Jackie French

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  • Bibliography:
    145 Books (14 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1900
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Animal Stars

1 - The Goat Who Sailed The World (Apr-2010)
2 - The Dog Who Loved A Queen (Feb-2010)
3 - The Camel Who Crossed Australia (Feb-2010)
4 - The Donkey Who Carried the Wounded (Feb-2010)
5 - The Horse Who Bit a Bushranger (Aug-2010)

Butter O'Bryan

1 - The Ghost of Howlers Beach (Mar-2020)
2 - The Vanishing at the Very Small Castle (Apr-2021)

Children of the Valley

1 - The Music from the Sea (Dec-2021)
2 - The City in the Sand (Dec-2021)
3 - The Metal Men (Dec-2021)

Fairdinkum Histories

1 - Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years Before 1788 (Feb-2009)
2 - Grim Crims and Convicts (Feb-2009)
3 - Rotters and Squatters (Feb-2009)
4 - Gold graves and glory (Feb-2009)
5 - Nation of swaggies (Feb-2009)
6 - Weevils War Wallabies (Feb-2009)
7 - Rockin' Rollin' Hair & Hippies (Jun-2010)

Funny Families

My Dad the Dragon (Jan-2007)
My Dog the Dinosaur (Jan-2007)
My Mom the Pirate (Jan-2007)
My Uncle Wal The Werewolf (Jan-2007)

The Girls Who Changed the World

1 - Ming and Flo Fight for the Future (Mar-2022)
2 - Ming and Marie Spy for Freedom (Aug-2022)
3 - Ming and Hilde Lead a Revolution (Jun-2023)

Hitler's Daughter

1 - Hitler's Daughter (1999)
2 - Pennies for Hitler (Jun-2012)

Miss Lily

1 - Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies (Apr-2017)
2 - The Lily and the Rose (Apr-2018)
3 - The Lily in the Snow (Apr-2019)
3.5 - Christmas in Paris (Dec-2019)
4 - Lilies, Lies and Love (Apr-2020)
5 - Legends of the Lost Lilies (Apr-2021)

The Outlands Trilogy

1 - In the Blood (Mar-2011)
2 - Blood Moon (Oct-2010)
3 - Flesh and Blood (Jul-2014)

Phaery Named Phredde

1 - A Phaery Named Phredde and Other Stories to Eat with a Banana (Nov-2010)
2 - Phredde and a Frog Named Bruce and Other Stories to Eat with a Watermelo n (Dec-2010)
3 - Phredde and the Zombie Librarian and Other Stories to Eat with a Blood Plum (Jan-2011)
4 - Phredde & The Temple Of Gloom (May-2010)
5 - Phredde & The Leopard Skin Librarian (Apr-2010)
6 - Phredde and the Purple Pyramid (Jul-2014)
7 - Phredde and the Vampire Footy Team (Jan-2011)
8 - Phredde And The Ghostly Underpants (Apr-2010)

School for Heroes

1 - Lessons for a Werewolf Warrior (Jul-2014)
2 - Dance of the Deadly Dinosaurs (May-2010)

The Secret History

1 - Birrung: The Secret Friend (Feb-2015)
2 - Barney and the Secret of the Whales (Feb-2016)
3 - The Secret of the Black Bushranger (Feb-2017)
4 - Barney and the Secret of the French Spies (Feb-2018)
5 - The Secret of the Youngest Rebel (Feb-2019)

Wacky Families

4 - My Uncle Gus the Garden Gnome (Dec-2010)
5 - My Uncle Wal The Werewolf (Jan-2007)
6 - My Gran The Gorilla (May-2010)
7 - My Auntie Chook The Vampire Chicken (Nov-2010)
8 - My Pa The Polar Bear (Feb-2010)

Waltz for Matilda

1 - A Waltz for Matilda (Dec-2010)
2 - The Girl From Snowy River (Dec-2012)
3 - The Road to Gundagai (Dec-2013)
4 - To Love a Sunburnt Country (Dec-2014)
5 - The Ghost by the Billabong (Dec-2015)
6 - If Blood Should Stain the Wattle (Dec-2016)
7 - Facing the Flame (Dec-2017)
8 - The Last Dingo Summer (Nov-2018)
9 - Clancy of the Overflow (Nov-2019)

Book List in Order: 145 titles

  • Summerland

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    Iddy cannot remember her name, or where she comes from, or anything about her people. But she finds understanding and friends in the peace and calm of Summerland. Her friends are reassuring - Iddy will remember, when she is ready. In the Summerland t...

  • The Tribe That Sang to Trees

    Part of the Children of the Valley series, this book features Possum and Mopoke who have to again face many challenges, adventures and discoveries - not only about life in general, but for Possum also about herself ...and her mother....

