the writing process from an autobiographical point of view and Roald Dahl's [[Boy]] about his own childhood. Older children would like David Almond's [[Counting Stars]] - more stories with an autobiographical twist. You might enjoy [[Strictly Ballroom: Tales from the Dancefloor by Diana Melly]].
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