Jackie French

Jackie is also an historian, ecologist, dyslexic, and a passionate worker for literacy, the right of all children to be able to read, and the power of books.

Jackie’s writing career spans 25 years, 148 wombats, over 140 books, 36 languages, 3,721 bush rats, and over 60 awards in Australia and overseas.

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Jackie’s vast body of work contains both fictional and non fictional accounts of the last 60,000 years of Australian history, with books like Nanberry: black brother white; The Girl from Snowy River, Tom Appleby: Convict Boy; The Night They Stormed Eureka; A Day to Remember created with Mark Wilson; and Flood, created with Bruce Whatley. Her non-fiction also includes an eight volume history of Australia for young people (The Dinkum History series).
Let the Land Speak: how our land created a nation (October 2013) is a work of history for adults, showing how the land itself contributed to iconic events from the first human foot on Australian soil to Eureka, Federation, Gallipoli, and how the land will continue to shape our future

4 thoughts on “Jackie French

  1. Somewhere Around the Corner
    Dancing with Ben Hall
    Soldier on the Hill
    Daughter of the Regiment
    Hitler’s Daughter
    Lady Dance
    The White Ship
    How the Finnegans Save the Ship
    Valley of Gold
    Tom Appleby

  2. Diary of a Wombat
    Pete the Sheep
    Josephine Wants to Dance
    The Shaggy Gully Times
    Emily and the Big Bad Bunyip
    Baby Wombat’s Week
    Queen Victoria’s Underpants
    The Tomorrow Book
    Christmas Wombat
    A Day to Remember
    Queen Victoria’s Christmas

  3. My Dog the Dinosaur
    MY Mum the Pirate
    My Dad the Dragon
    My Uncle Gus the Garden Gnome
    My Uncle Wal the Werewolf
    My Gran the Gorilla

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