When was jackie french born

No matter how good your writing style, you must have something to write about. Work out what you love and are passionate about, whether it's hamburgers or history. If you're not passionate about anything you are a deeply boring person and should only write books for snails.

Go back to sleep. After dinner - Answer letters; feed wombat. Speak sternly to wombat. Go to sleep. Are there any people that have played a big role in your path to success? Yes, hundreds, from my parents and especially my maternal grandmother and grandfather, my school teachers, especially Mrs Pauli and Mr Sullivan; the poet Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal who I knew as Auntie Kath Walker; my friends Noel Pratt, Angela Marshall, the late Judith Wright; my husband Bryan and my son.

Before you decided to make a career as an author, were you hoping to follow another career? I always wanted to be a writer, but would have liked archeology, medicine, law, and psychology too.

What type of setbacks have you had along the years? Too many to name, nor want to remember: prefer to think of the good, not the bad. What type of advice do you have for any aspiring authors? See the advice to writers section on the web site. How long did it take to write your first published book?

See the first novel section on the web site, but about three weeks. Why did you want to be a farmer? I loved the bush, and growing things. Mark Anderson.

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Career French began writing Rain Stones , her first book for children, when she was 30 years old, living in a shed and in need of money to register her car. Her editor said it was the messiest and worst-spelt manuscript ever submitted partly because Jackie was dyslexic, but also because the letter e on her typewriter wasn't working because of droppings left on her keyboard by a wombat , but the book ended up being shortlisted for the Australian Children's Book Council of Australia award for the Younger Readers Book of the Year and the NSW Premier's Award.

Her non-fiction books include the eight-book Fair Dinkum History series that covers 60, years of Australian history and is published by Scholastic and Let the Land Speak: A history of Australia - how the land created our nation. French's royalties for that book are donated towards wombat preservation and research. It toured Australia in and in the United States in Watch out for the eight species of snake.

Jackie writes for adults, young adults, and even younger humans, on history, ecology, and her award-winning historical fiction for all ages, but Or the story of how her first book was accepted because a wombat had left its droppings on her typewriter as, after 25 years of repeating it, she is bored. Jackie is also dyslexic and patron of literacy programmes across Australia with a wide and deep — if accidental — experience in learning differences and methods and their outcomes for students, as well as a passionate advocate for equal-opportunity education.

She still can't spell. The Rights of the Child Reader. Every child has the right to access the books they need; for pleasure, learning, empathy and to grow their brains. Every child has the right to read books in their mother language, about their own culture. Every child has the right to access the extraordinary heritage of the written knowledge of humanity.