Jacqueline Wilson is one of the most popular children's authors ever. She has won many of the UK's top children's book awards including The Gold Smarties Prize, The Sheffield Children's Book Award, the Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Prize and Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal. Many of her books have also been adapted for TV, stage and radio. In 2008, Jacqueline was made a Dame of the British Empire.