Jackie French - Information

Jackie French - Information

Name of Book	Type of Book	Type of Story	Characters	Incidents	Setting
Baby Wombats Week	Picture Book	Fiction	Baby Wombat, Mummy Wombat, Human Baby	Cant find a hole big enough	Outside a humans house.

Wombat goes to school

Picture Book

Fiction

Class Mates, Wombat.

Thinking that everything is either a carrot or grass because he needs to eat

At a school with lots of school friends

List 7-10 Books That You Think Jackie French Would Like And Why???

•  Enora And The Black Crane------ I know that Jackie French likes books about early Australia, and this book is about dream time stories and that was what Aboriginal people told to keep themselves entertained and pass down through the generations.
•  I See A Kookaburra------ A kookaburra is an Australian animal and Jackie French likes animals.
•  Edwina The Emu------ Another Australian animal the 'emu' which Jackie loves
•  Kangaroo And The Crocodile, My Big Book Of Australian Animals------ As I said before, Jackie French likes Australian animals.
•  The Australian Twelve Days Of Christmas------ Wonderful Australian christmas bush theme.
•  Puggles Problem------ A beautiful story about an echidna who has no spines but all his australian bush friends try and help solve his problem.
•  Why I love Australia------ Jackie Loves everything about Australia.
•  The Trenches------ Jackie French writes about our ANZAC heroes and would love this book.
•  Anzac Biscuits------ Another sad but interesting story about an Australian soldier who goes off to war. I bet Jackie has read it.
•  Bindi Wildlife Adventures------ True life adventures written by a young Australian girl who finds adventure in all kinds of Australian animals.

Jackie French - Book Review

One of my favourite Jackie French books is called ‘Flood’.

Flood may look like a little children’s picture book from the cover, but when you start reading this fantastic book you start to realise how devastating the rain can be, how sad that so many families lost their homes, businesses and family members and how hard the people of Queensland worked to save their community.

‘Flood’ is about one of many devastating floods that Queensland endured and how the strength of humankind and the community pulled together to help one another even if they had lost everything.

The story begins with the much needed ‘gentle rain’ falling onto the dry land. The rain suddenly turns savage and is so heavy for such a long period of time that the ground and the rivers can’t hold it all.

Finally the rivers break their banks and the town is flooded with torrents of water. Trees are sucked into the torrents and boats are torn from their jetties. Cables of a boardwalk snapped and a kilometre of wood and metal became a weapon of the flood but a little tugboat saved it from harming the town.

The book explains how the human spirit of the community help each other risking their own lives to save other people and homes.

A wonderful story from devastation to greatness and lots of sadness in between.

What makes this book even more special is that 'all profits raised from the sale of each book went to the Flood Disaster Relief Appeal.