  • The Secret Beach

    > Emily is drawn to this beach, with its sudden roaring tides and sharp rocky headland. She can escape there and forget that her mother has left her with a father she has never known. It is on the beach that Emily meets Margaret and believes she has ...

  • The Book of Unicorns

    there are worlds where fields of dry, baked earth are side by side with enchanted gardens, and places where the strangest creatures are the truest friends. these are the places where unicorns heal hearts and minds, and a place where dreams come true....

  • Hitler's Daughter

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    Hitler's Daughter - 1

    Something was wrong. Unfinished. It ate at Mark all the way through school. It was Anna's story, of course. That's what was wrong. She wasn't telling it properly, not like it should be told. Because somehow Mark knew that the story was THERE, i...

  • Annie's Pouch

  • How the Finnegans Saved the Ship

    Set in 1913, the year after the Titanic sank, this is the story of the voyage to Australia made by the Finnegan children and their mother, who travelled on a boat as far removed from the Titanic as possible, but also managed to hit an iceberg. Luckil...

  • Ride the Wild Wind

    From the pen of Australia's most respected and loved children's writers, comes a collection of stories about horses ââ,¬Â¦ and even stories from the horse's mouth!

    The story of the first horse to be tamed hundreds of years ago by a young gi...

  • Diary of a Wombat

    Wombats are cuddly-looking, slow-moving Australian animals. Their favorite activities are eating, sleeping, and digging holes. Here, in the words of one unusually articulate wombat, is the tongue-in-cheek account of a busy week; eating, sleeping, dig...



  • Too Many Pears!

    Pamela the cow loves pears and will do anything to get them. But will Amy find a way to keep the pears safe? Watch Pamela perform all kids of antics to get to her favorite fruit.
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  • Pete the Sheep-Sheep

    Shaun is the new sheep shearer in Shaggy Gully. Since shearing is such hard work, all the other shearers have sheep dogs to help them. But not Shaun. His partner is Pete . . . a sheep- sheep!

    Pete has a polite way of rounding up his charges, a...

  • One Perfect Day

    Billy's having a really bad day: he has no family, no friends, no fun -- and now he has to save his four-legged friend, Dusty, from certain death! Will the strangers by the side of the road be able to help him before it's too late?...

  • Vampire Slugs on Callisto

  • My Dad the Dragon

    Funny Families

    HORACE'S DAD HAS SILVER WINGS AND A GREEN AND ORANGE tAIL. His mum hasn't been able to cast a spell right yet, and his sister Grub - the Fayre Elayne - invents weird things like a box that can take instant pictures. At King Arthur's School for Knight...

  • My Dog the Dinosaur

    Funny Families

    GUNKS DAD WEARS FLUFFY CHICKEN SLIPPERS. His sister, Fliss, is into weightlifting and his mum is searching for aliens. Gunk has Spot, his pet dog or is it? (A dog, that it.) Spot has a long neck, a flat tail and eats lettuce. Lots of it. Come to thnk...

  • My Mom the Pirate

    Funny Families

    Cecil's mom wears long black boots and an even longer sword, and she makes her enemies walk the plank. All Cecil wants is a normal life. But with parent teacher night coming soon, Cecil is worried. Will his mom embarrass him in front of all of his fr...

  • My Uncle Wal The Werewolf

    Funny Families
    Wacky Families - 5

    BUStER LIVES IN tHE HAPPIESt WOLF CLAN AROUND. Dad can catch dried cow pats with his teeth, Mum's corgi milkshakes are to die for (unless you happen to be a corgi) and Aunty Paws mkes one of the best dead rat sandwich in the world. One day Mum and Da...

  • Rover

    He was just a fat runt of a puppy. He didn't look much like his namesake, Mighty Rover, but when the witch gave Riki Snarfari his True Name, it stuck.

    She was just a poor farm girl. She lived alone with her mother in a quiet seaside village...

  • The Day I Was History



  • Josephine Wants to Dance

    The popular wombat’s friendFrom the award-winning duo behind the bestselling Diary of a Wombat (the famous wombat even makes an appearance at the ballet complete with a tutu!), Josephine Wants to Dance encourages all readers to never give up and to...

  • Gold graves and glory

    Fairdinkum Histories - 4

    For 60,000 years the rest of the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain's criminals and poor. Now a con man had found gold and suddenly everyone was heading to Australia: adventur...

  • Grim Crims and Convicts

    Fairdinkum Histories - 2

    It was an incredible idea-to found a colony of convicts eight months' sail away from Great Britain. In a land with no cities, no farms, no rich spices. Just savages in huts. The Dutch, the French and the Portuguese had known about this place for...

  • Nation of swaggies

    Fairdinkum Histories - 5

    The Australian colonies had come a long way since they were a dump for grim crims and convicts. Life was comfortableat least for some. But soon drought would send swaggies waltzing their matildas along the roads, and bad times would make politicians...

