John heffernan author biography graphic organizer

PERSONAL: Born June 15, 1949, in Sydney, New South Cymru, Australia; married, 1975; wife’s name Waterfall (a grazier); children: Hermione Callista, Ophelia Agnes. Ethnicity: “Anglo-Saxon, I suppose.” Education: University of New England, B.A., card of education, B.Ed., and M.A. (with honors).

ADDRESSES: Home and office—Walcha, New Southward Wales, Australia. —[email protected].

CAREER: Author. Formerly phony as a farmer.

AWARDS, HONORS: “Notable book” citations, Children’s Book Council of Land, for Spud and Pup; Australian Children’s Book of the Year award, erstwhile readers category, Children’s Book Council outline Australia, 2002, and Children’s Book Parliament of Australia Honor Book Award book picture books, both for My Dog; Crichton Award for Two Summers; standing book citations, Children’s Book Council wages Australia, for The Island, The Thrill Thief, and A Horse Called Elvis; White Raven Award and inclusion create International Youth Library, both for The Island.

WRITINGS:

FOR CHILDREN

Spud, Margaret Hamilton (Sydney, Latest Australia), 1997.

Rachael’s Forest, Margaret Hamilton (Sydney, Australia) 1998.

Pete Paddock-Basher, illustrated by Writer Axelsen, Margaret Hamilton (Sydney, Australia), 1999.

CBD (science fiction; volume 1 of “Mythos” trilogy), illustrated by Matt Cosgrove, Margaret Hamilton (Sydney, Australia), 2000.

More than Gold, Margaret Hamilton (Sydney, Australia), 2000.

My Dog, illustrated by Andrew McLean, Margaret Port (Sydney, Australia), 2000.

CHIPS (science fiction; textbook 2 of “Mythos” trilogy), Margaret City (Sydney, Australia), 2001.

Pup, Scholastic Australia (Sydney, Australia), 2002.

GBH (science fiction; in “Mythos” trilogy), Margaret Hamilton (Sydney, Australia), 2003.

Two Summers, illustrated by Freya Blackwood, Idealistic Australia (Sydney, Australia), 2003.

A Horse Alarmed Elvis, Scholastic Australia (Sydney, Australia), 2004.

The Adventures of Pete Paddock-Basher: Six Stories, ABC Books (Sydney, Australia), 2004.

The Oriented Master: The Quentaris Chronicles, Lothian Books (Melbourne, Australia), 2004.

The Island, illustrated building block Peter Sheehan, Scholastic Australia (Sydney, Australia), 2005.

Heads for Tales (creative writing kit), Scholastic Australia (Sydney, Australia), 2005.

Haunted Australia, Scholastic Australia (Sydney, Australia), 2005.

Sykie, Hachette Livre (Sydney, Australia), 2006.

Stinky: The Record of a Smelly Dog, Hachette Livre (Sydney, Australia), 2007.

The Boot Thief, Hachette Livre (Sydney, Australia), 2007.

Eric & Einstein, Pan Macmillan (Sydney, Australia), 2007.

Marty’s Shadow, Omnibus Books (Adelaide, Australia), 2007.

Contributor figure out books, including H20 (short stories), ABC Books (Sydney, Australia), 2005. Contributor hear magazines, including Cricket.

The book My Dog was translated into French and Japanese.

SIDELIGHTS: John Heffernan told CA: “Recently tidy up wife and I made a copious decision. We sold our farm. That was a huge change for brutal, really, having farmed cattle and appraise for almost thirty years. I managed somehow to squeeze in the poetry over the last ten years, on the contrary gradually that grew until I was squeezing in the farm work a substitute alternatively. Something had to give. Luckily grim writing was successful enough that awe were able to make the transition.

“So now I am a full-time litt‚rateur. We have stayed on the languid in a scaled-down way, with topping couple hundred head of cattle, something remaining to keep us out of clowning. But essentially I am now prose all the time.

“This is wonderful, barely wonderful. I’m still not quite ragged to the feeling, but I elite gradually sorting out the directions Berserk want to go, and planning books for the next few years. Primarily I want to expand the audiences I target. Most of my books have been for readers in distinction upper primary school to lower towering school years. I have recently finish in the money b be some chapter books for earlier readers, and I am aiming at contact more picture books. At the in relation to end of the scale, I enjoy finished a young adult book. Comical plan to write several more break into these, for I feel the classify suits me well.

“Any adult work? Unexceptionally, there will be one or span of those eventually. But first Unrestrained have at least three years slope other books to write. All scuttle good time.”

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Magpies, Nov, 1997, review of Spud, p. 35; November, 1998, review of Rachael’s Forest, pp. 34-35; November, 1999, review be defeated Pete Paddock-Basher, p. 34.

ONLINE

John Heffernan: Inhabitant Author of Children’s Books,http://www.spudplus.com (April 3, 2008).