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Jackie French

Autore di Diary of a Wombat

256 opere 8,131 membri 217 recensioni 10 preferito

Sull'Autore

Jackie French was born on November 29, 1953 in Sydney, Australia. She overcame dyslexia to write over 140 books for both children and adults. Her children's books include Diary of a Wombat, Christmas Wombat, Flood, and Fire. A Waltz for Matilda, published in 2016, won the Kids Reading Oz Choice mostra altro (KROC) Award for fiction for years 7-9. She has also written 6 gardening books. She has received numerous awards including the 2000 CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers and the UK Wow! Award for Hitler's Daughter, an Aurealis Award for Cafe on Callisto, and ACT Book of the Year for In the Blood. She was chosen to be the Australian National Children's Laureate for 2014-2015 and was named the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. She also won a 2015 Excellence Award and the Redmond Barry Award, which honors contributions to the library and information sector. In 2016, she and illustrator Peter Bray won the ACT Writing and Publishing Award in the children's book category for their book, Horace the Baker's Horse and she was given the Pixie O'Harris Award for service to Australian children's books given by the Australian Book Industry Awards. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

Comprende i nomi: Jackie French, Jacqueline French

Comprende anche: French (1)

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Opere di Jackie French

Diary of a Wombat (2002) 1,350 copie
Hitler's Daughter (1999) 597 copie
Diary of a Baby Wombat (2009) 319 copie
Pete the Sheep (2004) 212 copie
Josephine Wants to Dance (2006) 190 copie
Christmas Wombat (2011) 178 copie
A Rose for the Anzac Boys (2008) 156 copie
Too Many Pears! (1600) 146 copie
A Waltz for Matilda (2010) 113 copie
Tom Appleby Convict Boy (2004) 111 copie
Backyard Self-Sufficiency (1992) 110 copie
Flood (2011) 110 copie
Pennies For Hitler (2012) 105 copie
Wombat Goes to School (2013) 85 copie
They Came on Viking Ships (2005) 74 copie
Fire (2014) 71 copie
Walking the Boundaries (1993) 66 copie
The girl from Snowy River (2012) 63 copie
Grim Crims & Convicts (2005) 62 copie
Macbeth and Son (2006) 58 copie
Daughter of the Regiment (1998) 54 copie
The Book of Unicorns (1997) 50 copie
Rover (2007) 50 copie
The road to Gundagai (2013) 50 copie
The tomorrow book (2010) 50 copie
Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies (2017) 49 copie
A Day to Remember (2012) 47 copie
The Shaggy Gully Times (2007) 44 copie
Soldier on the Hill (1998) 41 copie
Refuge (2013) 39 copie
Slave Girl (1600) 34 copie
I am Juliet (2014) 32 copie
Oracle (2010) 32 copie
Rain stones (1991) 32 copie
In the Blood (2001) 32 copie
Missing You, Love Sara (2000) 29 copie
The White Ship (2002) 29 copie
My Mom The Pirate (2003) 28 copie
Dancing with Ben Hall (1997) 27 copie
The Fire Wombat (2020) 27 copie
Goodbye, Mr Hitler (2017) 26 copie
The Lily and the Rose (2018) 26 copie
The Angel of Waterloo (2020) 25 copie
Birrung the Secret Friend (2015) 25 copie
Book of Mint (1993) 24 copie
Tajore Arkle (1999) 23 copie
Grandma Wombat (2016) 23 copie
Blood Moon (2002) 23 copie
Valley of Gold (2003) 22 copie
Wombat Wins (2015) 22 copie
Book of Lavender (1993) 22 copie
Book of Thyme (1993) 22 copie
Facing the Flame (2017) 22 copie
Dark Wind Blowing (2001) 21 copie
To the Moon and Back (2004) 20 copie
War for Gentlemen (2003) 19 copie
Beyond the boundaries (1996) 19 copie
