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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
Australian Bushranger Series - Books 1 - 5 “Captain Thunderbolt - Shortlisted for an Australian Book…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wi-uxDQaEw 'A terrific series for reluctant readers.' View sample pages HERE TEACHING NOTES AVAILABLE HERE…
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Shortlisted for the 2019 Australian Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards https://youtu.be/_Wi-uxDQaEw TEACHERS NOTES…
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https://youtu.be/_Wi-uxDQaEw View sample pages HERE TEACHERS NOTES AVAILABLE HERE Tommy Bell, Bushranger Boy is a…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=_Wi-uxDQaEw View sample pages HERE TEACHERS NOTES AVAILABLE HERE Tommy Bell, Bushranger Boy is a…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wi-uxDQaEw View sample pages HERE TEACHER'S NOTES AVAILABLE HERE Tommy Bell’s safe outback holiday on…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wi-uxDQaEw TEACHER'S NOTES AVAILABLE HERE When Tommy Bell finds himself caught in a struggle between…
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An exciting new Australian adventure series full of danger, daring and wild colonial boys! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wi-uxDQaEw…
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"CBCA Book of the Year Awards - 2017 Notables" An exciting new Australian adventure series…
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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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Teachers Resources Available Here In 1869 Mt Egerton was outraged by the armed hold-up of…
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Teachers Resources Available Here Ben Hall, sometimes referred to as the “gentleman bushranger”, was the…
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Teachers Resources Available Here There were few bushrangers whose influence extended as far as that…
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Teachers Resources Available Here The Australian Bushrangers series by librarian and historical researcher, Jane Smith,…
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