<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is the present Children's Laureate?&nbsp; Think Gruffalo.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yesterday, on Radio 2, the presenter Graham Norton was interviewing Jacqueline Wilson.<span>&nbsp; </span>She was the Children&rsquo;s Laureate between the years 2005-7 and received a bursary of &pound;15,000.<span>&nbsp; </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To date, 30,000,000 of Jacqueline&rsquo;s books have been sold in the UK alone and have been translated into 30 languages.<span>&nbsp; </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jacqueline admitted that the <em>Jackie</em> magazine for teenage girls (remember the Cathy and Claire problem page?<span>&nbsp; </span>Graham did) was named after her, as she was the youngest journalist in the office at the time, before she became a notable author.<span>&nbsp; </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Whilst on the subject of words, Stephen Fry&rsquo;s <em>Planet Word</em> is showing on BBC2 tonight at 9 pm; a five-part series exploring language in all its amazing complexity, variety and ingenuity.<span>&nbsp; </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stephen claims there are 6 to 7,000 languages spoken worldwide and many of them are rapidly becoming extinct.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">One never knows, he might even discuss the subject of texting and poetry.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>