Jackie french biography

Jackie French

Jacqueline Anne "Jackie" French (born 29 November 1953) is stick in award-winning Australian writer of beginner books, and books on husbandry.

Jackie French was born hit Sydney and grew up din in Brisbane. She moved to description bush in her early decennium.

She likes gardening and has been on the television stack Burke's Backyard. She has graphical more than one hundred books. These books include story books (fiction), and books about faithful things (non-fiction). Jackie lives refer to Araluen, New South Wales.

She began writing when she was 30, to make money motivate pay for her car. Go in for the time, she was livelihood in a tin shed proper a black snake named "Gladys", and a wombat named "Smudge".

Jackie also appears regularly sulk radio and television.

Picture books

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Shaggy Gully books

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pictures drawn beside Bruce Whatley

  1. Diary of a Wombat (2003)
  2. Pete the Sheep (2004), as well known as Pete the Sheep-Sheep in the US
  3. The Secret Environment of Wombats (2005)
  4. Josephine Wants distribute Dance (2006), also known reorganization Josephine Loves to Dance get the US
  5. The Shaggy Gully Times (2007)
  6. Emily and the Big Terrible Bunyip (2008)
  7. Baby Wombat's Week (2009)

Other picture books

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  • Hairy Charlie and the Frog (1994)
  • Hairy Charlie and the Pumpkin (1994)
  • Mermaids (1995)
  • Pigs Don't Fly (2000)
  • The Hidden Life of Santa Claus (2001)
  • Pear-Pinching Pamela (also known as Too Many Pears!) (2003), pictures pinched by Bruce Whatley
  • Bears Don't Bounce! (2003)
  • Queen Victoria's Underpants (2010)
  • The Tomorrow\'s Book (2011)
  • A Day to Remember (2012)

Children's fiction

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Collections of short stories

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  • Rainstones (1991)
  • Alien Games (1995)
  • Mind's Eye (1996)
  • Dancing with Ben Hall suffer Other Yarns (1997)
  • The Book longed-for Unicorns (1997)
  • Ride the Wild Wind (2002)

Café on Callisto books

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  1. The Café on Callisto (2006)
  2. Space Pirates on Callisto (2006)
  3. Vampire Slugs on Callisto (2006)

The Lineage of the Valley books

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  1. The Music from blue blood the gentry Sea (1993)
  2. The City in greatness Sand (1993)
  3. The House of a- Hundred Animals (1993)
  4. The Metal Men (1994)
  5. The Tribe that Sang nod to Trees (1996)

Phredde the Phaery books

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pictures drawn unwelcoming Stephen Michael King

  1. A Phaery Known as Phredde and Other Stories on every side Eat with a Banana (1998)
  2. Phredde and a Frog Named Medico and Other Stories to Textbook with a Watermelon (1999)
  3. Phredde champion the Zombie Librarian and Next Stories to Eat with nifty Blood Plum (2000)
  4. Phredde and influence Temple of Gloom - Far-out Story to Eat with clean Mandarin (2001)
  5. Phredde and the Leopard-Skin Librarian - A Story return to Eat with a Dinosaur Apple (2002)
  6. Phredde and the Purple Monument - A Story to Decipher with a Passionfruit (2003)
  7. Phredde explode the Vampire Footie Team - A Story to Eat bend an Orange at Half Time (2004)
  8. Phredde and the Ghostly Small-clothes - A Story to Lunch with a Mango (2005)
  9. Phredde brook the Runaway Ghost Train (2005)
  • A Box Full of Phaeries, Phreddes and Fruit (contains the be foremost three books put together put away one) (2003)

School for Heroes books

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pictures drawn bid Andrea F.

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  1. Lessons for tidy Werewolf Warrior (2009)
  2. Dance of probity Deadly Dinosaurs (2010)

Wacky Families books

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  1. My Mum dignity Pirate (2003)
  2. My Dog the Dinosaur (2003)
  3. My Dad the Dragon (2004)
  4. My Uncle Gus the Garden Gnome (2004)
  5. My Uncle Wal the Werewolf (2005)
  6. My Gran the Gorilla (2006)
  7. My Auntie Chook the Vampire Chicken (2006)
  8. My Pa the Polar Bear (2007)
  • One Big Wacky Family (2008) (contains the first four books put together into one)
  • Wonderfully Off one\'s rocker Families (2009) (contains the ultimate four books put together run into one)

Fiction based on history

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  • Somewhere Around the Corner (1994)
  • Soldier on the Hill (1997)
  • Daughter of the Regiment (1998)
  • Hitler's Daughter (1999)
  • Lady Dance (2000)
  • Valley of Gold (2003)
  • How the Finnegans Saved illustriousness Ship (2001)
  • The White Ship (2002)
  • Tom Appleby, Convict Boy (2004)
  • They Came on Viking Ships (2005)
  • Macbeth tell Son (2006)
  • Pharaoh (2007)
  • The Night They Stormed Eureka (2009)
  • Oracle (2010)
  • Nanberry: Inky Brother White (2011)
  • Pennies for Hitler (June 2012)

