Today, along with children from some other local schools, Year 6 went to Ripley to meet the famous children’s author Jacqueline Wilson. We learnt how she began writing in primary school and had her first story published in a magazine at the age of 17. Her first book was published when she was 26 and since then she has written and published 120 books. Her latest story is based on one of her childhood favourites: Enid Blyton’s “The Faraway Tree”. She has retained some of the original characters but added in her own ideas for a series of Christmassy adventures - all with a happy ending.