![]() ![]() Jackie was born Sydney in 1953, grew up in Brisbane, graduated from the University of Queensland and moved to her present home in the NSW bush in her early twenties. But the spelling was due to she fact that she's dyslexic, and can't focus on single words to see if they're spelt properly or not. The messiness was mostly due to Smudge the wombat, who had a particular hatred for Jackie's typewriter (an old one she'd found at the dump) and left his droppings nightly on the keyboard. but has been deeply loved by tens of thousands of readers since.) ![]() ![]() (It was described by the editor at HarperCollins as the messiest, worst spelt manuscript they'd ever received. Jackie French wrote her first children's novel, Rainstones, living in a shed with a wallaby called Fred, a black snake called Gladys and a wombat called Smudge. ![]()
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