Who is the author of the children's book 'The Story of Tracy Beaker'?
"the show on 3 and 4th December 2018. The Story of Tracy Beaker (TV series) The Story of Tracy Beaker (also known as Tracy Beaker or TSOTB) is a British television programme adapted from the book of the same name by Jacqueline Wilson. It ran on CBBC for five series, from 2002 to 2005 and also contained a feature-length episode, ""Tracy Beaker's Movie of Me"", broadcast in 2004, as well as a week of interactive episodes for Children in Need. The theme song was written and performed by Keisha White. Many of the episodes have been released on official DVD"
"The Story of Tracy Beaker (franchise) The Story of Tracy Beaker is a British children's drama media franchise that focuses on the lives and experiences of young people and their care workers in care. The franchise began with the publication of ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" on 14 February 1991. Since then, the franchise has had four further books and a book to be published in 2018, three television series and their spin-offs, a television movie, a Children In Need special, a musical and two magazine collections. ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" merchandise has also been released. The Story of"
"Peter badge. Nick Sharratt's work has been exhibited in Britain, Italy, Japan and U.S. Nick Sharratt Nick Sharratt (born August 9, 1962) is a British illustrator and author of children's books, and was chosen to be the Official Illustrator for World Book Day 2006. Sharratt has illustrated around 250 books, including over 50 books by award-winning author Jacqueline Wilson, among them ""The Lottie Project"", ""Little Darlings"" and ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" which was the most borrowed library book in the UK for the first decade of this century. The books on which they have collaborated have sold more than"
"as ""playing Little Miss Innocent"" in front of teachers but can be as daring as the protagonist. Mr. Hatherway: The reception class teacher at Tracy's school. He is the opposite of Mrs. Bagley, and Tracy seems to like him, and regrets that he'll never be her teacher. Trevor: A young child whom Tracy meets when Mr. Hatherway has to bring him out of class due to a nosebleed. They become friends at the end of the book. The Dare Game The Dare Game also known as I Dare You, Tracy Beaker is a children's novel written by Jacqueline Wilson and"
"much to her upset. Originally introduced in the book ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"", to date the character has appeared in two further books, ""The Dare Game"" and ""Starring Tracy Beaker"". She has also appeared in Red Nose Day special called ""Tracy Beaker's Thumping Heart"". In 2002, the BBC made a children's series based on the books, ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"", starring Dani Harmer as Tracy. The programme ran for five series on CBBC and included a one-off feature-length movie, ""Tracy Beaker's Movie of Me"". Harmer first took on the role at the age of 12 and has maintained"
"with her father, a taxi driver, and her mother, a school secretary. Abby Rakic-Platt Abby Rakic-Platt (born 3 May 1993) is a British actress best known for her performances in the television series ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" on the children's channel CBBC as Jackie Hopper. She appeared in a 2010 Sainsbury's Christmas advert. She attended Highams Park School and Grey Coat Hospital secondary school, both in London, England, and has four younger siblings, Maddie, Jaime and Eloise Rakic-Platt who are also actresses. Rakic-Platt's maternal grandfather is from Yugoslavia. Rakic-Platt was trained at the Anna Scher Theatre School, attending from"
"Nick Sharratt Nick Sharratt (born August 9, 1962) is a British illustrator and author of children's books, and was chosen to be the Official Illustrator for World Book Day 2006. Sharratt has illustrated around 250 books, including over 50 books by award-winning author Jacqueline Wilson, among them ""The Lottie Project"", ""Little Darlings"" and ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" which was the most borrowed library book in the UK for the first decade of this century. The books on which they have collaborated have sold more than 40 million copies in the UK and sales of picture books illustrated by Nick"
"Tracy Beaker franchise currently has five books, with a sixth book to be released in 2018. The books are The Story of Tracy Beaker, The Dare Game, Starring Tracy Beaker, Tracy Beaker's Thumping Heart and Ask Tracy Beaker and Friends. The Story of Tracy Beaker also had two magazine collections. ""Totally Tracy Beaker"" came with free art and craft supplies, which the reader collected, and the second magazine released, ""The Story of Tracy Beaker: The DVD collection"", came with a DVD with episodes from the series and reader would eventually have all five series. The BBC adapted the book for"
