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Jane Smith
Author and librarian Jane Smith has a passion for Australian history and bushrangers in particular. With thirteen books on the subject published since 2014, and with titles receiving award nominations in the ABIA and CBCA awards and glowing reviews nationally it appears that Jane’s fascination with Australian history is shared by children, parents and teachers alike!
In 2015 Captain Thunderbolt from her much loved Australian Bushranger series was shortlisted in the 2015 ABIA Awards. Shoot-out from the Rock the first in her new series, Tommy Bell Bushranger Boy, followed suit as a 2017 CBCA Book of the Year notable. The books teach younger readers about the colourful lives of our bushranging legends and the times they lived in. Her meticulous research offers an insight that goes beyond the surface into the personalities of her ‘characters’ and debunks a few well-known myths and ‘facts’ along the way.
Jane’s clever and entertaining series has been written with not only a flare for fun and reader engagement but also with the Australian National Curriculum in mind. The seventh book in the Tommy Bell series will be released in February 2019.
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Books by Jane Smith
This does more than acknowledge our female trailblazers. It teaches our daughters about them in…
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This does more than acknowledge our female trailblazers. It teaches our daughters about them in…
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Shortlisted for the 2019 Australian Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards [embed]https://youtu.be/_Wi-uxDQaEw[/embed] 'A terrific…
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Shortlisted for the 2019 Australian Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards https://youtu.be/_Wi-uxDQaEw When Tommy…
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https://youtu.be/_Wi-uxDQaEw Tommy Bell, Bushranger Boy is a series featuring Tommy’s time travelling escapades that take…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=_Wi-uxDQaEw Tommy Bell, Bushranger Boy is a series featuring Tommy’s time travelling escapades that take…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wi-uxDQaEw Tommy Bell’s safe outback holiday on a farm with Martin and Combo is turned…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wi-uxDQaEw When Tommy Bell finds himself caught in a struggle between two friends, he decides…
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Included on the South Australian Premier’s Reading Challenge list. An exciting new Australian adventure series…
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"CBCA Children's Book of the Year - Notable 2017" Included on the South Australian Premier’s…
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Perth, 1899: a respected public servant mistakes a bottle of cyanide for his heart medicine,…
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Shortlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) in the Small Publisher's Children's Book of…
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Ben Hall, sometimes referred to as the “gentleman bushranger”, was the son of poor ex-convicts.…
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There were few bushrangers whose influence extended as far as that of Frank Gardiner. Handsome,…
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Included on the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge list. The Australian Bushrangers series by librarian and…
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