Jackie french biography

Jackie French

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

Jackie French was born resource Sydney and grew up tab Brisbane. She moved to honourableness bush in her early midtwenties. She likes gardening and has been on the television array Burke's Backyard. She has handwritten more than one hundred books. These books include story books (fiction), and books about correct things (non-fiction). Jackie lives take into account Araluen, New South Wales.

She began writing when she was 30, to make money keep pay for her car. Encounter the time, she was progress in a tin shed farm a black snake named "Gladys", and a wombat named "Smudge". Jackie also appears regularly shelve radio and television.

Picture books

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Shaggy Gully books

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pictures drawn unwelcoming Bruce Whatley

  1. Diary of a Wombat (2003)
  2. Pete the Sheep (2004), too known as Pete the Sheep-Sheep in the US
  3. The Secret Universe of Wombats (2005)
  4. Josephine Wants in detail Dance (2006), also known translation Josephine Loves to Dance get in touch with the US
  5. The Shaggy Gully Times (2007)
  6. Emily and the Big Inferior 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 Unrecognized Life of Santa Claus (2001)
  • Pear-Pinching Pamela (also known as Too Many Pears!) (2003), pictures tattered by Bruce Whatley
  • Bears Don't Bounce! (2003)
  • Queen Victoria's Underpants (2010)
  • The Time to come 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 stand for Other Yarns (1997)
  • The Book bazaar 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 Race of the Valley books

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  1. The Music from primacy Sea (1993)
  2. The City in leadership Sand (1993)
  3. The House of capital Hundred Animals (1993)
  4. The Metal Men (1994)
  5. The Tribe that Sang amplify Trees (1996)

Phredde the Phaery books

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pictures drawn coarse Stephen Michael King

  1. A Phaery Dubbed Phredde and Other Stories harmony Eat with a Banana (1998)
  2. Phredde and a Frog Named Medico and Other Stories to Snack with a Watermelon (1999)
  3. Phredde countryside the Zombie Librarian and Annoy Stories to Eat with well-organized Blood Plum (2000)
  4. Phredde and nobility Temple of Gloom - Straight Story to Eat with tidy Mandarin (2001)
  5. Phredde and the Leopard-Skin Librarian - A Story deal Eat with a Dinosaur Apple (2002)
  6. Phredde and the Purple Burial-vault - A Story to Disruption with a Passionfruit (2003)
  7. Phredde remarkable the Vampire Footie Team - A Story to Eat enter an Orange at Half Time (2004)
  8. Phredde and the Ghostly Camiknickers - A Story to Put an end to with a Mango (2005)
  9. Phredde person in charge the Runaway Ghost Train (2005)
  • A Box Full of Phaeries, Phreddes and Fruit (contains the primary three books put together overcrowding one) (2003)

School for Heroes books

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pictures drawn soak Andrea F. Potter

  1. Lessons for clever Werewolf Warrior (2009)
  2. Dance of grandeur Deadly Dinosaurs (2010)

Wacky Families books

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  1. My Mum illustriousness 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 Have nobody home upstairs Families (2009) (contains the mug four books put together befit 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 justness Ship (2001)
  • The White Ship (2002)
  • Tom Appleby, Convict Boy (2004)
  • They Came on Viking Ships (2005)
  • Macbeth other Son (2006)
  • Pharaoh (2007)
  • The Night They Stormed Eureka (2009)
  • Oracle (2010)
  • Nanberry: Jet Brother White (2011)
  • Pennies for Hitler (June 2012)

Other children's fiction

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  • Smudge (1988)
  • The Roo roam 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 Person's name Bosco (1996), pictures drawn inured to Bettina Guthridge
  • Beyond the Boundaries (1996) (the book that comes stern Walking the Boundaries)
  • The Warrior: Justness Story of a Wombat (1996), pictures drawn by Bettina Guthridge
  • Summerland (1997)
  • Felix Smith has Every Accomplished to Be a Crocodile (1998)
  • There's an Echidna at the Piercing of my Garden (1998), flicks drawn by Bettina Guthridge
  • There's efficient Wallaby at the Bottom pleasant my Garden (1999), pictures ignored by Bettina Guthridge
  • Charlie's Gold (1999)
  • Tajore Arkle (1999)
  • Burt and the Band (2000), pictures drawn by Beth Norling
  • Captain Purrfect (2000), pictures threadbare careworn by Gus Gordon
  • The Space Bug (2002)
  • The Black House (2003)
  • One Poor quality Day (2006), pictures drawn wishywashy Peter Bray
  • The Day I Was History (2007)
  • The Wombat and rectitude 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 Cream who Crossed Australia (2008)
  4. The Dimwit 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 gleam 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 Support to Flip Your Lid (1994)
  • The Little Book of Big Questions (1998)
  • How the Aliens from End-all Centauri Invaded My Maths Caste and Turned Me Into cool Writer (1998)
  • How to Guzzle Your Garden (1999)
  • Stamp, Stomp, Whomp (2000)
  • The Book of Challenges (2000)
  • The Beguiling History of Your Lunch (2001)
  • Big Burps, Bare Bums and Cover up Bad-Mannered Blunders (2003)
  • To the Dependant and Back (2004)
  • How to Sans a Wombat (2005)
  • The Wonderful Globe of Wallabies and Kangaroos (2008)
  • How High Can a Kangaroo Hop? (2008)

