![]() ![]() She and her husband and son live in a house made of stone from the creek, with a wombat named Pudge, a mob of larriken lyrebirds, a frequently drunk goanna, a rambling garden and a waterwheel that provides their power when it's too cloudy for the solar panels. Hello Everyone,This video is a Read Aloud of the book 'Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French & Bruce Whatley'Happy Reading, Gabrielle Costa. Jackie was born Sydney in 1953, grew up in Brisbane, graduated from the University of Queensland and moved to her present home in the NSW bush in her early twenties. ![]() But the spelling was due to she fact that she's dyslexic, and can't focus on single words to see if they're spelt properly or not. In 2016 Jackie became a Member of the Order of Australia for her contribution to children's literature and her advocacy for youth literacy. The messiness was mostly due to Smudge the wombat, who had a particular hatred for Jackie's typewriter (an old one she'd found at the dump) and left his droppings nightly on the keyboard. Jackie French AM is an award-winning writer, wombat negotiator, the 20142015 Australian Children's Laureate and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. but has been deeply loved by tens of thousands of readers since.) ![]() (It was described by the editor at HarperCollins as the messiest, worst spelt manuscript they'd ever received. Jackie French wrote her first children's novel, Rainstones, living in a shed with a wallaby called Fred, a black snake called Gladys and a wombat called Smudge. ![]()
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