Customer Reviews
BRILL BOOK - By: Mehajabeen Farid, 02 May 2008 
The story plot of the book
April is left in a dustbin straight after her birth...
About the author of the book
Jacqueline Wilson is one of my favourite authors & she wrote this book! She has her own personal collection of over 15,000 books & I've about a thirtieth of that (500)!
About the awards & sequel for the book:
This book is not part of a series of books; it hasn't won any awards either. However, it is by a hugely popular & well-known author, Jacqueline Wilson, who has won many, many different awards including the Children's Book Award (she has won that a lot of times) & the Smarties Prize (for Double Act).
My awards for the book
I would rate this brilliant book 10/10; I reallly, reallly enjoyed this book, to prove that I reallly, reallly enjoyed this book I couldn't put it down until the very end! I would recommend it to anyone who reallly likes Jacqueline Wilson's books - just like me, especiallly older girls.
Avoid for sensitive children! - By: Smileyuk, 17 Nov 2007 
My daughter is 8 & we bought this book as she's enjoyed many of the others. There was nothing on it to suggest that it wasn't suitable for an 8 year old so I was horrified to find her breaking her heart & begging me to take the book away so she couldn't see it. Why? April's mother commits suicide in the bathroom. Not something a child should EVER need to read about!!!!!!!!
Dustbin Baby - By: Catherine, 29 Jul 2006 
I reallly enjoyed this book. I think that it is one of Jacqueline Wilson's best books.
It is about a girl callled April who was found in a dustbin when she was a baby. It tells her life story & it is very sad, especiallly when it gets to what happened to her parents, her Mum especiallly. A must-read.
Spot on as usuall for Jaqueline Wilson!!! - By: Edward Murty, 08 Jul 2006 
Jaqueline wilson is one of the best teen authors around thanks to some of her books like this. This isn't her best book but it is still good.
The book is the main character April telling her lifestory. This is slow to get moving to the good part & when you think it's just gotten good it finishes weakly. At the end i thought what was the point of writing this if you can't even finish it properly.
Her best book - By: , 02 Apr 2006 The enchanting style of Children's Laureate Jacqueline Wilson is not always in top form (note more recent efforts such as Clean Break) but here, in Dustbin Baby, the novel flows perfectly.
The story is so reminicent of the feelings of a teenage girl who needs her own identity, & her eventual realisation that what she has been desperately seeking is already with her, that it is spooky.
Touching, sad & ultimately uplifting, Dustbin Baby is a book you will not forget.