  • Rotters and Squatters

    Fairdinkum Histories - 3

    There were two tiny colonies at the end of the world-one in New South Wales and one in Van Diemen's Land-perched on the edge of a vast and mostly unmapped continent. There were four main towns-Sydney and Parramatta in New South Wales, and Hobart...

  • Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years Before 1788

    Fairdinkum Histories - 1

    In 1493 the Pope gave Portugal the half of the world that included eastern Australia. By 1770 the Dutch had claimed the western, northern and southern coastlines of the continent-and Cook claimed the east coast for the British in 1770. But unlike the...

  • Weevils War Wallabies

    Fairdinkum Histories - 6

    1920-1945, an iconic period in Australian history: QANTAS founded, the Sydney Harbour Bridge built, Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup and dies in the US, Don Bradman wows the world at the wicket and becomes the main target in the Bodyline series. The D...

  • The Camel Who Crossed Australia

    Animal Stars - 3

  • The Dog Who Loved A Queen

    Animal Stars - 2

    Book 2 in the Animal Stars series - where history comes alive through the eyes of special animals. To outsiders, Mary is a queen and a threat, but to her devoted dog Folly, she is his world

    To the world outside her luxurious prison, Mary Q...

  • The Donkey Who Carried the Wounded

    Animal Stars - 4



  • My Pa The Polar Bear

    Wacky Families - 8

    Find out just how wacky some families can be in the eighth book of this hilarious series. Fuzz and his family live at the zoo. Fuzz's dad is a blood-thirsty tiger, his mum a mud-cake-making rhinoceros, his sister a tap-dancing giraffe and his brothe...

  • The Goat Who Sailed The World

    Animal Stars - 1

    Captain Cook's goat is the first of many historical animals to bring the past to life. the HM Bark Endeavour is sailing to tahiti to map the transit of Venus, but there are rumours that once the task is completed, Lieutenant James Cook has a set of s...

  • Macbeth And Son

    A modern tale of truth and lies woven with a story from the past.Luke lives in modern-day Australia with his mother and stepfather, Sam. He is burdened by a guilty secret: Sam has helped him to cheat in an entrance exam for a prestigious school.Lulac...

  • The Night They Stormed Eureka

    A story about dreams, gold, rebellion ... and an unlikely friendship across timeIt's 1854, and the Ballarat goldfields are a place of dreams and rebellion as Sam, a homeless teenager, is called back to the past to join the Puddlehams, who run 'the be...

  • Pharaoh

    SHORTLISTED CBC BOOK OF THE YEAR, OLDER READERS, ACT BOOK OF THE YEAR AND YABBA. The people call Prince Narmer 'the Golden One' Handsome and talented, he is destined to be King of Thinis, the greatest town in Egypt and, for Narmer, the centre of th...

  • Phredde & The Leopard Skin Librarian

    Phaery Named Phredde - 5

    What do you do when your school librarian starts dressing in leopard-skin and goes off chasing dinosaurs? A school excursion to the Big Koala goes horribly wrong when Phredde, Pru and Bruce - and their vampire teacher Mrs Olsen, and Miss Richards, li...

  • Phredde And The Ghostly Underpants

    Phaery Named Phredde - 8

    Another spell-binding and spooky story starring Phredde, a fractious but fun-loving phaery, Bruce, a mosquito-eating frog, and Pru, an everyday-normal school girl - except that she lives in a fairy castle, keeps pet piranhas, has a werewolf for a bro...

  • A Rose for the Anzac Boys

    The 'War to end all Wars', as seen through the eyes of three young womenWar is being fought on a horrific scale in the trenches of France, but it might as well be a world away from sixteen-year-old New Zealander Midge Macpherson, at school in England...

  • They Came On Viking Ships

    Can enemy warriors become your friends? A story of adventure in a new land When Vikings raid and destroy a small coastal village, Hekja and her dog, Snarf, are captured and taken to Greenland. In this harsh and cold land, Hekja becomes a thrall - a ...

  • Dance of the Deadly Dinosaurs

    School for Heroes - 2

    The sequel to LESSONS FOR A WEREWOLF WARRIOR - continuing the crazy adventures of Boo, werewolf and hero-in-the making. Ages: 8 - 12 Boo's back ... in another crazy adventure of Heroes, dinosaurs and the most fearsome weapon in the universes ... the ...



  • My Gran The Gorilla

    Wacky Families - 6

    TJ's gran has hairy legs and arms. She also makes the best banana cake in the universe, as well as baked bananas, choc-coated bananas and Roast Lamb Surprise (which is mostly bananas) too. In fact, there is only one little problem about having a gori...

