Jackie French
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Jackie French is an award-winning Australian author of children's fiction, and books on gardening. She is a keen gardener appeared on the TV series Burke's Backyard. She has written well over a hundred books. Jackie lives in New South Wales, near the small town of Braidwood. She began writing when she was 30, in a desperate attempt to get enough money together to register her car. At the time, she was living in a tin shed with a black snake named Gladys and a wombat named Smudge. 200 plus books later, she is still writing. She can rightly be called Australia's most popular childrens writer.
Jackie also appears regularly on radio and television.
She was born on the 30th of November, 1953 in Sydney, Australia. She grew up in Brisbane, but later moved back to Sydney in her early twenties.
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[edit] Selective bibliography
[edit] Picture Books
- Diary of a Wombat
- Pete the Sheep
[edit] Junior fiction
- 1993 Walking the Boundaries
- 1996 Beyond the Boundaries
- 1999 Hitler's Daughter
- 2002 Space Pirates on Callisto
- 2005 They Came on Viking Ships
- Children of the Valley series
- Phredde the Phaery series
- Tom Appleby Convict Boy
- Wacky Family series
- A Wombat Named Bosco
- Rainstones
[edit] Junior non-fiction
- How to Guzzle Your Garden
- The Fascinating History of Your Lunch
- Stamp, Stomp, Whomp and Other Interesting Ways to Get Rid of Pests
- The Secret Life of Wombats
[edit] Adult non-fiction
- 2004 Rocket Your Child into Reading
[edit] Awards
[edit] Children's Book Council of Australia
- 1995 Honour Book: Somewhere Around the Corner
- 2000 Book of the Year: Younger Readers: Hitler's Daughter
- 2003 Honour Book: Diary of a Wombat
- 2005 Eve Pownall Award for Information Books: To the Moon and Back
