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Pages tagged “jackie french”
Brisbane Writers' Festival ‘Word Play' kids' program launched
10 June, 2009 The Brisbane Writers' Festival program for young readers, writers and illustrators ‘Word Play' has been announced. 
31 March, 2009 The shortlist for this year's Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year awards was announced today. 
25 March, 2009 Another instalment in Scholastic’s ‘Mates: Great Australian Yarns’ series, this one caught my eye as it features illustrations by one Andrew Marlton. 
14 January, 2009 Three ‘mini festivals' will replace the Canberra Readers' and Writers' Festival this year, according to ACT Writers Centre director Anne-Maree Britton. 
20 November, 2008 The YABBAs (Young Australian Best Book Award) were announced this week in Victoria. 
1 July, 2008 It’s Christmas Day in Shaggy Gully. All the animals are revelling in the joys of the holiday according to their various natures (kangaroos bouncing, kookaburras chortling, echidnas prickling) all except one, that is. 
1 June, 2008 There seems to be no end to Jackie French’s wonderful imagination and storytelling skills. 
16 March, 2008 Jackie French believes that good, historical writing really needs to come from source documents: things written at the time that give the feeling of the world as it was then, not just the facts. 
1 July, 2007 Jackie French, pillar of Australian juvenile fiction, brings us the second in her series of historical tales told from the point of view of animals. 
2 February, 2007 This is a simple novel about a young Australian man who, with ruling-class idealism about the world of gentlemen and ladies, goes to fight in the American civil war on the side of the South. 
2 January, 2003 This is an interesting mixture of fiction and history. 
7 January, 2001 The Hero Game presents a thought-provoking and scary what-if scenario. |
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