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Jackie French Biography

Jacqueline "Jackie" French AM (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. 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.

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Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

Bad, Dancing, Darling, Death, Ifs, Touch

I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don't feel it's my duty to finish them. I read the last few pages and find out what happens at the end.

Book, Enormous, Half, Reading, Two

I'm very close to my parents. I admire them and respect them enormously. But my childhood unfortunately coincided with the end of their marriage. They are two people who should never, ever have got married.

Childhood, Enormously, Married, Parents, People, Two

One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what happens next.

Extraordinary, Happen, Happens, Know, Next, Regret

If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

Boot, Heart, Life, Soul

Very much in my books people find not surrogate families because they are real families. We've got families that we're related to by blood but we've also got families that we acquire. And those too I think are pretty much part of my books.

Acquire, Blood, Book, Pretty, Real, Thinking

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

Book, Books, Broccoli, Drag, Eat, Fascinating

I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format simply because of this familiarity. Possibly in another society and another context I might have been a storyteller or who knows what.

Book, Communicate, See, Thinking, Way, World

I've always found the world is the most extraordinarily fascinating place and the more data you get, the more you can actually put pieces into this jigsaw.

Actually, Data, Fascinating, Pieces, World

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

Book, Books, Escapism, Life, Resources

I'd love to see a new form of social security. . . everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

Everyone, Garden, Kids, School, Tree

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

Alive, Dancing, Dying, Fear, Song

I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.

Able, Future, Happened, Know, Might, Years

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

Book, Books, Children, Intelligent

Lady Dance's music wasn't a magic charm. I'd misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. 'Rejoice,' came the soft voice of Lady Dance in my mind. 'Watch the moon and stars. . . ' Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.

Came, Dance, Moon, Song, Stars, Understand

Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.

Dance, Dancing, Met, Mets, Ruled, Song And Dance

A lot of dyslexic kids are actually more intelligent than average and are very good, because they've got very good memories, at disguising the fact that they can't read or have got problems in reading and literacy.

Dyslexic, Kids, Literacy, Memories, Problems, Reading