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If you could be any Jacqueline Wilson character who would you be?
Hello, Ms. Wilson!
I seriously LOVE your books. I've read all of them except for the Girls series and the love ones and the newer ones, since I live in America even though I'm English, but I can't get them here. I reread and reread and reread and reread your books so much. I'm a member of your fan club. You are an AMAZING writer. I have the same writing style as you. I could go on and on and on about how much I love your books, but you probably want to know whether I'm a stalker or not. So I'll write about me.
My name is Zoe (pronounced zoe-ee, the computer doesn't have umlauts [the 2 dots over the e]), but my full name is Zoe Hannah Campagnolo Goldenfeld. I read a TON and read probably nearly 15-20 books a week. I want to be an archeologist or a marine biologist, but the thing I'm best at and what I enjoy the most is writing, so hopefully I'll do that. I love tigers and gulper eels and generally any deep sea creature. I'm the weirdest girl in my class. I'm bad at sports but I used to take Tae Kwon Do, but I had to quit because I didn't have enough time. I like Chinese language and food. (I take Chinese class at school.) I'm in 5th grade. I like eating, as well, but I'm still the smallest and probably thinnest girl in my class though I'm in a growth spurt. I'm growing out of clothes, but I'm still shortest in my class, which is pretty depressing. I have hypercalcemia which is where my kidneys take out my calcium or something, so I have to take different medicenes in the morning which is annoying and they make me pee a lot, which annoys my teachers. Espiecially Mr. Clark, our gym teacher. I love The Beatles, Wings, and Queen, but I don't listen to modern music.
I live in Illinois, and my family is possibly the weirdest family in the town. My dad is a physicist but he acts like a five-year-old a lot of the time. It's awesome. His favorite animal is a walrus, and he makes up stories about the magic walrus, an accidental crime fighter. He also insists that he's a diplodocus from 65,000,000 years ago and he survived the meteorite by hiding in a volcano. He doesn't approve of video games or TV (neither do I, I think it turns your brains to mush) so we don't do any of that stuff. We have an old bunny-ear TV from before my mom and Dad were married, but Mom got sick of spending hours on the roof trying to connect to a channel so she could see the president speak, we got about 16 channels.
My sister is more normal. Her name is Zippy, short for Zipporah, and she is 14 and in high school. She is obbsessed with giant poofy prom dresses and computer science and gadgets. Not to mention texting. She texts all day long, constantly. She recently got a Zune and has been stroking it and insisting that it's beautiful and so skinny and beautiful and did she mention it's very thin? A couple years ago, she tried to catch the toothfairy by putting her tooth in a rodent trap-cage thing. We don't believe in killing our mice, so we have a cage trap where you put peanuts in it and the mouse comes in and the door closes and in the morning we release it into the backyard. Anyway, her trap didn't work. The toothfairy didn't give her a book, like we do in our family instead of money, it stole her library book. It was hilarious.
My mom is the normalist in our family. She paints and there are usually a dozen animals following her around and worshipping her. She used to be a science teacher, but she had to quit because Grandma Jane(her Mom, my Dad's mom is in England where he grew up, but she came from Czechoslovakia before Germany invaded and she married Jack Goldenfeld, my grandad called Papa who died a long time ago from Russo-Poland. Were Jewish.) moved to a retirement home near us and then got ill and you know what happened next. I don't want to talk about it. Thats my family. We're much weirder and we have way better, funnier stories, but I have to do homework some time tonight.
I emailed you partly because I need advice from a real writer on how to write. We have the same writing style. Another girl in my school, Natalie Bina, an 8th grader, wrote a book and Mrs. Binky (the secretary/nurse/lunchlady/REALLY nice person) says I'm good enough to do the same and so I'm thinking of writing one this summer. I will attach 2 of my stories. Could you please write back and if you have time and tell me what you think? Attached are my stories: I hope you like them, and bye, sadly, since my mom is asking what I've been doing that isn't my homework or piano.