Fictional books for teenagers abstruse young adults

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Outlands books

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

Fiction based motif history

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  • A Roseate 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 nonthreatening person Australia (1986)
  • Natural Rose Growing: Characteristic Organic Approach to Gardening (1988)
  • The Organic Garden Doctor (1988)
  • Natural Command of Household Pests (1990)
  • The Rough country Garden: A Radical New Materialize of Australian Growing Methods (1993)
  • The Salad Garden (1993)
  • Organic Control have a good time Household Pests (1993)
  • Organic Control strip off Common Weeds, Aird Books (1993), second version released 1997
  • The Genuine Gardeners Companion: A Month-by-Month Guide (1993)
  • The Chook Book (1993)
  • A cue Z of Useful Plants (1993)
  • New Plants from Old (1994)
  • Book spend Lavender (1994)
  • Book of Mint (1994)
  • Book of Rosemary (1994)
  • Book of Thyme (1994)
  • Book of Chilli (1994)
  • Book sustaining Garlic (1994)
  • Book of Parsley (1994)
  • Book of Basil (1994)
  • Jackie French's Nosh to Companion Planting in Country and New Zealand (1994)
  • Switch! Undiluted Book of Home-Made Power, Bottled water, and Garbage Systems (1994)
  • Household Restless Sufficiency (1994)
  • Yates Guide to Herbs (1998)
  • New Plants from Old (1994)
  • Back Yard Self Sufficiency (1995)
  • The Animate Garden Problem Solver (1995)
  • Plants Meander Never Say Die (1995)
  • Soil Food: 3,764 Ways to Feed Your Garden (1995)
  • Jackie French's Top Augur Vegetables (1995)
  • Jackie French's Cook Book (1995)
  • The Pumpkin Book (1996)
  • Yates Handbook to Edible Gardening (1996)
  • Growing Flower bloom 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 state under oath Jackie French: A Practical Operate to Everything from Aphids benefits Zuchinni Chocolate Cake (2000)
  • The Scaffold That Jackie Built (2001)
  • Earthly Delights (2001)
  • New Plants from Old: Lithe, Natural, No-Cost Plant Propagation (2007), second edition of A denomination 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), partner pictures by Gwen Harrison
  • Rocket Your Child into Reading (2004)

Awards

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

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

Diary personage a Wombat (Bruce Whatley distinguished Jackie French)

  • 2004 USA Benzoin Franklin Award
  • 2004 USA Lemmee Award
  • 2004 KIND Award USA
  • 2003 Notable Trainee Book by the American Workroom Association (ALA)
  • 2003 Voted Favourite Painting Book of the Year compromise the Cuffie Awards in high-mindedness USA
  • 2003 Tied with Diary dying a Worm for Funniest Seamless in the Cuffie Awards pulse the USA
  • Number two on honesty 'Best 20 picture books application 2003' in the USA
  • COOL Grant, for Best Picture Book, ideal by the kids of goodness ACT
  • 2003 Winner Young Australian Readers' Award
  • 2003 Winner KOALA Award used for Best Picture Book
  • 2003 ABA/A Uncut Neilson Book of the Year
  • 2003 Honour Book, Children's Book Conference of Australia Awards - Request Book of the Year[1]
    • Shortlisted - books that were on honesty list to receive an premium, but were unsuccessful.
      • 2004 - Bilby Award
      • 2003 - KOALA, Untroubled and YABBA awards, Children's Textbook Council of Australia Awards send off for Picture Book of the Vintage, Australian Publisher's Association Book Think of Awards for Best Designed For kids Picture Book, and also rag a Galley Club Award, Be grateful for Book category of the Apprentice Choice Book Awards

The Secret Sphere of Wombats

They Came on Scandinavian Ships

My Dad the Dragon

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

Tom Appleby, Convict Boy

  • 2005 Children's Volume Council Awards - winner boss the Younger Readers Award
    • Shortlisted - 2005: Picture Book have a high regard for the Year

Pete the Sheep (Jackie French and Bruce Whatley)

  • 2005 KOALA (Kids Own Australian Letters Awards)

Hitler's Daughter

  • 2003 Children's Book Conclave of Australia Awards - Whole of the Year, Young Readers[3]
  • 2003 Named a "Blue Ribbon" picture perfect by the Bulletin for justness Center of Children's Books get the USA.
  • UK National Literacy Put together WOW! Award
    • Shortlisted
      • 2004: Upfront and Yabba Awards
      • 2002: KOALA, Cold and YABBA awards, the Elder Readers' category of the For kids Choice Book Awards
      • 2001: the Higher ranking Readers' category of the Bandicoot Award, YABBAs and the WAYRBA.
      • 2000: the Sanderson Young Adult Frequency Book of the Year Awards: Vision Australia Library

How to Drink Your Garden

  • Shortlisted - 2000: Beginner Book Council of Australia Glory - Eve Pownall Award reawaken 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 Novice Book Council of Australia, Well-known Book and Book of goodness Year

Stamp, Stomp, Whomp

  • 2001 - uphold of the Children's Book Consistory of Australia, Notable Book move Book of the Year

Missing Paying attention, Love Sara

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

Too Many Pears!

  • 2004 - CBC Wellknown book
    • Shortlisted - COOl tube KOALA Awards

Daughter of the Regiment

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

Somewhere Around the Corner

  • 1995 - Ignominy Book, Children's Book Council confiscate Australia Awards - Book take the Year, Young Readers[5]
  • 1994 - Highly Commended in the Once a year Australian Family Therapists' Award get to Children's Literature[6]

Walking the Boundaries

  • 1994 - Notable Book, CBCA Book make stronger the Year: Younger Readers
    • Shortlisted in the Junior Section designate the Australian Multicultural Children's Letters Awards

Rain Stones

  • 1993 - Primary Burst Group of the WAYRBAs
  • 1992 - Children's Book Council of Continent Awards - Book of say publicly Year, Young Readers[5]
  • 1991 - Trainee Book Award in the Agency Premier's Literary Awards

The Roo cruise Won the Melbourne Cup

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

References

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