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S12, Ep2 How to Fail: Jacqueline Wilson

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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Children's Author: What It Was Like to Be a Child?

As a children's author, do you find it easy to remember what it was like to be child? I have such vivid memories of being a child. Anme aske me what i was doing five years ago, and i draw a complete blank. But i can still remember conversations, feelings, even nightmares that i had as a child. And that is so useful, because although childhood itself has changed, and attitudes to have changed, emotions haven't changed. It's easy enough to put myself in a child's shoes when i'm writing,. Hopefully get across to children who are reading the books that you're not alone. Other people have gone through this, and it's ok, and

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