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Jacqueline Anne "Jackie" French (born 29 November 1953) is an award-winning Australian author who has written over 140 books and has won more than 60 national and international awards.〔Sydney Morning Herald, ''Jackie French, laureate for good fun reading'', Dec 15, 2013, by Nick Galvin〕 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. She is also an author of numerous books on ecology, gardening, pest control, wombats, other wildlife and hens as well as fiction for adults. She is also a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines around Australia including the ''Australian Women's Weekly'' and the ''Canberra Times''.〔The Fifth Estate, ''Jackie French on listening to the land and lessons from history'', April 13, 2014, by Willow Aliento, http://www.thefifthestate.com.au/habitat/environment/interview-jackie-french-on-listening-to-the-land-and-lessons-from-history/61392〕〔The Canberra Times, Dec 13, 2014, ''Jackie French: Best plants for the barbecue'', http://www.canberratimes.com.au/it-pro/jackie-french-best-plants-for-the-barbecue-20141213-11zyim.html〕 She also presented gardening segments on the long-running Australian TV series ''Burke's Backyard''.〔ABC TV, ''Talking Heads with Peter Thompson'', http://www.abc.net.au/tv/talkingheads/txt/s2691580.htm〕 ==Career== Jackie 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.〔The Australian Government, ''Australian of the Year Awards'', National Finalist Senior Australian of the Year 2015, http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/honour-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=1265〕〔Australian Writers' Centre, ''Jackie French: Multi-award-winning author'', http://www.writerscentre.com.au/community/podcasts/jackie-french-multi-award-winning-author/〕 Jackie's books include both fictional, factional and non-fictional accounts of Australian history including ''Nanberry: Black Brother White'', ''Tom Appleby'', ''A Day to Remember'', created with Mark Wilson, ''A Waltz for Matilda'', the first in an eight-volume series, ''The Girl from Snowy River'', ''The Road to Gundagai'', ''The Night They Stormed Eureka'' and ''Flood'' and ''Fire'', both created with Bruce Whatley. Her non-fiction books include the eight-book ''Fair Dinkum History'' series that covers 60,000 years of Australian history and is published by Scholastic 〔Scholastic Australia, ''Scholastic Authors and Illustrators, Jackie French,'' http://www.scholastic.com.au/common/books/contributor_profile.asp?ContributorID=549&channel=〕 and ''Let the Land Speak: A history of Australia - how the land created our nation.''〔ABC, ''Let the land speak: how has the landscape shaped your family history?'', Oct 11, 2013, by Natasha Mitchell, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/natasha-mitchell/2914164〕 A number of her books are also part of the Australia Curriculum, including ''Nanberry: Black Brother White'', ''Diary of a Wombat'', ''Flood'', ''A Day to Remember'' (with Nark Wilson), ''Baby Wombat's Week'' (with Bruce Whatley), ''Pennies for Hitler'', ''The Girl from Snowy River'' and the work she is possibly best known for, ''Diary of a Wombat'', created with artist Bruce Whatley. .〔English for the Australian Curriculum, ''Nanberry: Black Brother White by Jackie French'', http://e4ac.edu.au/units/year-4/pop-s1-01.html〕〔GPS Library Resource Centre, http://www.graftonpublicschool.com.au/Libweb/ncenglishstage1.html〕〔Primary English Teaching Association Australia, ''Flood by Jackie French'', http://www.petaa.edu.au/teaching-resources/literature-singles/flood〕〔Australian School Library Association, ''Primary School Resources to support the Australian History Curriculum'', http://www.asla.org.au/site/defaultsite/filesystem/documents/primaryhistoryresourcesapril2012.pdf〕〔English Teachers' Association Conference, ''Text Choices for the Australian Curriculum'', Nov 23, 2013, http://www.englishteacher.com.au/Portals/EnglishTeachers/PublicDocs/Conference%20papers/Innovation13/S2.8Sykes.pdf〕 Her most recent works include ''To Love a Sunburnt Country'' and ''The Beach they called Gallipoli'' (with Bruce Whatley), ''Fire'' (with Bruce Whatley) and ''The Hairy Nosed Wombats Find a New Home (with Sue Degennaro) ''. Jackie's royalties for that book are donated towards wombat preservation and research.〔The Beach They called Gallipoli: Jackie French and Bruce Whatley in conversation at the State Library of NSW'', http://veterans.nsw.gov.au/centenary-activity/the-beach-they-called-gallipoli-jackie-french-and-bruce-whatley-in-conversation-at-the-state-library-of-nsw/〕〔National Library of Australia, Catalogue, ''To love a sunburnt country'', http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6451829〕〔NSW Government, ''100 Years of Anzac''〕〔National Library of Australia, ''The hairy-nosed wombats find a new home Jackie French'', http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/187661832?selectedversion=NBD52245999〕 Her book, ''Hitler's Daughter'', has been made into a stage play by Monkey Baa Theatre Company. It toured Australia in 2012 and in the USA in 2013. The play won the Robert Helpman Award in 2007, the Drover Award in 2007 and the 2006 Drover Special Panel Award.〔Harper Collins, Teacher's hub, ''Monkey Baa Theatre Company presents Hitler's Daughter, based on the novel by Jackie French'', Oct 16, 2012, http://teachershub.com.au/2012/10/16/monkey-baa-theatre-company-presents-hitlers-daughter-based-on-the-novel-by-jackie-french/〕〔Monkey Baa Theatre Company, ''Hitler's Daughter'', http://monkeybaa.com.au/show/hitlers-daughters/〕 Monkey BAA also turned her book ''Pete the Sheep'', created with Bruce Whatley, into a musical, which toured Australia in 2014.〔The Age, Melbourne, A decade in wombat years, Nov 24, 2012, by Diana Plater http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/a-decade-in-wombat-years-20121123-29tjo.html#ixzz3IF6na7dP〕 (詳細はウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jackie French」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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