Paul Jennings (1) (1943–)
Autor(a) de Unreal!
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About the Author
Australian writer, Paul Jennings was born in England on April 30, 1943. He moved to Australia when he was six years old. He attended Frankston Teachers College and became a teacher. He then attended Lincoln Institute and became a speech pathologist. In 1989, he decided to become a full-time writer. mostrar mais His first title Unreal!, winner of a Young Australians' Best Book Award (YABBA), was published in 1985. His other works include the Singenpoo series, the Wicked! series, the Deadly! series, and The Nest. He has won numerous awards including the Kids Reading Oz Choice Award, the Books I Like Best Yearly Award, the Angus and Robertson Bookworld Award and a COOL Award for his title The Paw Thing. He also received the Golden Puffin Award in 1992 for selling 1 million books in Australia. In addition to writing, he visits school and lectures at conferences and seminars on encouraging children to read. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Paul Jennings
Listen Ear: and Other Stories to Shock You Silly! (Puffin Short Stories , No 1) (1998) 22 exemplares
Covered with Nails: and Other Stories to Shock Your Shock Off! (Puffin Short Stories, No 2) (1998) 18 exemplares
Contos Coragem 1 exemplar
CORAGEM 1 exemplar
Three Stories 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Jennings, Paul
- Data de nascimento
- 1943-04-30
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
Australia - Local de nascimento
- Heston, Middlesex, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Heston, Middlesex, England, UK
Australia - Educação
- Bentleigh West Primary School
Frankston Teachers' College
Lincoln Institute - Ocupações
- teacher
lecturer
speech therapist
children's book author - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Dromkeen Medal (2000)
Order of Australia
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Prémios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 114
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 4,394
- Popularidade
- #5,709
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 48
- ISBN
- 665
- Línguas
- 10
- Marcado como favorito
- 2
Dawn and Rory hate each other. Unfortunately for them their parents, Jack (Dawn's dad) and Eileen (Rory's mum) are getting married. But they have to work together to save their parents when Rory finds his pets, the slobberers, are killing machines, sucking the life from anything they come into contact with and he put some in their honeymoon stew as a protest against their marriage.
This wasn't well written. All the characters are flat and there's a ton of backstory but all of which is lacking explanation. Dawn's mum apparently killed herself. On a bus. While other people were on it - one of whom was Rory. Rory's dad left his mum and him and never calls or writes or visits. There was no depth to the characters and every fact just brought up more questions.
And frankly I just didn't care. It was creepy and disgusting and I just wanted it to be over. 1 star.… (mais)