  • Phredde & The Temple Of Gloom

    Phaery Named Phredde - 4

    Prudence is invited by her father's distant werewolf cousins to their gloomy castle to hunt for some missing 'treasure'. Phredde and Bruce accompany Prudence, who is well aware that if she fails then her father will have to take her place. the zombie...

  • Booms, Busts and Bushfires

    Telling it like it really was-true-blue Aussie history! Australia had changed before, but slowly. Now everything was fast! Attitudes were evolving, technology was changing every aspect of life, and people were starting to recognise the damage we were...

  • Wonderfully Wacky Families

    A collection of four more favourites from the Wacky Families series. 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 ...

  • Rockin' Rollin' Hair & Hippies

    Fairdinkum Histories - 7

    World War II was over, and it was a good time to be Australian. Rock 'n' roll, television and the Olympics had come down under. But underneath it all was the menace of the Cold War, and then came the horrors of Korea and Vietnam. Why couldn...

  • One Big Wacky Family

    A collection of four favourites from the Wacky Families series. there's no such thing as a normal family! But some are wackier than others... Cecil's Mum wears long black boots and carries a sword; Gunk's dog Spot loves lettuce and seems to be growin...

  • The Warrior The Story of a Wombat

    At first his whole world had been the pouch; the sweet scent of his mother, her warmth, and the steady thud of her pulse. Now, he wants to find another world. the warrior is ready to explore. But finding a world, his world, away from the safety of th...

  • Oracle

  • The Horse Who Bit a Bushranger

    Animal Stars - 5

    An exciting new tale of a brumby, a boy and a bushranger in the Animal Stars series. 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 reckons he...

  • Diary of a Baby Wombat

    The inimitable wombat who shared her adventures (eating, scratching, digging, sleeping) in the wildly successful Diary of a Wombat is back--with a baby! This time, it's the baby who tells the story. And a perfect wombat story it is, featuring eating,...



  • How the Aliens From Alpha Centauri Invaded My Maths Class and Turned Me Into a Writer...and How You Can Be One Too

    Do you like to fly to the moons of Saturn or visit talking wombats Do you like to daydream Do you eat chocolate Have you ever wondered how your favourite authors create the fantastic worlds their characters inhabit And have you ever wanted to write y...

  • The Fascinating History of Your Lunch

    the Fascinating History of Your Lunch is an historical look at food and the food from right around the world. Who invented cheese? Or bread or margarine? Where did lettuce and tomato plants originally come from? the plants we eat nowadays come from a...

  • Somewhere around the Corner

    Just shut your eyes and picture yourself walking around the corner. that's what my friend told me. Somewhere around the corner and you'll be safe. the demonstration was wild, out of control. Barbara was scared. She saw the policeman running towards h...

  • Blood Moon

    The Outlands Trilogy - 2

    the body lay at the bottom of the stairs. He wore red and green pyjamas. It took me a second to realise the red was blood. An old man, his eyes were still open. For one dreadful moment I thought he was still alive. But no one can live with a hole whe...

  • My Auntie Chook The Vampire Chicken

    Wacky Families - 7

    We’ve all got wacky families, it’s just that some are wackier than others â€" find out just how wacky some families can be in the sixth book of this hilarious series. We've all got wacky families, it's just that some are wackier than others - fin...

  • A Phaery Named Phredde and Other Stories to Eat with a Banana

    Phaery Named Phredde - 1

    Beautiful new editions of popular titles that will entice a whole new generation of readers to the exploits of Phredde and her friends. A Phaery Named Phredde and other stories to eat with a banana Meet Phredde, the coolest phaery in the universe. Ph...

  • Missing You, Love Sara

    there are hundreds and thousands of Missing Persons ... whether they have changed identity to remain hidden from those who love them, whether they have been abducted or some other reason is not always known. Missing You, Love Sara is a story of such ...

  • My Uncle Gus the Garden Gnome

    Wacky Families - 4

    We've all got wacky families, it's just that some are wackier than others - find out how wacky in the fourth book of this hilarious series, My Uncle Gus the Garden Gnome. tom has the happiest family around. Dad is Senior Bogeyman for the entire east ...

  • Phredde and a Frog Named Bruce and Other Stories to Eat with a Watermelo n

    Phaery Named Phredde - 2

    Beautiful new editions of popular titles that will entice a whole new generation of readers to the exploits of Phredde and her friends. Phredde and a Frog Named Bruce and other stories to eat with a watermelon When your teacher's a vampire, your brot...

  • Tom Appleby, Convict Boy

    A story of transportation and life in a new world from Australia's Children's Laureate At the tender age of eight, chimney sweep Tom Appleby is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay. As one of the members of the First Fleet...

  • A Waltz for Matilda

    Waltz for Matilda - 1

    The story behind Banjo Paterson's iconic Australian song.

    'Once a jolly swagman camped by a BillabongUnder the shade of a Coolibah treeAnd he sang as he watched and waited till his Billy boiledYou'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me...'

