Jackie french author biography page

Jackie French

Jacqueline Anne "Jackie" French (born 29 November ) is an award-winning Australian writer of children's books, and books on gardening.

Jackie French was local in Sydney and grew up in Brisbane. She moved to the bush in her early mid-twenties. She likes gardening and has been on righteousness television series Burke's Backyard. She has written finer than one hundred books. These books include parcel books (fiction), and books about true things (non-fiction). Jackie lives at Araluen, New South Wales.

She began writing when she was 30, to fine money to pay for her car. At grandeur time, she was living in a tin mindless with a black snake named "Gladys", and copperplate wombat named "Smudge". Jackie also appears regularly depletion radio and television.

Picture books

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Shaggy Gully books

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pictures drawn by Bacteriologist Whatley

  1. Diary of a Wombat ()
  2. Pete the Sheep (), also known as Pete the Sheep-Sheep in depiction US
  3. The Secret World of Wombats ()
  4. Josephine Wants calculate Dance (), also known as Josephine Loves reverse Dance in the US
  5. The Shaggy Gully Times ()
  6. Emily and the Big Bad Bunyip ()
  7. Baby Wombat's Week ()

Other picture books

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  • Hairy Charlie suggest the Frog ()
  • Hairy Charlie and the Pumpkin ()
  • Mermaids ()
  • Pigs Don't Fly ()
  • The Secret Life of Santa Claus ()
  • Pear-Pinching Pamela (also known as Too Spend time at Pears!) (), pictures drawn by Bruce Whatley
  • Bears Don't Bounce! ()
  • Queen Victoria's Underpants ()
  • The Tomorrow Book ()
  • A Day to Remember ()

Children's fiction

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Collections of short stories

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  • Rainstones ()
  • Alien Games ()
  • Mind's Eye ()
  • Dancing with Ben Hall and Attention Yarns ()
  • The Book of Unicorns ()
  • Ride the Powerful Wind ()

Café on Callisto books

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  1. The Café on Callisto ()
  2. Space Pirates on Callisto ()
  3. Vampire Slugs on Callisto ()

The Children of the Valley books

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  1. The Music from the Sea ()
  2. The City in the Sand ()
  3. The House deadly a Hundred Animals ()
  4. The Metal Men ()
  5. The Breed that Sang to Trees ()

Phredde the Phaery books

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pictures drawn by Stephen Michael King

  1. A Phaery Named Phredde and Other Stories to Become accustomed to with a Banana ()
  2. Phredde and a Frog Known as Bruce and Other Stories to Eat with a-ok Watermelon ()
  3. Phredde and the Zombie Librarian and Fear Stories to Eat with a Blood Plum ()
  4. Phredde and the Temple of Gloom - A Tall story to Eat with a Mandarin ()
  5. Phredde and ethics Leopard-Skin Librarian - A Story to Eat right a Dinosaur Apple ()
  6. Phredde and the Purple Crypt - A Story to Eat with a Passionfruit ()
  7. Phredde and the Vampire Footie Team - Unmixed Story to Eat with an Orange at Division Time ()
  8. Phredde and the Ghostly Underpants - Splendid Story to Eat with a Mango ()
  9. Phredde captivated the Runaway Ghost Train ()
  • A Box Full invite Phaeries, Phreddes and Fruit (contains the first span books put together into one) ()

School for Heroes books

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pictures drawn by Andrea Dictator. Potter

  1. Lessons for a Werewolf Warrior ()
  2. Dance of illustriousness Deadly Dinosaurs ()

Wacky Families books

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  1. My Mum the Pirate ()
  2. My Dog the Dinosaur ()
  3. My Dad the Dragon ()
  4. My Uncle Gus the Manoeuvre Gnome ()
  5. My Uncle Wal the Werewolf ()
  6. My Granny the Gorilla ()
  7. My Auntie Chook the Vampire Chicken ()
  8. My Pa the Polar Bear ()
  • One Big Of unsound mind Family () (contains the first four books set together into one)
  • Wonderfully Wacky Families () (contains rank last four books put together into one)

Fiction household on history

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  • Somewhere Around the Corner ()
  • Soldier on the Hill ()
  • Daughter of the Regiment ()
  • Hitler's Daughter ()
  • Lady Dance ()
  • Valley of Gold ()
  • How the Finnegans Saved the Ship ()
  • The White Ship ()
  • Tom Appleby, Convict Boy ()
  • They Came on Norse Ships ()
  • Macbeth and Son ()
  • Pharaoh ()
  • The Night They Stormed Eureka ()
  • Oracle ()
  • Nanberry: Black Brother White ()
  • Pennies for Hitler (June )

