The Diary of William Shakespeare, Gentleman (21 page)

JACKIE FRENCH AM
is an award-winning writer, wombat negotiator, the 2014–2015 Australian Children's Laureate and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. 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. ‘Share a Story' was the primary philosophy behind Jackie's two-year term as Laureate.

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Australian Historical

Somewhere Around the Corner • Dancing with Ben Hall

Daughter of the Regiment • Soldier on the Hill • Valley of Gold

Tom Appleby, Convict Boy • A Rose for the Anzac Boys

The Night They Stormed Eureka • Nanberry: Black Brother White Pennies for Hitler

General Historical

Hitler's Daughter • Lady Dance • How the Finnegans Saved the Ship

The White Ship • They Came on Viking Ships

Macbeth and Son • Pharaoh • Oracle

I am Juliet • Ophelia: Queen of Denmark

Fiction

Rain Stones • Walking the Boundaries • The Secret Beach

Summerland • A Wombat Named Bosco • Beyond the Boundaries

The Warrior: The Story of a Wombat • The Book of Unicorns

Tajore Arkle • Missing You, Love Sara • Dark Wind Blowing

Ride the Wild Wind: The Golden Pony and Other Stories

Refuge • The Book of Horses and Unicorns

Non-Fiction

A Year in the Valley • How the Aliens from Alpha Centauri

Invaded My Maths Class and Turned Me into a Writer

How to Guzzle Your Garden • The Book of Challenges

The Fascinating History of Your Lunch

To the Moon and Back • The Secret World of Wombats

How High Can a Kangaroo Hop?

Let the Land Speak: How the Land Created Our Nation

I Spy a Great Reader

The Animal Stars Series

The Goat Who Sailed the World • The Dog Who Loved a Queen

The Camel Who Crossed Australia

The Donkey Who Carried the Wounded

The Horse Who Bit a Bushranger

Dingo: The Dog Who Conquered a Continent

The Matilda Saga

1. A Waltz for Matilda • 2. The Girl from Snowy River

3. The Road to Gundagai • 4. To Love a Sunburnt Country

5. The Ghost by the Billabong

The Secret Histories Series

Birrung the Secret Friend • Barney and the Secret of the Whales

Outlands Trilogy

In the Blood • Blood Moon • Flesh and Blood

School for Heroes Series

Lessons for a Werewolf Warrior • Dance of the Deadly Dinosaurs

Wacky Families Series

1. My Dog the Dinosaur • 2. My Mum the Pirate

3. My Dad the Dragon • 4. My Uncle Gus the Garden Gnome

5. My Uncle Wal the Werewolf • 6. My Gran the Gorilla

7. My Auntie Chook the Vampire Chicken • 8. My Pa the Polar Bear

Phredde Series

1. A Phaery Named Phredde

2. Phredde and a Frog Named Bruce

3. Phredde and the Zombie Librarian

4. Phredde and the Temple of Gloom

5. Phredde and the Leopard-Skin Librarian

6. Phredde and the Purple Pyramid

7. Phredde and the Vampire Footy Team

8. Phredde and the Ghostly Underpants

Picture Books

Diary of a Wombat (with Bruce Whatley)

Pete the Sheep (with Bruce Whatley)

Josephine Wants to Dance (with Bruce Whatley)

The Shaggy Gully Times (with Bruce Whatley)

Emily and the Big Bad Bunyip (with Bruce Whatley)

Baby Wombat's Week (with Bruce Whatley)

The Tomorrow Book (with Sue deGennaro)

Queen Victoria's Underpants (with Bruce Whatley)

Christmas Wombat (with Bruce Whatley)

A Day to Remember (with Mark Wilson)

Queen Victoria's Christmas (with Bruce Whatley)

Dinosaurs Love Cheese (with Nina Rycroft)

Wombat Goes to School (with Bruce Whatley)

The Hairy-Nosed Wombats Find a New Home (with Sue deGennaro)

Good Dog Hank (with Nina Rycroft)

The Beach They Called Gallipoli (with Bruce Whatley)

Wombat Wins (with Bruce Whatley)

Grandma Wombat (with Bruce Whatley)

Angus&Robertson

An imprint of HarperCollins
Publishers
, Australia

First published in Australia in 2016

by HarperCollins
Publishers
Australia Pty Limited

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Copyright © Jackie French and E French 2016

The right of Jackie French to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her under the
Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000.

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1968
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

French, Jackie, author.

    
The diary of William Shakespeare, gentleman / Jackie French.

    
ISBN: 978 1 4607 5057 5 (paperback)

    
ISBN: 978 1 4607 0513 1 (ebook)

    
For secondary school age.

    
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616—Juvenile fiction.

    
Diary fiction.

A823.3

Cover design by Stephanie Spartels, Studio Spartels

Cover images: William Shakespeare by Grafissimo / Getty Images;

background texture by Rouzes / Getty Images