Not surprisingly her 2002 picture book, Diary Of A Wombat, illustrated by Bruce Whatley, became an international best seller. In 2016 she received the Australian Book Industry Awards Pixie O’Harris award.įrench has studied the behavior and ecology of wombats for 40 years and is the director of The Wombat Foundation, which raises funds for research into the preservation of wombats. In 2016 French was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to literature as an author of children’s books, and as an advocate for improved youth literacy. She was awarded the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. It was her regular appearance on Burke’s Backyards on the television twenty years ago that encouraged my own foray into keeping chooks in the back garden. French is also an author of numerous books on ecology, gardening, pest control, wildlife and hens. She is considered one of Australia’s most popular and awarded children’s authors, writing across a number of children’s genres including picture books, history, fantasy and history fiction. Jackie French is an Australian author who has written over 140 books and has won more than 60 national and international awards.
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