    In 18...

  • Phredde and the Vampire Footy Team

    Phaery Named Phredde - 7

    Further adventures of Phredde the feisty, funky phaery and her friends Pru and Bruce (the boy prince who'd rather stay being a frog). It's a new term, and things look GREAt! the new headmaster has outlawed homework, and every kid will get six free ic...

  • Phredde and the Zombie Librarian and Other Stories to Eat with a Blood Plum

    Phaery Named Phredde - 3

    Beautiful new editions of popular titles that will entice a whole new generation of readers to the exploits of Phredde and her friends. Phredde and the Zombie Librarian and other stories to eat with a blood plum there's a grey-flesh zombie librarian ...

  • In the Blood

    The Outlands Trilogy - 1

    She has been banished from the city to a remote area and a murdered girl lands on her doorstep ... Danielle has always been 'linked' to others so when her links were cut and she was banished from the city it was a shock in more ways than one. She no ...

  • The Tomorrow Book

    From bestselling author, Jackie French comes a book about the possibilities from the greener world of tomorrow. Suitable for ages 4-8. A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with...

  • Baby Wombat's Week

  • Nanberry

  • Diary of a Christmas Wombat

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  • Pennies for Hitler

    Hitler's Daughter - 2

    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. Bu...

  • Christmas Wombat

    “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 competiti...

  • Emily and the Big Bad Bunyip

  • The Girl From Snowy River

    Waltz for Matilda - 2

  • Pete the Sheep

  • Dinosaurs Love Cheese

    Giraffes can′t resist the trees, I like milk and sandwiches ... But who stole the cheese?...

  • Dark Wind Blowing

    Mike is just like any other normal kid - he lives with his mum in an ordinary house, in a small town, where nothing unusual ever happens. His next-door neighbour is Lance Loosley, a boy who's known at school as 'Loser' because he's so unpopular. Lose...

  • The Road to Gundagai

    Waltz for Matilda - 3

    Blue Lawrence has escaped the prison of her aunt's mansion to join The Magnifico Family Circus, a travelling troupe that brings glamour and laughter to country towns gripped by the Depression. Blue hides her crippled legs and scars behind the sparkle...

  • My Name is Not Peaseblossom

    Titania rose to her feet. 'What is going on here, Peaseblossom?' she demanded. I bowed to her. 'I apologise, Your Majesty. But I'd rather be known as Pete.' 'Pete?' She frowned. 'That's no name for a fairy.&#...

  • Good Dog, Hank!

    This is the story of a dog called Hank, who obeys all the rules ... by interpreting them in his own way. A very funny picture book about a dog who is convinced he is doing the right thing - and a family who love him, no matter what. this is the story...

  • I am Juliet

    The world's most famous love story told by one of Australia's most respected authors Ages: 10+ this is the well-known story of Juliet Capulet and her love for Romeo. It also the story about the increasing helplessness Juliet feels as she real...

  • Soldier on the Hill

    the hole was moving! the walls were falling down... there was a rope under his arms. there was a face above. An anxious face, yelling something down to him, something he didn't understand. A strange face, with something wrong about the eyes. tanned s...

  • Flesh and Blood

    The Outlands Trilogy - 3

    the thrilling finale to the Outlands trilogy. the City has called on Danielle Forest, Virtual Engineer, to find the source of a new influenza epidemic that is infecting the City and threatening the Outlands. the disease partially kills, and those aff...

  • Lessons for a Werewolf Warrior

    School for Heroes - 1

    Werewolves, wacky creatures and lots of crazy humour - sounds like another hilarious series from Jackie French!! Ages 8-10 Boojum Bark is a werewolf - and a hero. He doesn't really want to be, but it's the only way he'll save his mum. Now he has to g...

  • Phredde and the Purple Pyramid

    Phaery Named Phredde - 6

    Phredde, Pru and Bruce are back and this time they're in ancient Egypt. Will the pyramids survive Instead of just roaring like all volcanoes that are school bells do, it erupts and a tunnel opens. Phredde, Pru and Bruce can't help but enter the tunne...

  • Daughter of the Regiment

    Harry and Cissie live 150 years apart. What is the mystery that links them? there was a light in the corner of the chook-house, just below the perches. It was bright and strangely piercing, like a bit of sun had wandered in by mistake. Who is the gir...

  • MOONSTONES

  • My Mum the Pirate

    Whoever said having a pirate for a mum was fun? Cecil's mum wears long black boots and an even longer sword, and she makes her enemies walk the plank. Putrid Percival serves sea monster soup for dinner when Cecil would rather eat pizza. And Filthy Fr...

  • The Book of Horses and Unicorns

    From Australia's Children's Laureate comes a delightful collection of stories about horses and unicorns. take a journey through the ages and around the world- from ancient Greece, to the time of Genghis Khan to Arthurian England and then to outback A...