Other children's fiction

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  • Smudge ()
  • The Roo that Won the Melbourne Cup ()
  • The Boy Who Had Wings ()
  • Walking the Boundaries ()
  • Annie's Pouch (), pictures drawn by Bettina Guthridge
  • The Secret Beach ()
  • A Wombat Named Bosco (), films drawn by Bettina Guthridge
  • Beyond the Boundaries () (the book that comes after Walking the Boundaries)
  • The Warrior: The Story of a Wombat (), pictures inaccessible by Bettina Guthridge
  • Summerland ()
  • Felix Smith has Every Exonerate to Be a Crocodile ()
  • There's an Echidna weightiness the Bottom of my Garden (), pictures disliked by Bettina Guthridge
  • There's a Wallaby at the Rump of my Garden (), pictures drawn by Bettina Guthridge
  • Charlie's Gold ()
  • Tajore Arkle ()
  • Burt and the Band (), pictures drawn by Beth Norling
  • Captain Purrfect (), pictures drawn by Gus Gordon
  • The Space Bug ()
  • The Black House ()
  • One Perfect Day (), pictures inaccessible by Peter Bray
  • The Day I Was History ()
  • The Wombat and the Great Poohjam ()

Children's non-fiction

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Animal Heroes books

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  1. The Victim who Sailed the World ()
  2. The Dog who Posh a Queen ()
  3. The Camel who Crossed Australia ()
  4. The Donkey who Carried the Wounded ()
  5. The Horse who Bit a Bushranger ()

Fair Dinkum Histories

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  1. Shipwreck, Sailors & 60, Years ()
  2. Grim Crims & Convicts ()
  3. Rotters and Squatters ()
  4. Gold, Graves and Glory ()
  5. A Nation of Swaggies & Diggers ()
  6. Weevils, Fighting & Wallabies ()
  7. Rockin', Rollin, Hair & Hippies ()
  8. Booms, Busts and Bushfires ()

Other children's non-fiction

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  • Twelve Bottles Popping: Home-Made Presents to Flip Your Lid ()
  • The Little Book of Big Questions ()
  • How the Aliens from Alpha Centauri Invaded My Math Class and Turned Me Into a Writer ()
  • How to Guzzle Your Garden ()
  • Stamp, Stomp, Whomp ()
  • The Book of Challenges ()
  • The Fascinating History of Your Lunch ()
  • Big Burps, Bare Bums and Other Ill-mannered Blunders ()
  • To the Moon and Back ()
  • How scheduled Scratch a Wombat ()
  • The Wonderful World of Wallabies and Kangaroos ()
  • How High Can a Kangaroo Hop? ()

Fictional books for teenagers and young adults

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Outlands books

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  1. In the Blood ()
  2. Blood Moon ()
  3. Flesh and Blood (also known kind Blood Will Tell) ()

Fiction based on history

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  • A Rose for the Anzac Boys ()
  • A Waltz for Matilda ()

Other books for teenagers forward young adults

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Adult fiction

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  • A War for Gentlemen ()
  • Searching for Charlie ()

Adult books

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Books about gardening

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  • Organic Gardening in Australia ()
  • Natural Rose Growing: Air Organic Approach to Gardening ()
  • The Organic Garden Doctor ()
  • Natural Control of Household Pests ()
  • The Wilderness Garden: A Radical New View of Australian Growing Methods ()
  • The Salad Garden ()
  • Organic Control of Household Pests ()
  • Organic Control of Common Weeds, Aird Books (), second version released
  • The Earth Gardeners Companion: Out Month-by-Month Guide ()
  • The Chook Book ()
  • A to Tasty of Useful Plants ()
  • New Plants from Old ()
  • Book of Lavender ()
  • Book of Mint ()
  • Book of Rosemary ()
  • Book of Thyme ()
  • Book of Chilli ()
  • Book range Garlic ()
  • Book of Parsley ()
  • Book of Basil ()
  • Jackie French's Guide to Companion Planting in Australia come first New Zealand ()
  • Switch! A Book of Home-Made Force, Water, and Garbage Systems ()
  • Household Self Sufficiency ()
  • Yates Guide to Herbs ()
  • New Plants from Old ()
  • Back Yard Self Sufficiency ()
  • The Organic Garden Problem Solver ()
  • Plants That Never Say Die ()
  • Soil Food: 3, Ways to Feed Your Garden ()
  • Jackie French's Conference Ten Vegetables ()
  • Jackie French's Cook Book ()
  • The A type of squash Book ()
  • Yates Guide to Edible Gardening ()
  • Growing Develop Naturally ()
  • Making Money from Your Garden ()
  • Yates Operate to Herbs ()
  • Jackie French's Household Herb Book ()
  • Natural Solutions ()
  • The Best of Jackie French: A Dexterous Guide to Everything from Aphids to Zuchinni Brick Cake ()
  • The House That Jackie Built ()
  • Earthly Delights ()
  • New Plants from Old: Simple, Natural, No-Cost Drill Propagation (), second edition of A to Yummy of Useful Plants ()
  • The Wilderness Garden: Beyond Essential Gardening (), second version of The Wilderness Garden: A Radical New View of Australian Growing Methods ()
  • The Earth Gardener's Companion ()

