Tracy Beaker PC. The game, described as "bookish", involves reading large portions of text to make choices for the character. Similar to Wilson's other characters, Tracy Beaker is a child from a difficult background, dealing with her issues in a cynical manner and with lots of yelling. The character elicits strong feelings from both children and parents and, as she struggles to come to terms with her situation, she regularly breaks rules. Her fanbase is primarily girls between 8 and 14, as 90% of those who turn up to Jaqueline Wilson's book signings are in that group. However, the books are also
Helen Cresswell 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