SuitabookThe Lottie Project
Jacqueline Wilson
- Reading
- Read together at a relaxed pace, pausing after Charlie introduces Lottie to compare what Charlie knows with what she is imagining about Lottie’s life.
- Themes
- Charlie’s project and Lottie’s life: Charlie creates a diary project about Lottie, an eleven-year-old who works as a nursery maid in Victorian times. The two girls’ situations are brought together through Charlie’s project, but the wider treatment of Victorian life is not clear.
- Charlie’s family worries: Charlie thinks Lottie might know how to deal with her mother’s boyfriend and his son, and worries that she has handled things badly. Charlie’s account signals concern and uncertainty; it does not establish what happened or how the family relationships are portrayed overall.
- Worth knowing
- Charlie speaks negatively about her mother’s boyfriend and worries she has handled the situation badly; the extent and resolution of this family tension are unclear.