The Dog Who Loved a Queen (2007) 19 copie
Good dog Hank (2014) 18 copie
Summerland (1996) 18 copie
How to Guzzle Your Garden (1999) 18 copie
Cyclone (2016) 18 copie
Lady Dance (2000) 17 copie
Flesh and Blood (2004) 17 copie
Just a Girl (2018) 17 copie
The Lily in the Snow (2019) 16 copie
Koala Bare (2017) 16 copie
Third Witch (2017) 15 copie
Becoming Mrs Mulberry (2023) 15 copie
Seasons of content (1998) 15 copie
The last dingo summer (2018) 14 copie
Ophelia, Queen of Denmark (2015) 14 copie
Pandemic (2020) 14 copie
No Hearts of Gold (2021) 14 copie
Dinosaurs Love Cheese (2013) 13 copie
The Boy Who Had Wings (1993) 13 copie
Lilies, Lies and Love (2020) 13 copie
Millie Loves Ants (2017) 12 copie
The Secret Beach (1995) 11 copie
Tiger tangle (2012) 11 copie
Pirate Boy of Sydney Town (2019) 11 copie
Shark attack (2012) 11 copie
Happy Birthday Wombat (2019) 10 copie
Elephant alert (2012) 10 copie
My Uncle Gus the Garden Gnome (2010) — Autore — 10 copie
Dippy's big day out (2018) 9 copie
Book of Rosemary (1993) 9 copie
My Auntie Chook the Vampire Chicken (2010) — Autore — 9 copie
Gorilla grab (2012) 8 copie
The music from the sea (1993) 8 copie
Book of Garlic (1994) 8 copie
A-Z of Useful Plants (1990) 8 copie
Secret Sparrow (2023) 7 copie
Yates Guide to Herbs (1994) 7 copie
When the war is over (2019) 7 copie
My Gran the Gorilla (2006) 7 copie
Drought (2022) 7 copie
With Love from Miss Lily (2017) 7 copie
Horace the baker's horse (2015) 6 copie
Pumpkin Book (1996) 6 copie
My Pa the Polar Bear (2010) 6 copie
The Sea Captain's Wife (2024) 6 copie
Mind's Eye (1996) 6 copie
The Black House (2003) 5 copie
Alien Games (1995) 5 copie
Mermaids (1995) 5 copie
Earthly Delights (2001) 4 copie
Natural Rose Growing (1988) 3 copie
The Turtle and the Flood (2023) 3 copie
The Metal Men (1994) 3 copie
Charlie's Gold (1999) 3 copie
The cafe on Callisto (2001) 3 copie
Night ride into danger (2021) 2 copie
Salad gardening (1992) 2 copie
All of Us (2019) 2 copie
Captain purrfect (2002) 2 copie
Tornado 1 copia
Plague 1 copia
Christmas in Paris (2019) 1 copia
Top koala (2019) 1 copia
Burt and the band (2000) 1 copia
The tinytoreum (2010) 1 copia
The Phredde Collection (2011) 1 copia
The space bug (2002) 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1953-11-29
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
Australia
Luogo di nascita
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Luogo di residenza
Araluen, New South Wales, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Attività lavorative
children's book author
Premi e riconoscimenti
CBCA Book of the Year (Younger Readers ∙ 2000)
Senior Australian of the Year (2015)
Breve biografia
Jackie French is a prolific author who writes gardening books, historical works (fiction and non-fiction), and various other works for children including books on wombats and fairies.

Utenti

Recensioni

A very well told (and well narrated, by Humphrey Bower) story about a young boy's experience of WWII. Now I have to read this author's earlier book!
 
Segnalato
TraSea | 11 altre recensioni | Apr 29, 2024 |
My kids' favorite Christmas picture book. A wombat finds her way onto Santa's sleigh, and lives her best life on the journey.
 
Segnalato
sloth852 | 7 altre recensioni | Jan 2, 2024 |
 
Segnalato
ASSG.Library | 37 altre recensioni | Nov 21, 2023 |

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Statistiche

Opere
256
Utenti
8,131
Popolarità
#2,975
Voto
4.0
Recensioni
217
ISBN
934
Lingue
11
Preferito da
10

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