  • To Love a Sunburnt Country

    Waltz for Matilda - 4

    Ages: 11 years+ and crossover The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy is 16 and left school to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow was famed for. Now Nancy's family has sent her to Malaya to bring ho...

  • Birrung: The Secret Friend

    The Secret History - 1

    The first in a new series that focuses on a secret part of our history This is the story of Boots, the ten-year-old orphaned son of a convict woman. Boots has survived Newgate and the voyage to Australia and his mother's death, and he now hides his ...

  • Ophelia: Queen of Denmark

    Following on from I AM JULIET (August 2014), this is the second title in a new series for young people that focuses on the reinterpretation of Shakespeare's classic and enduring plays. Ages: 10+

    She is the girl who will be que...

  • Pumpkin Scones and Miracles at the Sunshine Land Cafe

    The fifth title in the sweeping Matilda SagaHippies wear beads, demonstrators march against the Vietnam War, and the world waits to see the first human steps on the moon's surface.But at Gibbers Creek, Jed Kelly sees ghosts, from the past and future,...

  • The Ghost by the Billabong

    Waltz for Matilda - 5

  • Barney and the Secret of the Whales

    The Secret History - 2

    What is the sailor's secret about the treasure of Australia's colony?

    The second book in a series that explores little-known history about Australia's fascinating past.

    Barney Bean is keen to make his fortune and he hears a secret...

  • Walking The Boundaries

    'French knows how to conjure [an] imagined past, full of detail about how people lived during particular periods and within particular cultures'-- ViewpointMartin lives in the city with his mum. He's come to walk the boundaries of the farm that's bee...

  • The Diary of William Shakespeare, Gentleman

    THE DIARY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, GENT is part comedy, part love story, the threads of Shakespeare's life drawn from his plays. Could the world's greatest writer truly put down his pen forever to become a gentleman? He was a boy who escap...

  • Rainstones

    Anniversary edition of the first book Jackie French published with A & R. This is where a truly remarkable career began.'Rain Stones' and the other stories in this collection reveal that the country is a magical place, that there is an extra dime...

  • If Blood Should Stain the Wattle

    Waltz for Matilda - 6

    It's 1972 in Gibber's Creek, and across the nation, the catchcry is, 'It's time'. 'And we must sing a rebel song And join in rebel chorus.' In 1972 in Gibber's Creek, and across the nation, the catchcry is, 'It's time'. Time for old folk, time for yo...

  • The Secret of the Black Bushranger

    The Secret History - 3

    The third in a series that explores our secret history By the 1790s orphaned Barney Bean finally has his own farm in the early NSW colony. All his dreams are coming true! But now we are to learn of Barney's biggest secret yet: how he helped Australia...

  • Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies

    Miss Lily - 1

    THE STORY IS EQUAL PARTS DOWNTOWN ABBEY AND WARTIME ACTION , WITH ENOUGH ROMANCE AND INTRIGUE TO MAKE IT 100% NOT- PUT- DOWN-ABLE. Australian Woman's Weekly

    A tale of espionage, love and passionate heroism.

    Inspired by true eve...

  • Goodbye, Mr Hitler

    'A COMPELLING, BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED NOVEL FOR YOUNG READERS' -- Daily Telegraph This is the story of Johannes, and Frau Timmins, and the strange girl now known as 'Helga'. It is also the story of how they survived the death camps, the vast wilderness ...

  • Third Witch

    A searing story of passion, betrayal, battles and love, this is Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' stripped of superstition, and its power and beauty refined into fewer words where good balances the evil and there is a happy ending - for some.Following on from ...

  • Koala Bare

    FOR TOO LONG KOALAS HAVE BEEN CALLED BEARS For too long koalas have been called bears.But this koala is out to prove to the world that he is BARE!And that never, ever, ever can a koala be called a bear ...From the internationally renowned author of t...

  • With Love from Miss Lily

    From the author of Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies comes a special free gift for her readers. A moving and heart-warming story that is perfect for Christmas - and beyond.December1918Thisfirst peacetime Christmas should be perfect. Butthis is a ceasefire, n...

  • Facing the Flame

    Waltz for Matilda - 7

    'GRIPPING, EMOTIONAL AND MOVING'-- New Idea There have been fires before, but not like this.In 1978, as the hot wind howls and the grass dries, all who live at Gibber's Creek know their land can burn. But when you love your land, you fight for it.For...

  • Barney and the Secret of the French Spies

    The Secret History - 4

    The new title in the critically acclaimed series that explores Australia's early Colonial secret historyIn1798 orphaned Barney Bean now has a flourishing farm in the New SouthWales colony and everything he ever dreamed of ... except his childhood fri...

