Jacqueline Wilson also made the 1999 Whitbread Awards shortlist. "The Story of Tracy Beaker" won the 2002 Blue Peter People's Choice Award. "Girls in Tears" was the Children's Book of the Year at the 2003 British Book Awards. Two of her books were "Highly Commended" runners-up for the annual Carnegie Medal: "The Story of Tracy Beaker" (1991) and "Double Act" (1995). In June 2002, Wilson was appointed an OBE for services to literacy in schools and from 2005 to 2007 she served as the fourth Children's Laureate. In that role Wilson urged parents and child-care providers to continue reading aloud to children
The Story of the Jews (book) described it as "immensely erudite – and compulsively readable" and said: "The importance of Schama’s book is that it forces the reader to think about how the long and shameful legacy of Christian hatred for Jews is reworked in 'enlightened' society". The Story of the Jews (book) The Story of the Jews is a book by British historian Simon Schama, which is being published in three volumes. The first volume, entitled "Finding the Words 1000BCE – 1492CE", was published in the United Kingdom by Bodley Head in September 2013. The second volume, entitled "Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900",