Janey is a good book!

Anyway, I'm having a bit of a clear out of my screenshots folder, and came across one about our old friend #JacquelineWilson. She was very much against age recommendations on her books.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7650238.stm

I wonder why, JACQUELINE? Worried parents won't let their 9 year olds read about your protagonist fantasising about her imaginary teenage mother being raped? Or your 10 year old protag actually fantasising about being molested by a child predator?

Edit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7273777.stm

F*** YOU, WILSON!

This woman makes me so irrationally angry!

#freakinwilson #JacquelineWilsonIsCreepy #fckjacquelinewilson #books #kidslit #childrensbooks

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Age guidance on new Wilson book

Dame Jacqueline Wilson's new book is given a 9+ age rating, despite the author's objections to the age banding practice.

This is the start of my #angrybookthread. A sort of continuation from this post.

https://autistics.life/@SilverArrows/114869238840168236

While looking up the quote for the above post, I noticed there were still a few #JacquelineWilson #books in my e-reader that I hadn't read yet.

So I picked one: Dustbin Baby, about a girl who was dumped in a bin shortly after birth. And within two chapters, the 14 year old protagonist was fantasising about her school age birth mother being raped, or at the very least, something very close to that. It's not based on anything she's heard about her birth mother, because her birth mother has never been identified. She's just concocted this story behind it herself. So far, there's not even any indication that the mother was a teenager. Yet here she is, imagining in great detail, the story of her teenage mother being raped.

What the actual frick is wrong with this woman?!

And the fact that the one-trick pony #NickSharratt illustrates the covers with childish art that appeals to under 10s. What the hell, man.

I told you this woman has a creepy obsession with the sexuality of school girls.

#fckjacquelinewilson #yafiction #teenfiction #problematicauthors