SuitabookJacky Daydream
Jacqueline Wilson
- Reading
- Read alongside a child who may want to pause around family relationships or loneliness. Invite them to compare the book’s childhood experiences with its photographs and illustrations, without assuming their own experiences are similar.
- Themes
- Imagination as a refuge: Jacky loves reading and writing stories, and losing herself in a new world is presented as especially meaningful to her. The book appears to value imaginative activity as an important part of Jacky’s childhood and identity.
- Childhood family experience: The book explores family relationships, friendships and loneliness, including an unpredictable father and parents’ extra-marital affairs. These experiences are included with stated delicacy, but their broader meaning or judgement is unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The family material deserves advance awareness: the book covers loneliness, an unpredictable father and parents’ extra-marital affairs.