"Cam, Gemma Page played social worker Elaine, and Andy Steed played Peter. The Story of Tracy Beaker (franchise) The Story of Tracy Beaker is a British children's drama media franchise that focuses on the lives and experiences of young people and their care workers in care. The franchise began with the publication of ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" on 14 February 1991. Since then, the franchise has had four further books and a book to be published in 2018, three television series and their spin-offs, a television movie, a Children In Need special, a musical and two magazine collections. ""The"
"were replaced by Dan Anthony, Simon Nicholson, Holly Lyons, Marvin Close and Ariane Sherine. Returning from writing episodes of series 1 and series 2 are Morris, Laura Summers, Othniel Smith and Andy Walker while returning from writing episodes of only series 2 are Gary Parker, Abigal Abben-Mensah and Tracy Brabin. Morris wrote five episodes; Summers and Parker wrote four episodes each; Smith, Anthony, Lyons and Close wrote two episodes each; and Nicholson, Mensah, Walker, Brabin and Sherine wrote one episode each. The Story of Tracy Beaker (series 3) The third series of the British children's chtelevision series ""The Story of"
"on reading lists for schools, so boys will be involved in the classroom. ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" has been UK libraries' most-loaned book between 2000 and 2010. In its description of Tracy, an article for the ""Herald Scotland"" states: ""Though her life is bleak, Tracy is funny, imaginative, articulate and hopeful, like all Wilson's heroines."" A ""Liverpool Echo"" article describes Tracy as ""a heroinea cult character who could be played by any actress."" Winifred Robinson, writing in a ""Daily Mail"" editorial, criticised the character and suggested that behaviour such as her outbursts were influencing children to act in a"
"her education from Pratt and holds a Master of Fine Arts. Books by Beverly Ceary ""Henry Huggins"" ""Henry and Beezus"" ""Henry and Ribsy"" ""Henry and the Paper Route"" ""Henry and the Clubhouse"" ""Mich and Amy"" ""Muggie Maggie"" ""Socks"" ""Ribsy"" ""Emily's Runaway Imagination"" ""Otis Spofford"" Tracy Dockray Tracy Dockray (born 1962) is an American artist. She illustrated the current Harper Collins editions of Beverly Cleary's children's novels. Tracy Dockray spent her early years growing up on the plains of Texas where she enjoyed reading and a large menagerie of pets. She moved to New York where she attained an MFA from"
"Wilson was 19. Two years later, they had a daughter, Emma. They divorced in 2004. When Wilson focused on writing, she completed a few crime fiction novels before dedicating herself to children's books. At the age of 40, she took A-level English and earned a grade A. She had mixed success with about 40 books before the breakthrough to fame in 1991 with ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"", published by Doubleday. Two decades later, Wilson lives in a Victorian villa in Kingston upon Thames. It is filled with books; her library of some 15,000 books extends into the outbuilding at"
"Abby Rakic-Platt Abby Rakic-Platt (born 3 May 1993) is a British actress best known for her performances in the television series ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" on the children's channel CBBC as Jackie Hopper. She appeared in a 2010 Sainsbury's Christmas advert. She attended Highams Park School and Grey Coat Hospital secondary school, both in London, England, and has four younger siblings, Maddie, Jaime and Eloise Rakic-Platt who are also actresses. Rakic-Platt's maternal grandfather is from Yugoslavia. Rakic-Platt was trained at the Anna Scher Theatre School, attending from the age of 7 or 8 to 18. Rakic-Platt lives in Walthamstow"
"it for 10 years. The character returned for an additional three series of ""Tracy Beaker Returns"", in which an adult Tracy Beaker helps a new generation of kids at the Dumping Ground. The character has also appeared in a stage adaptation of the book, ""Tracy Beaker Gets Real"", starring Sarah Churm as Tracy. It was written by Mary Morris, one of the writers of the TV series. Like the television series, the set used elements of cartoon themes, similar to the illustrations in the books. In 2009, Tracy Beaker became a video game character in """" on Nintendo DS and"
"The Story of Tracy Beaker (series 3) The third series of the British children's chtelevision series ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" began broadcasting on 25 September 2003 on CBBC and ended on 1 April 2004. The series follows the lives of the children living in the fictional children's care home of Stowey House, nicknamed by them ""The Dumping Ground"". It consists of twenty-six, fifteen-minute episodes. It is the 3rd series in The Story of Tracy Beaker franchise. Dani Harmer (Tracy Beaker), Montanna Thompson (Justine Littlewood), Nisha Nayar (Elaine Boyak), Clive Rowe (Duke Ellington), Lisa Coleman (Cam Lawson), Ciaran Joyce, Ben"
"includes three sequels and has been adapted into four CBBC television series: """"The Story of Tracy Beaker"", ""Tracy Beaker Returns"", ""The Dumping Ground"", and ""The Tracy Beaker Survival Files"". She has written more than a hundred books over the course of her career. Jacqueline Aitken was born in Bath, Somerset, England in 1945. Her father was a civil servant; her mother was an antiques dealer. Jacqueline spent most of her childhood in Kingston upon Thames, where she went to Latchmere Primary School. She particularly enjoyed books by Noel Streatfeild, as well as American classics like ""Little Women"" and ""What Katy"