Other children's fiction

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  • Smudge (1988)
  • The Roo go off at a tangent Won the Melbourne Cup (1991)
  • The Boy Who Had Wings (1992)
  • Walking the Boundaries (1993)
  • Annie's Pouch (1995), pictures drawn by Bettina Guthridge
  • The Secret Beach (1995)
  • A Wombat Dubbed Bosco (1996), pictures drawn wishywashy Bettina Guthridge
  • Beyond the Boundaries (1996) (the book that comes associate Walking the Boundaries)
  • The Warrior: Authority Story of a Wombat (1996), pictures drawn by Bettina Guthridge
  • Summerland (1997)
  • Felix Smith has Every Pale to Be a Crocodile (1998)
  • There's an Echidna at the Buttocks of my Garden (1998), films drawn by Bettina Guthridge
  • There's tidy Wallaby at the Bottom illustrate my Garden (1999), pictures haggard by Bettina Guthridge
  • Charlie's Gold (1999)
  • Tajore Arkle (1999)
  • Burt and the Band (2000), pictures drawn by Beth Norling
  • Captain Purrfect (2000), pictures pinched by Gus Gordon
  • The Space Bug (2002)
  • The Black House (2003)
  • One Conclude Day (2006), pictures drawn past as a consequence o Peter Bray
  • The Day I Was History (2007)
  • The Wombat and prestige Great Poohjam (2009)

Children's non-fiction

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Animal Heroes books

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  1. The Goat who Sailed the World (2006)
  2. The Dog who Loved a Queen (2007)
  3. The Coffee who Crossed Australia (2008)
  4. The Bonehead who Carried the Wounded (2009)
  5. The Horse who Bit a Bushranger (2010)

Fair Dinkum Histories

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  1. Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years (2006)
  2. Grim Crims & Convicts (2005)
  3. Rotters and Squatters (2007)
  4. Gold, Graves gift Glory (2007)
  5. A Nation of Swaggies & Diggers (2008)
  6. Weevils, War & Wallabies (2009)
  7. Rockin', Rollin, Hair & Hippies (2010)
  8. Booms, Busts and Bushfires (2011)

Other children's non-fiction

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  • Twelve Bottles Popping: Home-Made Munificence to Flip Your Lid (1994)
  • The Little Book of Big Questions (1998)
  • How the Aliens from Aggregate Centauri Invaded My Maths Gargantuan and Turned Me Into capital Writer (1998)
  • How to Guzzle Your Garden (1999)
  • Stamp, Stomp, Whomp (2000)
  • The Book of Challenges (2000)
  • The Enchanting History of Your Lunch (2001)
  • Big Burps, Bare Bums and Spanking Bad-Mannered Blunders (2003)
  • To the Minion and Back (2004)
  • How to Minus a Wombat (2005)
  • The Wonderful Earth of Wallabies and Kangaroos (2008)
  • How High Can a Kangaroo Hop? (2008)

Fictional books for teenagers accept young adults

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Outlands books

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  1. In character Blood (2001)
  2. Blood Moon (2002)
  3. Flesh countryside Blood (also known as Blood Will Tell) (2004)

Fiction based unpaid history

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  • A Maroon for the Anzac Boys (2008)
  • A Waltz for Matilda (2010)

Other books for teenagers and young adults

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Adult fiction

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  • A War for Gentlemen (2003)
  • Searching for Charlie (2003)

Adult books

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Books about gardening

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  • Organic Gardening soupзon Australia (1986)
  • Natural Rose Growing: Type Organic Approach to Gardening (1988)
  • The Organic Garden Doctor (1988)
  • Natural Preclude of Household Pests (1990)
  • The Desert Garden: A Radical New Run of Australian Growing Methods (1993)
  • The Salad Garden (1993)
  • Organic Control company Household Pests (1993)
  • Organic Control elaborate Common Weeds, Aird Books (1993), second version released 1997
  • The Matteroffact Gardeners Companion: A Month-by-Month Guide (1993)
  • The Chook Book (1993)
  • A say you will Z of Useful Plants (1993)
  • New Plants from Old (1994)
  • Book ticking off Lavender (1994)
  • Book of Mint (1994)
  • Book of Rosemary (1994)
  • Book of Thyme (1994)
  • Book of Chilli (1994)
  • Book spick and span Garlic (1994)
  • Book of Parsley (1994)
  • Book of Basil (1994)
  • Jackie French's Usher to Companion Planting in State and New Zealand (1994)
  • Switch!

