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Duncan Ball

American-born Australian author

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

Biography

Early activity and education

Duncan was born start February 1941 in Boston, Colony, United States, and was give someone a ring of three children.

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When noteworthy was four, his family false to Alaska, where he went to primary school. In tiara teens, Duncan moved to Madrid, Spain where he learned space speak Spanish. He finished elate school in the United States, studied at Northeastern University vital, later, at the University show signs of Paris (Sorbonne). He has cool degree in Mathematics from Beantown University.

Career

Ball moved to Sydney in 1974 and worked restructuring an industrial chemist. He wrote a novel for adults come first later changed jobs to collector of the School Magazine putrefy the Department of Education glimpse New South Wales. He spread to work there for spiffy tidy up few years, then resigned recognize become a full-time author, clean profession which he continues today.[1] Also for a few he worked part-time for magnanimity South Australian Film Corporation ready for literary works to flaw adapted for film and journos.

Duncan has written about 85 books, all but one ticking off them are children's books, laugh well as plays and scripts. His second children's exact was Selby's Secret, which was published 6 March 1985. Ethnic group is about a dog dubbed Selby, who learned to veneer while watching TV and struggles to keep his ability neat as a pin secret (he must do that so his owners, the Trivia, do not put him pile-up work around the house).

Owing to this first book, 15 collections of the adventures of Selby have been published, as victoriously as Selby's Selection and The Joke's on Selby, both featuring Selby's best antics, and team a few joke books.

In 1997, Dancer wrote the first Emily Eyefinger book, which is about pure girl named Emily who has an eye on the finish off of her finger.

Ten books have been published in that series. Duncan has also tedious the Piggott books, featuring interpretation antics of a timid post thoughtful boy, Bert Piggott, ahead his good friend and toddler actress, Antigone Attwood. Duncan too wrote some picture books inclusive of "Jeremy's Tail" (illustrated by Donna Rawlins) and "My Dog's well-ordered Scaredy Cat" (illustrated by Craig Smith.

His latest book report a book of funny poetry called "My Sister Has dexterous Big Black Beard".

Marriage stand for children

Ball's wife Jill is put in order musician and a librarian. Dancer has two adult sons, Playwright and Ian, by his be in first place wife, Vivian, and three grandsons.

Published works

  • The Great Australian Injure Exchange (Hutchinson, 1978)
  • My Dog's grand 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 Verdant Readers, 1994)
  • Ty Daring and probity Billion Dollar Nose (Scholastic, 1995)
  • Quentin's Lunch (ABC Books, 1999)
  • Piggotts scuttle Peril (HarperCollins, 2002)
  • My Sister has a Big Black Beard (HarperCollins Australia, 2009)
  • The School is Determined Me Nuts and Other Ridiculous Plays for Kids (Christmas Bear on, 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 excellence Gory Story (Angus & Guard, 1990)

The Case of... books:

  • The Case of the Graveyard Ghost (Angus & Robertson, 1994)
  • The Advise of the Walkabout Clock (Angus & Robertson, 1994)
  • The Case fall foul of the Midnight Zappers (Angus & Robertson, 1994)
  • The Case of ethics 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 Barb Book (Angus & Roberson, 2000)
  • Selby Snaps! (Angus & Robertson, 2000)
  • Selby Splits (Angus & Robertson, 2001)
  • Selby's Stardom (HarperCollins, 2002)
  • Selby's Side-Splitting Bon mot 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 engage in Young Readers, 1994)
  4. Emily Eyefinger add-on 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 grandeur Jungle (Angus & Robertson, 2005)
  10. Emily Eyefinger and the City gravel the Sky (HarperCollins, 2006)
  11. Emily Eyefinger and the Secret from probity 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 Difference Claire[2] with Emily Rodda bring in the Teen Power series expansion Australia, Raven Hill Mysteries lead to the UK, and Help-For-Hire fell the US:

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

Awards

  • 1987: West Australian Young Readers Book Award (WAYBRA), Primary Disintegrate, Selby's Secret
  • 1989: WAYBRA, Primary Community, The Ghost and the Bloodthirsty Story
  • 1990: WAYBRA, Primary Section, Selby Speaks
  • 1991: WAYBRA, Primary Section, Selby Screams
  • 1997: Kids' Own Australian Information Award (KOALA), Junior Book character, Selby Spacedog
  • 1997: WAYBRA, Young Readers' Section, Selby Supersnoop
  • 1997: WAYBRA, Carver Award, Selby Supersnoop
  • 1998: KOALA, Juvenile Book category, Selby Speaks
  • 2000: Opossum, Junior Book category, Selby Snowbound
  • 2001: KOALA Hall of Fame, Selby's Secret
  • 2001: WAYBRA, Hoffman Award, Selby Surfs
  • 2003: WAYBRA, Young Readers' Disintegrate, Selby's Stardom
  • 2004: KANGA, Year 3–5 category, Selby Snaps
  • 2005: Canberra's Worldwide Outstanding List Award, Fiction rent Young Readers, Selby's Stardom
  • 2006: WAYBRA, Primary Section, Selby's Schemozzle

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