"daughter of Ann Beach (1938–2017) and Francis Coleman (1924–2008). Lisa Coleman (actress) Lisa Jacqueline Coleman (born 10 July 1970) is an English actress and volunteer occupational therapist, known for her television roles as Jude Korcanik in ""Casualty"" (1994–97) and Cam Lawson in ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" (2002–05) and ""Tracy Beaker Returns"" (2010–12). Coleman was born in Hammersmith, London and attended Anna Scher Theatre School at age six, going on to complete secondary education and A-levels. Having worked in television at various times since the early 1980s, in the mid-1990s she began a Bachelor's degree in Psychology with the UK"
"The Story of Tracy Beaker (series 2) The second series of the British children's television series ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" began broadcasting on 7 January 2003 on CBBC and ended on 3 April 2003. The series follows the lives of the children living in the fictional children's care home of Stowey House, nicknamed by them ""The Dumping Ground"". It consists of twenty-six, fifteen-minute episodes. It is the second series in The Story of Tracy Beaker franchise. Dani Harmer (Tracy Beaker), Montanna Thompson (Justine Littlewood), Chelsie Padley (Louise Govern), Rochelle Gadd (Adele Azupadi), Nisha Nayar (Elaine Boyak), Clive Rowe (Duke),"
"Tracy Beaker, resident of The Dumping Ground."" (Wilson introduced Beaker in 1991 and ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" on television ran from 2002 to 2006.) Daughter Caroline believed that ""Winter of the Birds"" (1976) had been her mother's own favourite work. Cresswell once explained, ""I write a title, then set out to find where that particular road will take me ..."", and Caroline recalled, ""Mum never plotted her books, she just wrote."" In 1991 the BBC aired a six-part TV series, ""Five Children And It"", using Cresswell's script adaptation of the 1902 classic by E. Nesbit. Next year Cresswell's print"
"series 2. Ian Carrey, Gary Parker, Rob Gittins, Tracy Brabin, Lucy Flannery, Abigal Abben Mensah and writing duo, Sam Bain & Jesse Armstrong replaced those who had left. Returning from series 1 is Mary Morris, Laura Summers, Othniel Smith and Andy Walker. Morris and Summers wrote five episodes each; Smith wrote four episodes; Walker, Parker and duo, Bain & Armstrong wrote two episodes; Carney, Gittins, Brabin, Flannery and Mensah all wrote one episode each. Parker and Gittins wrote an episode together as well. The Story of Tracy Beaker (series 2) The second series of the British children's television series ""The"
"Betsy Byars Betsy Cromer Byars (born August 7, 1928) is an American author of children's books. Her novel ""Summer of the Swans"" won the 1971 Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award in category Children's Fiction for ""The Night Swimmers"" (1980) and an Edgar Award for ""Wanted ... Mud Blossom"" (1991). Byars has been called ""one of the ten best writers for children in the world"" by Nancy Chambers, editor of the British literary journal ""Signal"", and in 1987 Byars received the Regina Medal for lifetime achievement from the Catholic Library Association. Due to the popularity of"
"between 2010 and 2012. The ""Tracy Beaker Returns"" production team won the British Academy Children's Awards for Best Drama in 2010, and earned further nominations in both 2011 and 2012. Hardiman was approached to direct the series by producer Gina Cronk — who like Hardiman, had never worked on the production of a children's drama series. In 2010, discussing how the ""Tracy Beaker Returns"" team approached ""a narrative specifically for children"" Hardiman noted that the production team wanted to take on ""serious subjects [and] make a kind of """"Play for Today"""" for children, leavened with some humour"". Subsequently, Hardiman directed"
"The Story of Tracy Beaker (series 1) The first series of the British children's television series ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" began broadcasting on 8 January 2002 on CBBC and ended on 4 April 2002. The series follows the lives of the children living in the fictional children's care home of Stowey House, nicknamed by them ""The Dumping Ground"". It consists of twenty-six, fifteen-minute episodes. It is the first series in The Story of Tracy Beaker franchise. Dani Harmer plays the title character, Tracy Beaker, while Montanna Thompson plays her arch-enemy Justine Littlewood. Justine's best friend, Louise Govern, is played"
"Dan Anthony. Morris and Summers wrote four episodes each; Reeves wrote two episodes; and Nicholson, Kennedy, Gonsalves, Anthony, Brabin, Hyde, Smith, Williams, Walker, Levy, Parker and writing duo - Gary Lawson & John Phelps wrote one episodes each. The Story of Tracy Beaker (series 4) The fourth series of the British children's television series ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" began broadcasting on 7 October 2004 on CBBC and ended on 5 April 2005. The series follows the lives of the children living in the fictional children's care home of Cliffside, nicknamed by them ""The Dumping Ground"". It consists of twenty-two,"
