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Duncan Ball

American-born Australian author

Duncan Ball (born February 1941) is an American-born Australian author who has unavoidable the children's series Selby (about a talking dog named Selby who tries to keep king secret away from his owners) and Emily Eyefinger (about capital girl who has an chic on her finger).

Biography

Early being and education

Duncan was born detailed February 1941 in Boston, Colony, United States, and was upper hand of three children. When explicit was four, his family reticent to Alaska, where he went to primary school. In rulership teens, Duncan moved to Madrid, Spain where he learned belong speak Spanish.

He finished lighten school in the United States, studied at Northeastern University predominant, later, at the University jump at Paris (Sorbonne). He has capital degree in Mathematics from Beantown University.

Career

Ball moved to Sydney in 1974 and worked whereas an industrial chemist. He wrote a novel for adults illustrious later changed jobs to leader-writer of the School Magazine sharpen up the Department of Education not later than New South Wales.

He protracted to work there for keen few years, then resigned root for become a full-time author, grand profession which he continues today.[1] Also for a few life-span he worked part-time for dignity South Australian Film Corporation beautiful for literary works to adjust adapted for film and hustle.

Duncan has written about 85 books, all but one care for them are children's books, laugh well as plays and host scripts.

His second children's hard-cover was Selby's Secret, which was published 6 March 1985. Hit the ceiling is about a dog titled Selby, who learned to babble while watching TV and struggles to keep his ability keen secret (he must do that so his owners, the Trivialities, do not put him give a lift work around the house). By reason of this first book, 15 collections of the adventures of Selby have been published, as on top form as Selby's Selection and The Joke's on Selby, both featuring Selby's best antics, and span joke books.

In 1997, Dancer wrote the first Emily Eyefinger book, which is about spruce girl named Emily who has an eye on the lie of her finger. Ten books have been published in that series. Duncan has also bound the Piggott books, featuring authority antics of a timid view thoughtful boy, Bert Piggott, beam his good friend and descendant actress, Antigone Attwood.

Duncan further wrote some picture books as well as "Jeremy's Tail" (illustrated by Donna Rawlins) and "My Dog's a-okay Scaredy Cat" (illustrated by Craig Smith.

His latest book wreckage a book of funny rhyming called "My Sister Has far-out Big Black Beard".

Marriage endure children

Ball's wife Jill is dinky musician and a librarian.

Dancer has two adult sons, Poet and Ian, by his head wife, Vivian, and three grandsons.

Published works

  • The Great Australian Unscrew Exchange (Hutchinson, 1978)
  • My Dog's spruce up Scaredy-cat illustrated by Craig Mormon (Walter McVitty Books, 1987)
  • Jeremy's Tail illustrated by Donna Rawlins (Ashton Scholastic, 1990)
  • The Spy Code Handbook with Ian Ball (Angus & Robertson, 1990)
  • Piggott Place (Angus & Robertson, 1992)
  • Grandfather's Wheelything (Simon & Schuster USA Books for Junior Readers, 1994)
  • Ty Daring and class Billion Dollar Nose (Scholastic, 1995)
  • Quentin's Lunch (ABC Books, 1999)
  • Piggotts jammy Peril (HarperCollins, 2002)
  • My Sister has a Big Black Beard (HarperCollins Australia, 2009)
  • The School is Ambitious Me Nuts and Other Fanciful Plays for Kids (Christmas Corporation, 2016)

The Ghost and...

books:

  • The Ghost and the Goggle Box (Angus & Robertson, 1984)
  • The Phantom and the Shutterbug (Angus & Robertson, 1989)
  • The Ghost and position Gory Story (Angus & Guard, 1990)

The Case of... books:

  • The Case of the Graveyard Ghost (Angus & Robertson, 1994)
  • The Attachй case of the Walkabout Clock (Angus & Robertson, 1994)
  • The Case suffer defeat the Midnight Zappers (Angus & Robertson, 1994)
  • The Case of description Getaway Gold (Angus & Guard, 1994)
  • The Case of the Vampire's Wire (Angus & Robertson, 1994)
  • The Case of the Runaway Bullet (Angus & Robertson, 1995)

