Double Act was "Highly Commended" runner up for the annual Carnegie Medal from the British Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. Ruby dreams of being an actress one day and sees an add in a paper for twins to take part in a commercial held in london, however Garnet dosent want to persue a career in showbiz, she prefers to studying. Girls keeping their families going, girls trying to get away… Jacqueline Wilson’s written about them all! Wilson is great at making realistic characters that you can quickly come to term with, giving realistic reactions to events.

After finding out that passive acceptance of their antics doesn't go very far in winning them over, she uses her numerable wits to surmise that the best way to defeat them is to divide and conquer. As Rose, a women their dad loves comes into their life, three years after their mother's death, they find it hard to digest. In 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. The Illustrated Mum won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the 1999 Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and was also shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Children’s Book Award. Wilson is an expert at creating realistic characters and is probably the closest thing you can get to actual being inside a child's mind yourself.Surprisingly, Rose is supportive, although her efforts are for nothing, Ruby plots and succeeds in them running away to London for the audition.

I always thought the point of Double Act was that the prospective step-mother, Rose, is A Nice Person After All, and that that was what the reader was supposed to discover along the way with the twins. Their dad seems to have just been taken up completely with this new Rose and quite possibly going through a mid life crisi. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The book takes the form of the twins alternately narrating the story of their life in an Accounts book. I do understand that no one could be like a mother to them, because your mother gave birth to you and knows every silly detail about you.It was very enjoyable and one that I would recommend for any girl who likes a good book, no matter what her real age is.

Close to the end of the book the story took a big turn that was very sudden but it was very satisfying. In 2002 Jacqueline was awarded the OBE for services to literacy in schools and from 2005 to 2007 she was the Children’s Laureate. It was published in 1995, co-illustrated by Sue Heap and Nick Sharratt, and it won both the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (ages 9–11 years and overall) and the Red House Children's Book Award. As I have read this book 11 times I could probaly tell you a lot about it so dont even hesitate reading this brilliant book it amazing in the way it is told and how emotianally it is told which in the end always turns out to be funny.

Como pega (bajo mi humilde opinion), el hecho de que sea una traducción fiel a los escenarios y culturas inglesas. This book again showcases Jacqueline Wilson’s talent for writing children’s books that address serious subject matter in a way that a child would connect with. But one day they see on the notice board a poster about a modelling thing so they go there on a Saturday, but there dad find's out and Garnet get sent to a boarding school and Ruby doesn't . Like writing in a diary because i like reading books in a layout of a diary, so i enjoyed reading it. This time Ruby does all the talking because she thinks that garnet will screw things up but when they get a letter from the headmistress they come to know that Garnet is selected for her writing skills which portrayed maturity.