"Kimberly Willis Holt Kimberly Willis Holt (born September 9, 1960) is an American writer of children's literature. She is best known for the novel ""When Zachary Beaver Came to Town"", which won the 1999 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature. It was adapted as a 2003 film of the same name. She was born to a US Navy chief in Pensacola, Florida, but spent most of her childhood in Forest Hill, Louisiana, which inspired her first novel, ""My Louisiana Sky"". As the child of a naval officer, Holt moved from place to place, most notably, France, Guam, and"
"Louisiana. Her experiences as a navy brat are reflected in her Piper Reed series. She lived in Amarillo, Texas for a number of years, but now resides in the Dallas, Texas area. Kimberly Willis Holt Kimberly Willis Holt (born September 9, 1960) is an American writer of children's literature. She is best known for the novel ""When Zachary Beaver Came to Town"", which won the 1999 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature. It was adapted as a 2003 film of the same name. She was born to a US Navy chief in Pensacola, Florida, but spent most of"
"- 2018 Children's Books Visual Art Books The Telly Awards: The Jackson Laboratory http://www.tellyawards.com/winners/2018/branded-content/general-not-for-profit Tiffany Laufer Tiffany Ann Laufer is an American film director, screenwriter, children's author and illustrator. Laufer studied cinematography at The American Film Institute. She wrote and directed the award-winning short film, ""The Acorn Penny"". She has written and illustrated three children's books: ""The Porch Dream"", ""Bellaboo & Colby's Colors of Summer"" and ""Bellaboo & B–Bug's Book of Counting"". The Acorn Penny was awarded First Place (Experimental Film Category) Twin Rivers Multimedia Festival May 2010. A New Partner in Research (The Jackson Laboratory) has won a Bronze"
"family makes Tracy reconsider her relationship with Cam. After recognizing how much Cam cares for her, Tracy decides to continue living with her and begins attending school regularly, though she also continues seeing Football and Alexander. Tracy Beaker: The story's main protagonist and narrator; Tracy is daring, bold and reckless. Her previous home was in a child-care house, which was nicknamed ""The Dumping Ground"" She's currently under the foster care of author Cam Lawson and aspires to be a writer too. She dislikes her school and living under Cam's simple, practical lifestyle and wishes she could wear designer clothes and"
"lives in Lexington, Kentucky with her husband Stephen. Marcia Jones (writer) Marcia Thornton Jones (born July 15, 1958) is an American writer of children's books, the author or co-author of more than 135 elementary chapter books, picture books, and mid-grade novels, including ""The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids"" series, among other works co-written with Debbie Dadey. Jones was born in Joliet, Illinois. She has been an elementary school teacher of first and third grades, computer lab, writing and reading, and Gifted & Talented. She has been a full-time writer since 1990. Her books are published by Scholastic, Tor, Dutton"
"P. J. Cowan Pricilla Jean ""P.J."" Cowan is an American author best known for her work in children's literature. Born Pricilla Jean Ball on December 2, 1933, in a log cabin in the county of Rio Grande, in Colorado Mountains, she is the author of 15 books which are available worldwide. Her works include: ""The Adventures of Neddy and Teddy Fairy"", ""What Do You Feed an Imaginary Dragon?"" and ""PJ's Bedtime Stories"". Her first book, ""Michael O'Brian and the Magic Hat"" was released in 2008. The 1930s were depression years, and there was no money for books. Cowan's mother would"
"Marcia Jones (writer) Marcia Thornton Jones (born July 15, 1958) is an American writer of children's books, the author or co-author of more than 135 elementary chapter books, picture books, and mid-grade novels, including ""The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids"" series, among other works co-written with Debbie Dadey. Jones was born in Joliet, Illinois. She has been an elementary school teacher of first and third grades, computer lab, writing and reading, and Gifted & Talented. She has been a full-time writer since 1990. Her books are published by Scholastic, Tor, Dutton (Penguin Group), Hyperion Press (Disney), and F&W. She"
"Brewer continued to write for ""Tracy Beaker"" franchise for another nine series, until the second series of ""The Dumping Ground"", which is the second spin-off of ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"". 4 episodes were repeated as part of BBC Schools strand (on BBC Two) in 2003. The Story of Tracy Beaker (series 1) The first series of the British children's television series ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" began broadcasting on 8 January 2002 on CBBC and ended on 4 April 2002. The series follows the lives of the children living in the fictional children's care home of Stowey House, nicknamed"