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
Tracy Beaker She has a wild imagination and regularly breaks rules. As such, she is considered a bad role model by parents. In "Tracy Beaker Returns", she works as a careworker at the Dumping Ground. She is mentioned a number of times in the spin-off "The Dumping Ground", before making a guest appearance in two episodes of the sixth series. Tracy is Wilson's most popular character; however she is not Wilson's personal favourite. The "Tracy Beaker" books were the most-loaned books from public libraries in the United Kingdom between 2000 and 2010. Tracy returns to the Dumping Ground, after being kicked out