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‘It was always children’s books I wanted to write.'

2 September 2002

'It was always children's books I wanted to write.'

'It was always children's books I wanted to write. As I was growing up, I loved children's books, but I couldn't help thinking that the world wasn't really that neat. So I aimed to inject a touch more realism. I've had several offers to write books for adults but I've turned them all down.'

Children's writer Jacqueline Wilson, in the London Independent on Sunday