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
Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues Baseball Museum lists it as a secondary resource in its lesson on Negro Leagues baseball vocabulary. "Black Diamonds" is a 1994 CCBC Choice, a 1994 NCTE Kaleidoscope book, and received a 1997 Coretta Scott King Award author honor. Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues is a 1994 book by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack. It tells the history African-American and Latin American involvement with baseball in the United States. "BookList", in its review of "Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues", wrote "This book goes far beyond