Jacqueline Wilson

We are THRILLED to be welcoming the star of children's fiction and former Children's Laureate, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, to Ely for her latest book, Project Fairy. The highlight of your October half term - and you can even bring along your adult for free.

Project Fairy is magical, captivating story about fairies, families and friendship.

Mab’s mum is obsessed with fairies - she even named Mab after the Fairy Queen! Their flat is full of fairy ornaments, tiny fairy furniture and they’ve even got fairy lights in the toilet. Mab doesn’t quite get it, but she knows that fairies make her mum happy, especially after Dad left.

When Mab comes into school with a new fairy dress on her birthday, her teacher gives her a book all about Victorian fairies. She reads it with her mum and her little brother Robin, and she’s surprised to see the drawings inside are nothing like the sweet fairies she imagined.

But the biggest surprise of all is a tiny thing that tumbles out of the pages of the book…

Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. She is now one of Britain's bestselling and most beloved children's authors. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. More than forty million copies of her books have been sold.