There is a dispensation for dark chocolate. She coined the term ‘moral ominvore’ to describe her diet. Instead of hobbies she has: written over 200 books built a house and power system planted thousands of trees eaten lunches with friends read to her grandkids tried to find her glasses eaten dark chocolates, whatever fruit is in season and the odd feral species (some are very odd). Some of Jackie’s books have sold millions of copies and won over 60 awards in Australia and internationally. Only one school she attended burned down. She has lived for more than 40 years at the top of the gorge in the Araluen Valley, where her ancestors lived too. Jackie was born in Sydney grew up on the outskirts of Brisbane, and is still not dead. It's absolutely engrossing.Jackie French AM is an Australian author, historian, ecologist and honourary wombat (part time) 2014–15 Australian Children' Laureate and 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. 'I've been telling all my friends to read this book, and to give it to their kids to read. 'If every Australian history class in the country could be taught by Jackie French, we'd have an entire generation of kids with an enormous thirst for knowledge about our early European settlement and a whole lot more compassion for those who already called this country home.' - Sunday Tasmanian Irresistible for history buffs of any age.' - Good Reading Magazine, five stars ' is one of few masters who can embed historic characters in rattling good tales, and her meticulous research is seamlessly inserted so that you live the detail rather than learn it. Honour Book - CBCA 2012 (Younger Reader's Book of the Year) No less incredible is the enduring love between the gentleman surgeon and the convict girl who was saved from the death penalty and became a great lady in her own right.

This true story follows the brothers as they make their way in the world - one as a sailor, serving in the Royal Navy, the other a hero of the Battle of Waterloo. And yet he is haunted by the memories of the Cadigal warriors who will one day come to claim him as one of their own. Nanberry is clever and uses his unique gifts as an interpreter to bridge the two worlds he lives in.With his white brother, Andrew, he witnesses the struggles of the colonists to keep their precarious grip on a hostile wilderness. It's 1789, and as the new colony in Sydney Cove is established, Surgeon John White defies convention and adopts Nanberry, an Aboriginal boy, to raise as his son. The amazing story of Australia's first surgeon and the boy he adopted.

Nanberry by Jackie French