Jackie French

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Jackie French (born 1953) is an award-winning Australian author of children's fiction, and books on gardening.

Jackie French was born in Sydney and grew up in Brisbane, but moved to the bush in her early twenties. She is a keen gardener and 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 at Araluen. 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. A hundred and thirty plus books later, she is still writing. She can rightly be called Australia's most popular children's writer.[citation needed] Jackie also appears regularly on radio and television.

Contents

[edit] Selective bibliography

[edit] Picture Books

with Bruce Whatley

  • Diary of a Wombat (2003)
  • Too many pears! (2003)
  • Pete the Sheep (2005)
  • Josephine Loves to Dance (2007)
  • The Shaggy Gully Times (2007)

[edit] Junior fiction

  • Rain Stones (1991)
  • Walking the Boundaries (1993)
  • Somewhere Around the Corner (1995)
  • Beyond the Boundaries (1996)
  • The Warrior (Young Blue Gum) (1996) illustrated by Bettina Guthridge
  • A Wombat Named Bosco(1996) illustrated by Bettina Guthridge
  • Summerland (1997)
  • The Book of Unicorns (1997)
  • Soldier on the Hill (1997)
  • Hitler's Daughter (1999)
  • Dark Wind Blowing (2001)
  • Cafe on Callisto (2002)
  • The White Ship (2002)
  • Tom Appleby Convict Boy (2004)
  • They Came on Viking Ships (2005) (published as Slave Girl in the UK and Rover in the USA )
  • Macbeth and Son (2006)
  • Pharaoh (2007)
  • Rover (2007)
  • Children of the Valley series

1. Music from the sea (1993)

2. City in the sand (1993)

3. House of a hundred animals (1993)

4. The metal men (1994)

5. The tribe that sang to trees (1996)

  • Phredde the Phaery series
  • Wacky Family series

[edit] Junior non-fiction

  • The Goat Who sailed the World - the true story of the goat who sailed with Captain Cook on The Endeavour
  • How to Guzzle Your Garden (2000) with Judith Rossell
  • The Fascinating History of Your Lunch
  • Stamp, Stomp, Whomp and Other Interesting Ways to Get Rid of Pests
  • The Secret Life of Wombats (2005) with Bruce Whatley
  • The Dinkum History series- an eight volume history of Australia, illustrated by Peter Sheehan

[edit] Adult non-fiction

  • Rocket Your Child into Reading (2004)

[edit] Adult Books

  • A War for Gentlemen (2003)
  • Seasons of Content (A Year in the Southern Highlands) (1998) illustrated by Gwen Harrison

[edit] Awards

To the Moon and Back (Bryan Sullivan and Jackie French, illus. by Gus Gordon)

  • 2005 - Children's Book Council of Australia Awards Eve Pownall Award for Information Books [1]

Diary of a Wombat (Bruce Whatley and Jackie French)

  • 2004 USA Benjamin Franklin Award
  • 2004 USA Lemmee Award
  • 2004 KIND Award USA
  • 2003 Notable Children's Book by the American Library Association (ALA)
  • 2003 Voted Favourite Picture Book of the Year in the Cuffie Awards in the USA
  • 2003 Tied with Diary of a Worm for Funniest Book in the Cuffie Awards in the USA
  • Number two on the 'Best 20 picture books for 2003' in the USA
  • COOL Award, for Best Picture Book, voted by the kids of the ACT
  • 2003 Winner Young Australian Readers' Award
  • 2003 Winner KOALA Award for Best Picture Book
  • 2003 ABA/A A Neilson Book of the Year
  • 2003 Honour Book, Children's Book Council of Australia Awards - Picture Book of the Year [2]
  • Shortlisted
  • 2004 - Bilby Award
  • 2003 - KOALA, COOL and YABBA awards, Children's Book Council of Australia Awards for Picture Book of the Year, Australian Publisher's Association Book Design Awards for Best Designed Children's Picture Book, and also for a Galley Club Award, Picture Book category of the Children's Choice Book Awards

The Secret World of Wombats

They Came on Viking Ships

My Dad the Dragon

  • Shortlisted - 2005: Children's Book Council Awards, the Younger Readers Award and Picture Book of the Year

Tom Appleby, Convict Boy

  • 2005 Children's Book Council Awards - winner of the Younger Readers Award
  • Shortlisted - 2005: Picture Book of the Year

Pete the Sheep (Jackie French and Bruce Whatley)

  • 2005 KOALA (Kids Own Australian Literature Awards)

Hitler's Daughter

  • 2003 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards - Book of the Year, Young Readers[4]
  • 2003 Named a "Blue Ribbon" book by the Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books in the USA.
  • UK National Literacy Association WOW! Award
  • Shortlisted
  • 2004: COOL and Yabba Awards
  • 2002: KOALA, COOL and YABBA awards, the Older Readers' category of the Children's Choice Book Awards
  • 2001: the Older Readers' category of the Bilby Award, YABBAs and the WAYRBA.
  • 2000: the Sanderson Young Adult Audio Book of the Year Awards: Vision Australia Library

How to Guzzle Your Garden

  • Shortlisted - 2000: Children's Book Council of Australia Awards - Eve Pownall Award for Information [4]

Flesh and Blood

  • 2004 Aurealis Award for Fantasy and Science Fiction - Best Young Adult Novel

Valley of Gold

  • 2004 - CBCA Notable Book

Ride the Wild Wind

  • 2003 - CBCA Notable Book

In the Blood

  • 2002 - ACT Book of the Year[5]

Blood Will Tell

CafÈ on Callisto

Lady Dance

  • 2001 - winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia, Notable Book and Book of the Year

Stamp, Stomp, Whomp

  • 2001 - winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia, Notable Book and Book of the Year

Missing You, Love Sara

  • 2001 - Notable Book: CBCA Book of the Year
  • Shortlisted
  • 2002 - for the KOALAs, YABBA
  • 2001 - West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA) in the Older Readers' category

Too Many Pears!

  • 2004 - CBC Notable book
  • Shortlisted - COOl and KOALA Awards

Daughter of the Regiment

  • Shortlisted - 1999: Children's Book Council of Australia Awards - Book of the Year, Young Readers [4]

Somewhere Around the Corner

  • 1995 - Honour Book, Children's Book Council of Australia Awards - Book of the Year, Young Readers [4]
  • 1994 - Highly Commended in the Annual Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature [6]

Walking the Boundaries

  • 1994 - Notable Book, CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers
  • Shortlisted in the Junior Section of the Australian Multicultural Children's Literature Awards

Rain Stones

  • Shortlisted
  • 1993 - Primary Age Group of the WAYRBAs
  • 1992 - Children's Book Council of Australia Awards - Book of the Year, Young Readers [4]
  • 1991 - Children's Book Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards

The Roo that Won the Melbourne Cup

  • 1992 - Notable Book, CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "The Children's Book Council of Australia, The Children's Book of the Year Awards", November 26, 2006. 
  2. ^ "The Children's Book Council of Australia, The Children's Book of the Year Awards", November 26, 2006. 
  3. ^ "New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, 2006 Shortlist", April 13, 2006. 
  4. ^ a b c d e "The Children's Book Council of Australia, The Children's Book of the Yea Awards", November 26, 2006. 
  5. ^ ACT Book of the Year Winners. ACT Virtual Library. Retrieved on 2007-09-03.
  6. ^ "The Family Therapy Associations of Australia, Award for Children's Literature", July 1, 2007. 

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