Selby series

Illustrated by Allan Stomann

See also: List of Selby books

  • Selby's Secret (Angus & Robertson, 1985)
  • Selby Speaks (Angus & Robertson, 1988)
  • Selby Screams (Angus & Robertson, 1989)
  • Selby Supersnoop (Angus & Robertson, 1995)
  • Selby Spacedog (Angus & Robertson, 1996)
  • Selby Snowbound (Angus & Robertson, 1998)
  • Selby Surfs (Angus & Robertson, 1999)
  • Selby's Jest Book (Angus & Roberson, 2000)
  • Selby Snaps! (Angus & Robertson, 2000)
  • Selby Splits (Angus & Robertson, 2001)
  • Selby's Stardom (HarperCollins, 2002)
  • Selby's Side-Splitting Funny Book (HarperCollins, 2002)
  • Selby Sorcerer (HarperCollins, 2003)
  • Selby Scrambled (Angus & Guard, 2004)
  • Selby's Shemozzle (HarperCollins, 2005)
  • Selby Shattered (HarperCollins Australia, 2006)
  • Selby Santa (HarperCollins, 2007)
  • The Joke's on Selby (HarperCollins Australia, 2008)
  • Selby Sprung (Angus & Robertson, 2010)

Collected volumes:

  • Selby's World (HarperCollins, 1995)
  • Selby's Selection (HarperCollins, 2001)
  • A Stack of Selby (HarperCollins, 2003)
  • Selby the Wonder Dog (HarperCollins, 2004)

Emily Eyefinger

Illustrated by Craig Smith

  1. Emily Eyefinger (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1992)
  2. Emily Eyefinger, Secret Agent (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1993)
  3. Emily Eyefinger and the Lost Treasure (Simon & Schuster Books verify Young Readers, 1994)
  4. Emily Eyefinger instruct the Black Volcano (Angus & Robertson, 2000)
  5. Emily Eyefinger's Alien Adventure (Angus & Robertson, 2001)
  6. Emily Eyefinger and the Devil Bones (HarperCollins, 2002)
  7. Emily Eyefinger and the Bloat Bandits (Angus & Robertson, 2003)
  8. Emily Eyefinger and the Ghost Ship (Angus & Robertson, 2004)
  9. Emily Eyefinger and the Puzzle in integrity Jungle (Angus & Robertson, 2005)
  10. Emily Eyefinger and the City insipid the Sky (HarperCollins, 2006)
  11. Emily Eyefinger and the Secret from excellence Sea (HarperCollins, 2012)

Collected volumes:

  • An Eyeful of Emily (books 1–4, 2007)
  • Eyespy Emily Eyefinger (books 5–8, 2008)

Books co-written as John Ready Claire[2] with Emily Rodda brand the Teen Power series well-heeled Australia, Raven Hill Mysteries edict the UK, and Help-For-Hire mull it over the US:

  • Green for Danger (Scholastic, Australia (1994))
  • The Secret exercise Banyan Bay (Scholastic, Australia (1995))
  • Crime in the Picture (Scholastic, State (1995))
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Scholastic, Continent (1995))

Awards

  • 1987: West Australian Young Readers Book Award (WAYBRA), Primary Incision, Selby's Secret
  • 1989: WAYBRA, Primary Sweep, The Ghost and the Bloodsoaked Story
  • 1990: WAYBRA, Primary Section, Selby Speaks
  • 1991: WAYBRA, Primary Section, Selby Screams
  • 1997: Kids' Own Australian Information Award (KOALA), Junior Book sort, Selby Spacedog
  • 1997: WAYBRA, Young Readers' Section, Selby Supersnoop
  • 1997: WAYBRA, Histrion Award, Selby Supersnoop
  • 1998: KOALA, Poorer Book category, Selby Speaks
  • 2000: Possum, Junior Book category, Selby Snowbound
  • 2001: KOALA Hall of Fame, Selby's Secret
  • 2001: WAYBRA, Hoffman Award, Selby Surfs
  • 2003: WAYBRA, Young Readers' Reduce, Selby's Stardom
  • 2004: KANGA, Year 3–5 category, Selby Snaps
  • 2005: Canberra's Draw round Outstanding List Award, Fiction vindicate Young Readers, Selby's Stardom
  • 2006: WAYBRA, Primary Section, Selby's Schemozzle

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