Fair Dinkum Histories

Fair Dinkum Histories
Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years: Before 1788 Grim Crims & Convicts: 1788-1820 Rotters and Squatters: 1820-1850 Gold, Graves and Glory: 1850-1880 A Nation of Swaggies & Diggers: 1880-1920 Weevils, War & Wallabies: 1920-1945 Rockin', Rollin, Hair & Hippies: 1945-1972 Booms, Busts and Bushfires: 1972 Onwards
Author	Jackie French
Illustrator	Peter Sheehan
Cover artist	Peter Sheehan
Country	Australia
Language	English
Publisher	Scholastic Books Australia
Published	2005-2011
No. of books	8

Fair Dinkum Histories is a spin-off series of the Horrible Histories books. It is written by Jackie French, illustrated by Peter Sheehan and focuses on the history of Australia.^[1] According to the Australian book review, French has "taken the Horrible Histories template and tweaked it with [her] own imprint, Fair Dinkum Histories".^[2]

List of books

Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years: Before 1788 (2006)
Grim Crims & Convicts: 1788-1820 (2005)
Rotters and Squatters: 1820-1850 (2007)
Gold, Graves and Glory: 1850-1880 (2007)
A Nation of Swaggies & Diggers: 1880-1920 (2008)
Weevils, War & Wallabies: 1920-1945 (2009)
Rockin', Rollin, Hair & Hippies: 1945-1972 (2010)
Booms, Busts and Bushfires: 1972 Onwards (2011)

Awards and nominations

Weevils, War & Wallabies: 1920-1945

Won - Notable Book, CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Eve Pownall Award for Information Books^[3] (2010)

References

↑ "Fair Dinkum Histories #1: Grim Crims and Convicts, 1788-1820". Leatherwood Books. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
↑ Australian book review: Issues 278-287. National Book Council (Australia). 2006. p. 56. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
↑ "EP_Notables_2010 - CBCA". 25 April 2012.

External links

Works by Jackie French

Picture books

Diary of a Wombat (2002)

Junior fiction

Short story collections	Rain Stones (1991)

Historical fiction	Somewhere Around the Corner (1994) Hitler's Daughter (1999) The White Ship (2002) They Came on Viking Ships (2005)

Junior non-fiction

Fair Dinkum Histories
To the Moon and Back (2004)

Teen and young adult fiction

Dark Wind Blowing (2001)

Horrible Histories

Book series (1993)

Television

Live-action series	Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry (2011) Prom (2011) 2015 Revival List of episodes

Animated series (2001)
Gory Games (2011)

Stage shows

The Mad Millennium (1999)
Terrible Tudors (2005)
Vile Victorians (2005)
Awful Egyptians (2007)
Ruthless Romans (2007)
Nottingham (2008)
Frightful First World War (2009)
Blitzed Brits (2009)
Barmy Britain (2012)
Horrible Christmas (2013)
Groovy Greeks (2015)
Incredible Invaders (2015)
Wicked Warwick (2015)

Exhibitions

Funfair of Fear (2000)
Frightful First World War (2008)
Terrible Trenches (2009)
Spies (2013)
Rotten Rationing (2013)
Plague, Poverty and Prayer (2013)
Blitzed Brits at IWM North (2015)

Games and toys

Horrible Histories World (2011)
Horrible Histories Battle Arena (2013)

Spin-offs

Horrible Science	Book series (1996) Stage show (2010) Horrible Science of Submarines exhibition (2013) TV series (2015)

Totally (formerly The Knowledge) (1997)
Murderous Maths (1997)
Truly Terrible Tales (1997)
The Spark Files (1998)
10 Best Ever! (formerly Top Ten) (1998)
Horrible Geography (1999)
Horribly Famous (formerly Dead Famous) (1999)
Twisted Tales (1999)
What They Don't Tell You About... (1999)
Foul Football (2000)
Time Detectives (2000)
America's Funny But True History (2001)
Boring Bible (2003)
Terry Deary's Tales (2003)
Wild Lives (2003)
Fair Dinkum Histories (2006)

Key people and companies

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