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 was released in February 2019.
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