Paul Jennings (1) (1943–)
Autore di Unreal!
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Sull'Autore
Australian writer, Paul Jennings was born in England on April 30, 1943. He moved to Australia when he was six years old. He attended Frankston Teachers College and became a teacher. He then attended Lincoln Institute and became a speech pathologist. In 1989, he decided to become a full-time writer. mostra altro His first title Unreal!, winner of a Young Australians' Best Book Award (YABBA), was published in 1985. His other works include the Singenpoo series, the Wicked! series, the Deadly! series, and The Nest. He has won numerous awards including the Kids Reading Oz Choice Award, the Books I Like Best Yearly Award, the Angus and Robertson Bookworld Award and a COOL Award for his title The Paw Thing. He also received the Golden Puffin Award in 1992 for selling 1 million books in Australia. In addition to writing, he visits school and lectures at conferences and seminars on encouraging children to read. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Paul Jennings
Covered with Nails: and Other Stories to Shock Your Shock Off! (Puffin Short Stories, No 2) (1998) 18 copie
Three Stories 1 copia
CORAGEM 1 copia
Contos Coragem 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Jennings, Paul
- Data di nascita
- 1943-04-30
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
Australia - Luogo di nascita
- Heston, Middlesex, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Heston, Middlesex, England, UK
Australia - Istruzione
- Bentleigh West Primary School
Frankston Teachers' College
Lincoln Institute - Attività lavorative
- teacher
lecturer
speech therapist
children's book author - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Dromkeen Medal (2000)
Order of Australia
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Recensioni
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Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 113
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 4,544
- Popolarità
- #5,529
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 49
- ISBN
- 667
- Lingue
- 11
- Preferito da
- 2
Dear past Lauren: you're an idiot.
This is a cracking read, with the usual great Jennings humour and creepiness and relatability. I initially thought that with the gang and the dare it would be 'A Good Tip For Ghosts' the extended dance remix. Again, past Lauren is an idiot. Nobody should listen to her. There's way more to this book than that.
The author's note at the end was a nice little bonus: 'I didn't make [character spoiler] an Aboriginal man because it is not my right to tell that story.' After talking with Ambelin Kwaymullina at last year's Continuum, the importance of Aboriginal culture and storytelling, down to who has the right to use which parts of language, has been on my mind and I appreciate Paul's respect of that.… (altro)