Green Glass Beads: A Collection of Poems for Girls Award-winning author by Jacqueline Wilson (author) (UK edition)

Collected by Jacqueline Wilson, this charming treasury of poems about pretty things, best friends, families and nature reflects her much-lauded gift for pinpointing the things that young girls relate to. With verses ranging from the sweet to the thought-provoking, the gorgeously produced collection brings together classic and modern poems that girls will turn to again and again throughout their lives. Jacqueline Wilson has taken great delight in selecting and arranging her favourite poems for this book, and you can hear her voice singing through each beautiful verse, making it a truly personal collection. Full of poems to make readers laugh, smile, frown and cry, as well as poems that will stay with them for life, this is a book to delight every girl, whether a committed fan of poetry or not.

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781447205142

Publisher

Macmillan Children's Books

Date published

June 7th, 2012

Lexile measure

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Jacqueline Wilson

Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first “novel” when she was nine, filling countless Woolworths’ exercise books as she grew up. Since having her daughter, Emma, she has been writing full time.

Her insightful and emotionally challenging books not only stretch reading ability, but give young readers a glimpse into many kinds of lives. Smart girls, strong girls, bad girls, brave girls. Girls keeping their families going, girls trying to get away… Jacqueline Wilson’s written about them all! These powerful stories of plucky girls in difficult circumstances won’t fail to strike a chord.

She has written over 70 best-selling books, and several have even been adapted for TV – most famously The Story of Tracy Beaker. Her signing sessions attract huge crowds of fans and last for hours! Over 25 million copies of her books have now been sold in the UK alone.

In 2007 Jacky Daydream was published, an inspirational true story of how a shy schoolgirl became a superstar author. This was followed by My Secret Diary, a captivating account of Jacky’s teenage years.

In June 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools, and she was the Children’s Laureate from 2005-2007. She also became a Dame in December 2007.