Jackie French

Josephine is a kangaroo - who loves to dance. Her little brother, Joey, tells her that kangaroos don′t dance, they hop - but Josephine continues to point her toes and leap through the air. When a ballet troupe comes to town and both the lead ballerina and understudy are injured, Josephine&prim...

Set against drought, flood, bushfire, war and jubilation, this is a story rooted in the words of our most famous national song. It is a love-song to a land and to a nation, told from the points of view of those who had no vote in 1901: the women, the Indigenous people, the Chinese market-gardeners, ...

A distant and fascinating world, where the future is not always as it seems, and the King's displeasure means death…Nikko lives in a small farming village in Greece near the stronghold of Mycenae in 1200 BC. When his sister Thetis is born, Nikko rescues her from the hillside where she has bee...

Meet Lizzy, whose family are in the clothing industry. Very few people probably know that Queen Victoria made the wearing of underpants popular. At the beginning of her reign very few women wore them. But Queen Victoria made tartans, perambulators and chloroform fashionable. By the time she died jus...

From the award-winning duo of Diary of a Wombat comes another hilarious tale of a bush animal you′ll never forget. Josephine is a kangaroo - who loves to dance. Her little brother, Joey, tells her that kangaroos don′t dance, they hop - but Josephine continues to point her toes and leap ...

Boo′s back … in another crazy adventure of Heroes, dinosaurs and the most fearsome weapon in the universes … the zombie sausage. Boojum Bark, werewolf puppy and would-be-Hero, is about to do what no other Hero has done before - go into the scariest universe of them all, the Gh...

A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with environmental hope - and practical solutions, such as common usage of solar and wind power. Lively, fun and positive, this book serves to give young people information about their w...

Josephine loves to dance. The emus show her how to point her toes. The eagles teach her how to soar to the music of the wind. Then the ballet comes to the sleep town of Shaggy Gully and Jospehine learns that there′s a new way to dance. This is how Josephine wants to dance, but will her dream ...

He sleeps. He eats. He gets bored. He creates havoc wherever he goes! He′s Mothball′s baby - and he′s even cuter, naughtier and more determined than his mum. Created by writer Jackie French and illustrator Bruce Whatley, Baby Wombat′s Week is an irresistible new picture bo...

So you think your family is wacky? Wait till you read these stories... How can Buster solve the disappearance of his werewolf parents when Uncle Wal keeps bugging him to act like a human all the time? What would TJ′s friends say if they knew his gran was a gorilla? Is Drackie′s Auntie C...

Beautifully illustrated children's book. Table of Contents Contents include: Pumpkin growing; which pumpkin; choosing a pumpkin variety; some pumpkins to try; medium sized vines; large pumpkins with trailing vines; huge prize or cattle pumpkins; growing pumpkins; keeping pumpkin seeds; when, w...

The award-winning team behind Diary of a Wombat have joined forces again to create another highly amusing picture book. Sean is a shearer and instead of a sheepdog to help him, he′s got a sheep sheep - Pete. After being rejected by the other shearers and their dogs, Sean and Pete set up a she...

The 'war to end all wars', as seen through the eyes of three young women. It is 1915. War is being fought on a horrific scale in the trenches of France, but it might as well be a world away from 16-year-old New Zealander Midge Macpherson, at school in England learning to be a young lady. But the war...

Anzac Day is the day when we remember and honour ANZAC traditions down the ages, from the first faltering march of wounded veterans in 1916 to the ever-increasing numbers of their descendants who march today. Containing reference to the many places the ANZACs have fought, and the various ways in whi...

The famous story of Simpson and his donkey - a true Anzac legend. This book examines the remarkable life of the man and the donkey who became iconic figures in the Gallipoli campaign, remembered by Allied and Turkish forces alike. Ages 9+.

A delightful and entertaining peek into the life of one very busy wombat! Find out how one wombat - between scratching, sleeping and eating - manages to fit the difficult job of training humans into her busy schedule. This book is for ages 3-7. Accolades Winner of Nielsen BookData/ABA Book of ...

WARNING: TOXIC! A grey nurse shark colony is under attack-an old mining dam has collapsed in a savage storm, sending a flood of toxic mud towards the sharks' breeding ground! Leo and Mozz need to rescue them before it's too late! But when the SkyTiger falls into trouble, will Leo and Mozz be the on...

Glam Rock is a famous pop star who performs with his tame tiger at his side. But Leo can sense something is wrong - Glam hasn't been telling the truth about his tiger, and Leo can read her terror and despair...she's crying out for help. Can Leo and Mozz rescue a tormented tiger from Glam's huge prop...

"Slept. Scratched. Slept." Indeed, it seems like Christmas will be just another day for the wombat . . . until she smells carrots! In this charming picture book, the star of "Diary of a Wombat" goes head to head with Santa's reindeer in competition for carrots--and wins. Then, as an accidental stowa...

