BRILL BOOK
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The story plot of the book
April is left in a dustbin straight after her birth...
About the author of the book
Jacqueline Wilson is one of my favourite authors and she wrote this book! She has her own personal collection of over 15,000 books and I've about a thirtieth of that (500)!
About the awards and sequel for the book:
This book is not part of a series of books; it hasn't won any awards either. However, it is by a hugely popular and well-known author, Jacqueline Wilson, who has won many, many different awards including the Children's Book Award (she has won that a lot of times) and the Smarties Prize (for Double Act).
My awards for the book
I would rate this brilliant book 10/10; I really, really enjoyed this book, to prove that I really, really enjoyed this book I couldn't put it down until the very end! I would recommend it to anyone who really likes Jacqueline Wilson's books - just like me, especially older girls.
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Avoid for sensitive children!
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My daughter is 8 and we bought this book as she's enjoyed many of the others. There was nothing on it to suggest that it wasn't suitable for an 8 year old so I was horrified to find her breaking her heart and begging me to take the book away so she couldn't see it. Why? April's mother commits suicide in the bathroom. Not something a child should EVER need to read about!!!!!!!!
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Dustbin Baby
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I really enjoyed this book. I think that it is one of Jacqueline Wilson's best books.
It is about a girl called April who was found in a dustbin when she was a baby. It tells her life story and it is very sad, especially when it gets to what happened to her parents, her Mum especially. A must-read.
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Spot on as usuall for Jaqueline Wilson!!!
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Jaqueline wilson is one of the best teen authors around thanks to some of her books like this. This isn't her best book but it is still good.
The book is the main character April telling her lifestory. This is slow to get moving to the good part and when you think it's just gotten good it finishes weakly. At the end i thought what was the point of writing this if you can't even finish it properly.
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Her best book
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The enchanting style of Children's Laureate Jacqueline Wilson is not always in top form (note more recent efforts such as Clean Break) but here, in Dustbin Baby, the novel flows perfectly.
The story is so reminicent of the feelings of a teenage girl who needs her own identity, and her eventual realisation that what she has been desperately seeking is already with her, that it is spooky.
Touching, sad and ultimately uplifting, Dustbin Baby is a book you will not forget.
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