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.
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
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
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
Elephant Alert
Gorilla Grab
Tiger tangle
Shark Attack
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