He sleeps. He eats. He gets bored. He creates havoc wherever he goes! He's Mothball's baby - and he's even cuter, naughtier and more determined than his mum.

This is a story that shows how strong and devastating flood water can be to homes and livelihoods. It is inspired by the 2011 Queensland floods but it could be about any of the disasters that strike our land, and the events that turn everyday Australians into heroes. Flood depicts water mercilessly ...

Young readers are introduced to the cuddly yet slow-moving Australian wombat in this tongue-in-cheek account of one unusually articulate wombat and his busy week. Full color.

Self-sufficient gardens are beautiful - a ramble of productivity, and a profusion of smells and colour. Jackie will help you to create a 'Garden of Eden' in your own backyard.

A story of survival, second chances ...and a dance with danger. Young Billy Marks is a pickpocket, transported to the penal colony of New South Wales. He and his mate reckon they'll become bushrangers - but that's before Billy's had a chance to see the bush up close. And when he buys the big white b...

A baby wombat's work is never done! The star of the international bestseller Diary of a Wombat is back - with a new mouth to feed! Cuter, stroppier and even more determined than her mother ! meet Mothball's baby. Like any growing family, this baby wombat and her mum are finding it hard to fit into...

If you want to keep your house, pets and yourself free from the creepy-crawlies that bug you in this life, and you prefer to avoid sprays from earth-destroying cans of chemicals, Jackie French gives you a wide choice of chemical-free, organic repellents, baits, sprays, and lotions to make yourself. ...

Why buy your garden, when you can grow it at no cost? Why limit your creativity to your nursery's range, when there's much more to choose from all around you? Why spend on patented seeds and expensive seedlings, when nature's bounty can be yours for free? Written for Australian and New Zealand garde...

This book looks at flowers as the product of millions of years of evolution, their colours, shapes and smells as irresistable to humans as they are to birds, bees, wasps and other pollinators. It also looks at the medicinal powers of flowers, and how "witches" used to rely on their properties to cas...

The bombs were falling, the smoke was rising from the concentration camps, but all Hitler's daughter knew was lessons with Fraulein Gelber, the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold and infrequent visits from her beloved Duffi, her father. Was it just a story? Did Hitler's daughter rally exist? If you...

There's no need to water your garden! Or weed, prune, spray or dig it! In her decades of watching the bush and the animals around her, and of experimenting with hundreds of new growing strategies, Jackie has learnt to grow things by letting the plants - and nature - do most of the work for her. And,...

Concentrate on growing crops well, and you will find you have very few pest or disease problems to worry about. Those pests that persist can be controlled with the multitude of organic pesticides and fungicides Jackie has developed and tested in sixteen years of observation, experimentation and hard...

It's 1939, and for Georg, son of an English academic living in Germany, life is full of cream cakes and loving parents. It is also a time when his teacher measures the pupils' heads to see which of them have the most 'Aryan'- shaped heads. But when a university graduation ceremony turns into a pro-N...

Children's author Jackie French is renowned for her historical fiction, and the critically acclaimed best-selling Animal Stars series looks at history through the eyes of an animal. In DINGO: THE DOG WHO CONQUERED A CONTINENT, Jackie tells a story about the iconic Australian dingo. Set somewhere on ...

Leo thinks he's an ordinary kid, but he isn't - he can talk to animals and his best friend's a guinea pig! Mozz knows she's anything but ordinary. She's cool and clever, lives in a mansion with her mad scientist grandmother, and she soars through the sky in a rocket - the SkyTiger - saving wild anim...

Mozz and Leo take off in the SkyTiger with a load of vaccine darts to inoculate and protect the gorillas in Africa. But before they can locate all the secluded groups of primates and decide what to do with a seriously sick gorilla, they must deal with ruthless poachers.

Meet Lizzy, whose family are in the clothing industry. Very few people probably know that Queen Victoria made the wearing of underpants popular. At the beginning of her reign very few women wore them. But Queen Victoria made tartans, perambulators and chloroform fashionable. By the time she died ju...

A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with environmental hope - and practical solutions, such as common usage of solar and wind power. Lively, fun and positive, this book serves to give young people information about their worl...

It's 1789, and as the new colony in Sydney Cove is established, Surgeon John White defies convention and adopts Nanberry, an Aboriginal boy, to raise as his son. Nanberry is clever and uses his unique gifts as an interpreter to bridge the two worlds he lives in. With his white brother, Andrew, he wi...

Queen Victoria was Empress of half the world. She owned palaces and huge armies. Mighty sultans gave her precious jewels. But she didn't have any underpants! Meet Lizzy, whose family are in the clothing industry. Very few people probably know that Queen Victoria made the wearing of underpants popu...

Pamela the cow loves pears - and will do just about anything to get them. But will anyone else ever get to eat a pear again? Certainly not until she's had her fill...and moved on to something else! Selected for 2004 edition of The Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education. ...