  • The Lily and the Rose

    Miss Lily - 2

    'The story is equal parts Downton Abbey and wartime action, with enough romance and intrigue to make it 100% not-put-down-able.'-- Australian Women's Weekly on Miss Lily's Lovely LadiesAustralian heiress Sophie Higgs was 'a rose of no-man's land', fo...

  • Just A Girl

    Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a truly extraordinary woman. And after 2000 years, the story of her brave and remarkable life continues to inspire and enthrall us, as that young woman from Nazareth wasnever 'just a girl'. In 72 AD, as the Roman army p...

  • Christmas Lilies

    This story is equal parts Downton Abbey and Wartime Action, with enough romance and intrigue to make it 100% not-put-down-able.'- Australian Women's Weekly on Miss Lily's Lovely LadiesParis,Christmas 1914Despite her love for Huw, Elspeth will not giv...

  • The Last Dingo Summer

    Waltz for Matilda - 8

    'GRIPPING, EMOTIONAL AND MOVING'- New Idea on Facing the Flame (The Matilda Saga, Book 7)A killer lurks behind the kindness of the Gibber's Creek community. Under the burnt timber of the church, the police have found the body of Merv Ignatious, the m...

  • Dingo

  • Dippy's Big Day Out

    An 'Ice Age' meets Diary of a Wombat storyDippy is a diprotodon, the BIGGEST, friendliest wombat who lived 100,000 years ago.All Dippy wants is happy friends, a place to sleep and lots to eat.Who knew that could be such an adventure?Based on a concep...

  • The Secret of the Youngest Rebel

    The Secret History - 5

    'HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR ALL READERS'-- ReadPlus on Barney and the Secret of the WhalesThe whisper in the darkness is: rebellion! (Or: death or liberty!)Frog is an orphan, a pickpocket, starving on the streets of Parramatta in 1804. But when the tall,...

  • Millie Loves Ants

    From the award-winning talented duo who created THE HAIRY-NOSED WOMBATS FIND A NEW HOME. 'Millie trundles through the trees,Wildflowers bending in the breeze. If there's just a chance of ants,Millie's nose will do its dance.' But just why does Millie...

  • The Lily in the Snow

    Miss Lily - 3

    The world is at war, and women are working, often behind the scenes, in areas from nursing to espionage. And despite their many successes, these are the women the men don't see.Unimaginable danger creeps ever closer to Miss Lily and her loved ones . ...

  • Pirate Boy of Sydney Town

    A SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE FROM AUSTRALIA'S CHILDREN'S LAUREATECAN YOU STILL LOVE YOUR FATHER, NO MATTER WHAT HIS CRIMES ARE?Twelve-year-old Ben Huntsmore is the son of a shipowner, an only child who loves the farming life on his mother's family estat...

  • Clancy of the Overflow

    Waltz for Matilda - 9

    From Australia's best-loved storyteller comes the final book in the bestselling Matilda SagaThis is a love song to our nation, told in a single sweeping storyJed Kelly has finally persuaded her great aunt Nancy to tell the story of her grandparents. ...

  • Christmas in Paris

    Miss Lily - 3.5

    Paris, Christmas Eve, 1933For once it was an accident. Violette did not mean to kill St Nicholas. But there he was, with blood on the cobblestones, and a family waiting for the Christmas Eve miracle that would never come. And her own family expecting...

  • The Ghost of Howlers Beach

    Butter O'Bryan - 1

    Butter O'Bryan has been told there are ghosts on Howlers Beach, but are there?Howlers Beach, 1932Butter O'Bryan lives in a Very Small Castle with his father and three aunts - Aunt Elephant, Aunt Cake and Aunt Peculiar. These aren't their real names, ...

  • Lilies, Lies and Love

    Miss Lily - 4

    As the King of England wavers between duty and love, Sophie knows that she must choose duty.The year is 1936 and the new King Edward VIII wishes to marry American divorcee, and suspected German agent, Wallis Simpson. Top-secret documents that the kin...

  • The Schoolmaster's Daughter

    Drawing on her own family history, this is a story from Jackie French about education in Colonial Australia - and how women once had to fight for their right to it.January 1901Sharks circle a stranded ship as a young girl and her family stagger from ...

  • Wombat Goes to School

    She eats. She sleeps. She scratches. She goes to school... She sleeps. She eats. She scratches - and finds a hole. When Mothball discovers a new hole, it unexpectedly leads her to the local school. the children learn that wombats love carrots and gra...

  • The Fire Wombat

  • The Angel of Waterloo

    A powerful novel from master storyteller Jackie FrenchThe soldiers she saved called her the Angel of Waterloo.The husband she loved and lost called her Hen.The patients she treated in secret called her Auntie Love.She was Henrietta Bartlett, a surgeo...

