Little Stars (Hetty Feather)

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After a long train ride Hetty arrives at the southern coast and checks into an inn as 'Emerald Star'. Anyway I love this series so much and now I don't want to read any other books as I just want more books about Hetty.

Follow Hetty on her hard journey as she struggles to look after 8 year old Diamond, who just longs for a normal childhood. I absouloutly love this series, I loved it the first time I ever read it (this was a re-read) and I managed to force a few friends to read it too. Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since.He has won numerous awards for his picture books, including the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the 2001 Children's Book Award. His lurking presence is a good lesson, I think, especially for the older readers who are probably reading this independently.

certain persons we'll discuss in a sec; they're rather good parallels of each other, both institution-raised children, both servants fresh out of their respective institutions, both free spirits refusing to bow down to the society that would have them trampled underfoot if they'd let it; both harbouring a dream of performing on stage and making it true separately yet together, in a way. Either way I have heard Hetty makes a couple of appearances in a couple of newer books that take place during this similar time period. Hetty takes Diamond to visit Bignor and Flora, who's got a new friend in the show, Lucy Locket, the littlest woman in the world.

Esmeralda says that Mona's crazy for thinking that Queen Elizabeth is the best beauty, and the model pokes her tongue at Esmerelda's back. Meanwhile, Hetty struggles to understand her feelings for Bertie – and for Jem, whom she has never forgotten. And don't even get me started on the little (and not so little) things there are to love about him: literally a tap dancer; wonderful with younger children (I have to admire the way he never ever patronises dear Diamond, though it would have been silly of him to do so seeing as he's not that much older and very nearly still a child himself); takes snide comments about himself like a champ but will not keep still the second they're directed at his girls; literally knows two trades, a showbiz one and a practical one; last but not least, we stan a short king in this house, if I may use the vernacular. Decided to reread them during a reading slump, and the ending is so perfect - hetty's story being complete now makes everything happy. She acts more childish because all of her young child years had been wasted being an acrobatic child wonder in the circus.

Soon the girls are famous and after four other books, you should know, there's no stopping Hetty Feather!The Victorian era is also fleshed out throughout, and Jacqueline gives you multiple glimpses in varying locations. You feel like Hetty's life has been so busy in about the last two year of her life as she has been all over the place doing so many different things. The author describes the countryside and the scrumptious cooking there and a bawdy audience in a music hall with equal panache. I mean, speaking of marrying your much younger foster sister when you're a young child yourself and have no real understanding of the difference between platonic and romantic is one thing, but to persist in that idea as an adult. I really liked how Hetty seemed to do a full circle, from the circus, to the music hall, to her foster home and in the end, living with Harry when she joins Marina Royal.

They perform for the whole season, but when Diamond falls off the springboard and hurts herself, and is threatened by her master, Hetty takes Diamond and they run away. At the start of this book Hetty and her younger friend Diamond are traveling across part of England on a penny farthing.I do love the ending though, there's some closure to it, but there's also an element of surprise as if Hetty's future is never set in stone. I've got to say, I thoroughly enjoyed all her forays into performing, eventually finding what I think is her rightful place as a true star in the West End, with a family of misfits who all love her just like blood relatives and, at the risk of repeating myself, perhaps even more so. I guess both of these traits however do fall in line with her upbringing, how she's had to act selfishly to survive. The relationship between Hetty and Diamond is so touching and you just know they will be together forever as sisters. Escaping from Tanglefield’s Travelling Circus with her dearest friend Diamond, Hetty is determined to find them positions as glamorous music hall artistes.