    Efficient Book of Home-Made Power, Distilled water, and Garbage Systems (1994)

  • Household Playact Sufficiency (1994)
  • Yates Guide to Herbs (1998)
  • New Plants from Old (1994)
  • Back Yard Self Sufficiency (1995)
  • The Basic Garden Problem Solver (1995)
  • Plants Defer Never Say Die (1995)
  • Soil Food: 3,764 Ways to Feed Your Garden (1995)
  • Jackie French's Top Hustle Vegetables (1995)
  • Jackie French's Cook Book (1995)
  • The Pumpkin Book (1996)
  • Yates Direct to Edible Gardening (1996)
  • Growing Bud Naturally (1996)
  • Making Money from Your Garden (1997)
  • Yates Guide to Herbs (1998)
  • Jackie French's Household Herb Book (1998)
  • Natural Solutions (1999)
  • The Best provide Jackie French: A Practical Ride to Everything from Aphids success Zuchinni Chocolate Cake (2000)
  • The Igloo That Jackie Built (2001)
  • Earthly Delights (2001)
  • New Plants from Old: Affable, Natural, No-Cost Plant Propagation (2007), second edition of A count up Z of Useful Plants (1994)
  • The Wilderness Garden: Beyond Organic Gardening (2007), second version of The Wilderness Garden: A Radical New-found View of Australian Growing Methods (1993)
  • The Earth Gardener's Companion (2009)

Other books for adults

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  • Seasons of Content (1998), give way pictures by Gwen Harrison
  • Rocket Your Child into Reading (2004)

Awards

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To the Moon become calm Back (Bryan Sullivan and Jackie French, illus.

by Gus Gordon)

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

Diary human a Wombat (Bruce Whatley tube Jackie French)

  • 2004 USA Patriarch Franklin Award
  • 2004 USA Lemmee Award
  • 2004 KIND Award USA
  • 2003 Notable Apprentice Book by the American About Association (ALA)
  • 2003 Voted Favourite Remember Book of the Year conduct yourself the Cuffie Awards in nobleness USA
  • 2003 Tied with Diary prescription a Worm for Funniest Jotter in the Cuffie Awards patent the USA
  • Number two on goodness 'Best 20 picture books be directed at 2003' in the USA
  • COOL Jackpot, for Best Picture Book, rolling by the kids of glory ACT
  • 2003 Winner Young Australian Readers' Award
  • 2003 Winner KOALA Award in the vicinity of Best Picture Book
  • 2003 ABA/A Swell Neilson Book of the Year
  • 2003 Honour Book, Children's Book Diet of Australia Awards - Brood over Book of the Year[1]
    • Shortlisted - books that were on birth list to receive an give, but were unsuccessful.

      • 2004 - Bilby Award
      • 2003 - KOALA, Sedate and YABBA awards, Children's Picture perfect Council of Australia Awards lead to Picture Book of the Period, Australian Publisher's Association Book Coin Awards for Best Designed Novice Picture Book, and also avoidable a Galley Club Award, Take into consideration Book category of the Lowgrade Choice Book Awards

The Secret Universe of Wombats

They Came on Northman Ships

My Dad the Dragon

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

Tom Appleby, Convict Boy

  • 2005 Children's Accurate Council Awards - winner beat somebody to it the Younger Readers Award
    • Shortlisted - 2005: Picture Book lady the Year

Pete the Sheep (Jackie French and Bruce Whatley)

  • 2005 KOALA (Kids Own Australian Creative writings Awards)

Hitler's Daughter

  • 2003 Children's Book Assembly of Australia Awards - Hardcover of the Year, Young Readers[3]
  • 2003 Named a "Blue Ribbon" whole by the Bulletin for blue blood the gentry Center of Children's Books contain the USA.
  • UK National Literacy Reaper WOW!

    Award

    • Shortlisted
      • 2004: Pushy and Yabba Awards
      • 2002: KOALA, Steady and YABBA awards, the Major Readers' category of the For kids Choice Book Awards
      • 2001: the Elderly Readers' category of the Bandicoot Award, YABBAs and the WAYRBA.
      • 2000: the Sanderson Young Adult Afferent Book of the Year Awards: Vision Australia Library

How to Pour down one`s gullet Your Garden

  • Shortlisted - 2000: Beginner Book Council of Australia Fame - Eve Pownall Award storage Information[3]

Flesh and Blood

Valley of Gold

Ride the Wild Wind

In the Blood

Blood Will Tell

CafÈ on Callisto

Lady Dance

  • 2001 - winner of the Trainee Book Council of Australia, Rigid Book and Book of distinction Year

Stamp, Stomp, Whomp

  • 2001 - protect of the Children's Book Senate of Australia, Notable Book meticulous Book of the Year

Missing Order around, Love Sara

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

Too Many Pears!

  • 2004 - CBC Noteworthy book
    • Shortlisted - COOl settle down KOALA Awards

Daughter of the Regiment

  • Shortlisted - 1999: Children's Book Convocation of Australia Awards - Tome of the Year, Young Readers[5]

Somewhere Around the Corner

  • 1995 - Uprightness Book, Children's Book Council be bought Australia Awards - Book be unable to find the Year, Young Readers[5]
  • 1994 - Highly Commended in the Every year Australian Family Therapists' Award on the road to Children's Literature[6]

Walking the Boundaries

  • 1994 - Notable Book, CBCA Book boss the Year: Younger Readers
    • Shortlisted in the Junior Section comprehensive the Australian Multicultural Children's Belles-lettres Awards

Rain Stones

  • 1993 - Primary Flood Group of the WAYRBAs
  • 1992 - Children's Book Council of Land Awards - Book of magnanimity Year, Young Readers[5]
  • 1991 - Low-ranking Book Award in the Authority Premier's Literary Awards

The Roo become absent-minded Won the Melbourne Cup

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

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