SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Using animals to make history more digestible to children is one Jackie French's fortes, but telling the horrors of World War One through the eyes of a donkey is a first for ...

Downton Abbey fans will adore this heartbreaking and empowering page-turner. Jackie French has debuted the first novel in an exciting new fiction series—and we’re already hooked. Miss Lily’s Lovely ...

The heartbreaking book we haven’t been able to put down. She’s penned over 170 books and won countless literary awards, but Jackie French isn’t ready to call time on her illustrious 25-year career ...

She is joined by two other Aussie authors, Ursula Dubosarsky and Melina Marchetta, who are among the 207 candidates from 67 countries nominated for the 2013 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, which were ...

Jackie French is an Australian author, historian, ecologist and honourary wombat (part time), 2014-2015 Australian Children' Laureate and 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. She also writes a ...