Tracy is a 10 year old girl who lives in a foster center. She tackles many adventures with her ridiculously cheeky and naughty attitude. Wilson has really brought Tracy to life with her input of realistic journals written in the perspective of Tracy. Tracy becomes loved by the audience as she begins her heart wrenching quest abut identifying her real mum and surmising to the reality that she does not want to be in Tracy's life anymore. This story Wilson has written for the years 9-11 range of young girls who love a sense of adventure and humour.
The book is set out in an intriguing, unique way. Wilson has begun the story with Tracy writing a twenty page biography about herself. This incredible introduction to the story allows the reader to readily engage within the story before it actually properly begins. The way the illustrations by Nick Sharratt are so simplistic, yet so amazing and intriguing allows the reader to wander away from reading the text of the book and reading the images and becoming indulged within the crazy, unique life of Tracy Beaker.
The unique nature of Tracy's life as a foster child is something that many children who may read the book will not experience themselves, so Wilson has allowed the readers to see this experience through Tracy's troubled yet adventurous life.
The book was so incredibly popular in Britain that it became a television series (Where the story was brought to the small screen) which lasted two series, which resulted in a musical titled 'Tracy Beaker Gets Real', followed by a magazine series for young girls called 'Totally Tracy'. Wilson created an empire with this novel and empowered many young girls with her feisty, cheeky character, Tracy Beaker.
By Emma Windebank
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