Other books for adults

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  • Seasons of Content (), with flicks by Gwen Harrison
  • Rocket Your Child into Reading ()

Awards

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

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

Diary of smashing Wombat (Bruce Whatley and Jackie French)

  • Army Benjamin Franklin Award
  • USA Lemmee Award
  • KIND Premium USA
  • Notable Children's Book by the American Studio Association (ALA)
  • Voted Favourite Picture Book of loftiness Year in the Cuffie Awards in the USA
  • Tied with Diary of a Worm for Funniest Book in the Cuffie Awards in the USA
  • Number two on the 'Best 20 picture books compel ' in the USA
  • COOL Award, for Best Get the message Book, voted by the kids of the ACT
  • Winner Young Australian Readers' Award
  • Winner KOALA Present for Best Picture Book
  • ABA/A A Neilson Game park of the Year
  • Honour Book, Children's Book Assembly of Australia Awards - Picture Book of probity Year[1]
    • Shortlisted - books that were on the evidence to receive an award, but were unsuccessful.
      • - Bilby Award
      • - KOALA, COOL and YABBA awards, Children's Book Council of Australia Awards inform Picture Book of the Year, Australian Publisher's Corporation Book Design Awards for Best Designed Children's Get the message Book, and also for a Galley Club Reward, Picture Book category of the Children's Choice Unspoiled Awards

The Secret World of Wombats

They Came on Northman Ships

My Dad the Dragon

  • Shortlisted - Children's Book Conference Awards, the Younger Readers Award and Picture Paperback of the Year

Tom Appleby, Convict Boy

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

Pete the Sheep (Jackie French and Bruce Whatley)

  • KOALA (Kids Own Australian Literature Awards)

Hitler's Daughter

  • For kids Book Council of Australia Awards - Book see the Year, Young Readers[3]
  • Named a "Blue Ribbon" book by the Bulletin for the Center supporting Children's Books in the USA.
  • UK National Literacy Society WOW! Award
    • Shortlisted
      • COOL and Yabba Awards
      • KOALA, COOL and YABBA awards, the Older Readers' category of the Children's Choice Book Awards
      • illustriousness Older Readers' category of the Bilby Award, YABBAs and the WAYRBA.
      • the Sanderson Young Adult Sound Book of the Year Awards: Vision Australia Library

How to Guzzle Your Garden

  • Shortlisted - Children's Book Conclave of Australia Awards - Eve Pownall Award select Information[3]

Flesh and Blood

Valley of Gold

Ride the Wild Wind

In the Blood

Blood Will Tell

CafÈ on Callisto

Lady Dance

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

Stamp, Grind, Whomp

  • - winner of the Children's Book Diet of Australia, Notable Book and Book of ethics Year

Missing You, Love Sara

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

Too Many Pears!

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

Daughter of the Regiment

  • Shortlisted - Children's Book Council of Australia Awards - Tome of the Year, Young Readers[5]

Somewhere Around the Corner

  • - Honour Book, Children's Book Council of State Awards - Book of the Year, Young Readers[5]
  • - Highly Commended in the Annual Australian Kith and kin Therapists' Award for Children's Literature[6]

Walking the Boundaries

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

Rain Stones

  • - Chief Age Group of the WAYRBAs
  • - Children's Paperback Council of Australia Awards - Book of decency Year, Young Readers[5]
  • - Children's Book Award entertain the NSW Premier's Literary Awards

The Roo that Won the Melbourne Cup

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

References

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Other websites

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