From Zoe x
To Zoe,
Thank you for your lovely long letter – and the two stories. You say you love my work – well guess what, Zoe I love yours! I think you’re an exceptionally talented writer. Your stories are ultra-original, beautifully and stylishly told. You don’t need any advice whatsoever from me. You already know exactly how to tell a story. Mrs Binky is right. I shall make a note of your distinctive name and look out for your books in the future and boast that I once sent you a letter or encouragement. I always tell would-be writers to read lots, and you’re living proof that it’s very beneficial. If you ever run out of ideas (unlikely) I think you could write about you and your family, you all sound so unusual and interesting.Love from Jacqueline
Hello Jacky! I bet you get loads of emails and letters every day - it must be great to be an author! I apologise for my letter being so long. I understand if you can't reply to my letter, (but i really really hope you would!). My name's Lauren. I have middle-length brown hair and brown eyes. If you want to imagine me, imagine that but me wearing pink nail polish, a stripy top (brown, pink and white) with a hood, some jeans, no socks on, tapping away at a computer. I'm usually quite fast at typing. But for this letter i'm typing a bit more slowly, as i want to think about what i'm typing, and, you know, let my feelings out.
I'm not the kind of girl you would call a girly-girl, but i'm not a tomboy either. Some days i put a lot of effort into how i look, other days i just throw on a top and some jeans. About when i said i have no socks on, its because i'm quite fussy about socks. I don't like how they... well, 'tickle' my toes at the end. I know i shouldn't, but i don't wear socks indoors a lot. I hope you don't think of me wired. Lots of people do, and i guess i am when i type emails. Especially when i'm typing to my role model (you!). I'm more crazy than wired though. Sometimes my lips say stuff i don't want them to say. They just... say random things. I have just read what i have typed so far, and i realised i do sound quite crazy. I'm sorry about that. Anyway, i'm 10 years old, and i'm quite tall. My favourite book is Little darlings (by you of course!). Jacky, please may you help me? I'm in year 5, and i'm nervous about my 11 . REALLY nervous. I'm doing it next year sometime in October. I'm worried that i'll be sat there, while evryone else would be writing. I even had a nightmare that everyone passed. Except for me. HELP! At my school there is a girl who takes the micky out of me. She used to do it a lot, and now she does it less, but she still does it. Her best friend is a really nice girl, but still trails along behind the girl that takes the micky out of me. I don't understand - why can't the nice girl stand up to her so called best friend? I've tried talking to the nice girl about it, but she would just shrug and change the subject. I'm not sure what to do. At the start of my letter, i was thinking about putting 'Hi i'm lauren. I'm your number one fan!'. But i know everyone who writes to you says that. So i wanted to put something a little bit different. I am one of your fans of course (i think i am your number one fan) but i want to be... different. I don't blend in with the crowd. In fact, i blend out. I have friends, i know that, but i just don't feel that i fit in with all the cool kids. I'm more of a 'do well in school' kid. But i like being ME. All ME. Can you give me some tips on being an author please? I would LOVE to be one - its my absolute dream. I'm sorry if you got a bit bored with my letter after a while! Please please reply, i really hope you do! From Lauren x
To Lauren,I loved your long letter. You don’t sound a bit crazy to me. Don’t worry too much about the eleven plus exam. I’m sure you’ll pass with flying colours – but it isn’t the end of the world if you fail (I did!). I really like the way you said you don’t blend in with the crowd, you blend out. That’s a perfect way of expressing it! You’re another girl who needs no tips whatsoever when it comes to writing. Love from Jacqueline
To JackyI am your biggest fan i reckon I have read every one of your books!For guides we are doing a display at hampton court flower show. I was wondering if you would possibly come and see our display?Thanks, from Charlotte Ripley (your biggest fan)p.s. I really hope you can come and see our dispay
To Charlotte,I will definitely be going to the Hampton Court flower show. I go there every year. I shall look out for your guides display. If you see me there, say hi!Love from Jacqueline