  • Wombat Wins

    The school sports day is on and Mothball wombat is competing! She eats. She sleeps. She scratches. But can this wombat win? From the award-winning, bestselling creators of Diary of a Wombat. This is a book about a wombat ... winning. Yes, Mothball...

  • Legends of the Lost Lilies

    Miss Lily - 5

    The final and thrilling conclusion to the popular and bestselling Miss Lily seriesA mysterious telegram that says, 'Lily needs you' arrives just before a plane from war-ravaged England lands in one of Sophie Greenman's paddocks.Sophie, Countess of Sh...

  • The Vanishing at the Very Small Castle

    Butter O'Bryan - 2

    It's 1932, the height of the Depression, and Butter O'Bryan and his friends have another mystery to solve.The Very Small Castle is home to Butter O'Bryan, his father, three aunts, friends Gil, Olive and Tish, and their dog, Woofer.But now there's als...

  • Night Ride into Danger

    Six mysterious passengers and seven dark secrets. Who can be trusted?It's a dark and dangerous journey for the Cobb and Co night mail coach, but when his coach-driver father is injured, young Jem Donovan must take the reins.Surely a boy like Jem can'...

  • Happy Birthday Wombat

    Bestselling Mothball is back - with birthday cake! (Carrot, of course.)She eats, she sleeps, she scratches. But today it's Mothball's birthday and it's time to celebrate!Created by author Jackie French and illustrator Bruce Whatley, Happy Birthday Wo...

  • Refuge

  • Hearts of Gold

    Three women from very different backgrounds, bound by friendship, separated by destinyIt was impossible, but in full view of the church, the Governor and wedding guests ...The bride had vanished.Some girls are born to be loved, some are born to be us...

  • The City in the Sand

    Children of the Valley - 2

  • The House of a Hundred Animals

  • The Metal Men

    Children of the Valley - 3

  • The Music from the Sea

    Children of the Valley - 1

  • The Tribe Who Sang to Trees

  • Ming and Flo Fight for the Future

    The Girls Who Changed the World - 1

    An empowering and exhilarating look at the girls who went before us, and the way they shaped the world.Twelve-year-old Ming Qong is convinced that girls must have changed the world, even if they are rarely mentioned in history books. So when Ming get...

  • Ming and Marie Spy for Freedom

    The Girls Who Changed the World - 2

    An empowering and exhilarating look at the girls who went before us, and the way they shaped the world.Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed the world throughout history. So when Ming is thrust back in time to Belgium during WWI, only to be ...

  • Becoming Mrs Mulberry

    From bestselling author Jackie French comes a book about the secrets we carry, those that we unearth - and those that are too dangerous to tell.The once impoverished medical student Agnes Glock is now the fabulously wealthy Mrs Mulberry. Her estate i...

  • The Great Gallipoli Escape

    Renowned for her historical fiction titles, Jackie French now tells the story of the brilliant and famous evacuation of Gallipoli.Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipp...

  • Ming and Hilde Lead a Revolution

    The Girls Who Changed the World - 3

    The third book in the best-selling Jackie French historical series that places girls centre stage.Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed the world throughout history.She's faced danger and adventure when Herstory sent her to the past to witne...

  • Secret Sparrow, the Battlefield Morse Coder

    This is the story of women who fought during WWI, but not as nurses or ambulance drivers.In 1917 sixteen-year-old Jean McLain is working as a post-office assistant in England. But when she wins a national Morse code competition, the British army make...

  • The Sea Captain's Wife

    From bestselling author Jackie French comes a compelling story of murder, mystery, and mutiny on the high seas - and a love so intense it can overcome two different cultures.You never know what the sea will give you ... or what it will take back.When...

  • Ming and Ada Spark the Digital Age

    The fourth book in the best-selling Jackie French historical series that places girls centre stage.Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed the world throughout history.History's sister, the mysterious Herstory, believes that the more you know ...

  • Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger

    The year is 1859 and the goldfields are filled with diggers -- and danger!Orphaned twelve-year-old Tigg is the Bandicoot Bushranger, the youngest bushranger on the Ballarat goldfields in 1859.When a robbery goes wrong, Tigg must flee in disguise as o...

  • The Whisperer's War

    Why does humanity cling to warfare when it destroys the land and people the armies try to claim?Claverton Castle, 1940. Eagles and Spitfires fly in the skies of England as Lady Deanna, the aristocratic granddaughter of the Duke of Claverton, spends h...

  • Ming and Maria Explore the Universe

    In this fifth and final book in The Girls Who Changed the World series, Ming Qong discovers who she is, and that she, too, will change the world.Herstory, History's sister, has sent Ming all through history to meet girls who have changed the world. B...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jackie French has published 145 books.

The next book by Jackie French, Ming and Maria Explore the Universe, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Jackie French, Summerland, was published in June 1900.

Yes. Jackie French has 14 series.
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