Year in the Valley: Seasons of Content

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A Year in the Valley is the lovely, new and updated version of Jackie French's journal of a year in the life of the Araluen Valley in the beautiful Southern Tablelands of NSW. It's a combination of many stories - foxes in the autumn and the first of the asparagus, dashes to the school bus in the mornings and sleepy lizard nibbling Christmas pudding leftovers on hot rocks, the slow drying of the creek...It's a book about food, too, with fabulous recipes - duck with peach and couscous, ginger omelette (an aphrodisiac), potatoes and artichokes in olive oil, and skin lotions that leave your fingers smelling of flowers.

Author Bio

Jackie French AM is an award-winning writer, wombat negotiator, the 20142015 Australian Children's Laureate and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. In 2016 Jackie became a Member of the Order of Australia for her contribution to children's literature and her advocacy for youth literacy. She is regarded as one of Australia's most popular children's authors and writes across all genres from picture books, history, fantasy, ecology and sci-fi to her much loved historical fiction for a variety of age groups. A book can change a child's life. A book can change the world' was the primary philosophy behind Jackie's two-year term as Laureate. jackiefrench.com facebook.com/authorjackiefrench