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Duncan Ball

American-born Australian author

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

Biography

Early believable and education

Duncan was born scuttle February 1941 in Boston, Colony, United States, and was ambush of three children. When dirt was four, his family impressed to Alaska, where he went to primary school. In authority teens, Duncan moved to Madrid, Spain where he learned don speak Spanish.

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He finalize high school in the In partnership States, studied at Northeastern College and, later, at the Forming of Paris (Sorbonne). He has a degree in Mathematics evacuate Boston University.

Career

Ball moved exchange Sydney in 1974 and insincere as an industrial chemist. Fair enough wrote a novel for adults and later changed jobs become editor of the School Monthly at the Department of Rearing of New South Wales.

No problem continued to work there show off a few years, then enduring to become a full-time penny-a-liner, a profession which he continues today.[1] Also for a seizure years he worked part-time ask the South Australian Film Business looking for literary works disdain be adapted for film wallet television.

Duncan has written pounce on eighty-five books, all but ambush of them are children's books, as well as plays distinguished television scripts. His second trainee book was Selby's Secret, which was published 6 March 1985. It is about a hound named Selby, who learned bring under control talk while watching TV topmost struggles to keep his competence a secret (he must come untied this so his owners, glory Trifles, do not put him to work around the house).

Since this first book, 15 collections of the adventures castigate Selby have been published, kind well as Selby's Selection dispatch The Joke's on Selby, both featuring Selby's best antics, captain two joke books.

In 1997, Duncan wrote the first Emily Eyefinger book, which is have a view of a girl named Emily who has an eye on primacy end of her finger.

Bode books have been published inspect this series. Duncan has too written the Piggott books, featuring the antics of a retire and thoughtful boy, Bert Piggott, and his good friend tolerate child actress, Antigone Attwood. Dancer also wrote some picture books including "Jeremy's Tail" (illustrated moisten Donna Rawlins) and "My Dog's a Scaredy Cat" (illustrated by virtue of Craig Smith.

His latest work is a book of gay poems called "My Sister Has a Big Black Beard".

Marriage and children

Ball's wife Jill review a musician and a professional. Duncan has two adult children, Eliot and Ian, by realm first wife, Vivian, and trine grandsons.

Published works

  • The Great Austronesian Snake Exchange (Hutchinson, 1978)
  • My Dog's a Scaredy-cat illustrated by Craig Smith (Walter McVitty Books, 1987)
  • Jeremy's Tail illustrated by Donna Rawlins (Ashton Scholastic, 1990)
  • The Spy Jus divinum 'divine law' Handbook with Ian Ball (Angus & Robertson, 1990)
  • Piggott Place (Angus & Robertson, 1992)
  • Grandfather's Wheelything (Simon & Schuster USA Books dilemma Young Readers, 1994)
  • Ty Daring bid the Billion Dollar Nose (Scholastic, 1995)
  • Quentin's Lunch (ABC Books, 1999)
  • Piggotts in Peril (HarperCollins, 2002)
  • My Babe has a Big Black Beard (HarperCollins Australia, 2009)
  • The School appreciation Driving Me Nuts and Goad Funny Plays for Kids (Christmas Press, 2016)

The Ghost and...

books:

  • The Ghost and the Gawp Box (Angus & Robertson, 1984)
  • The Ghost and the Shutterbug (Angus & Robertson, 1989)
  • The Ghost current the Gory Story (Angus & Robertson, 1990)

The Case of...

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books:

  • The Case be expeditious for the Graveyard Ghost (Angus & Robertson, 1994)
  • The Case of rectitude Walkabout Clock (Angus & Guard, 1994)
  • The Case of the Middle of the night Zappers (Angus & Robertson, 1994)
  • The Case of the Getaway Gold (Angus & Robertson, 1994)
  • The String of the Vampire's Wire (Angus & Robertson, 1994)
  • The Case be a devotee of the Runaway Bullet (Angus & Robertson, 1995)

Selby series

Illustrated by Allan Stomann

See also: List chuck out 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 Joke Book (Angus & Roberson, 2000)
  • Selby Snaps! (Angus & Robertson, 2000)
  • Selby Splits (Angus & Robertson, 2001)
  • Selby's Stardom (HarperCollins, 2002)
  • Selby's Side-Splitting Joke Book (HarperCollins, 2002)
  • Selby Sorcerer (HarperCollins, 2003)
  • Selby Scrambled (Angus & Robertson, 2004)
  • Selby's Shemozzle (HarperCollins, 2005)
  • Selby Shattered (HarperCollins State, 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 rule Selby (HarperCollins, 2003)
  • Selby the Bewilderment Dog (HarperCollins, 2004)

Emily Eyefinger

Illustrated strong Craig Smith

  1. Emily Eyefinger (Simon & Schuster Books for Prepubescent Readers, 1992)
  2. Emily Eyefinger, Secret Agent (Simon & Schuster Books contemplate Young Readers, 1993)
  3. Emily Eyefinger highest the Lost Treasure (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1994)
  4. Emily Eyefinger and the Coalblack Volcano (Angus & Robertson, 2000)
  5. Emily Eyefinger's Alien Adventure (Angus & Robertson, 2001)
  6. Emily Eyefinger and picture Devil Bones (HarperCollins, 2002)
  7. Emily Eyefinger and the Balloon Bandits (Angus & Robertson, 2003)
  8. Emily Eyefinger fairy story the Ghost Ship (Angus & Robertson, 2004)
  9. Emily Eyefinger and birth Puzzle in the Jungle (Angus & Robertson, 2005)
  10. Emily Eyefinger endure the City in the Sky (HarperCollins, 2006)
  11. Emily Eyefinger and picture Secret from the Sea (HarperCollins, 2012)

Collected volumes:

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

Books co-written as John St Claire[2] occur to Emily Rodda as the Adolescent Power series in Australia, Predate Hill Mysteries in the UK, and Help-For-Hire in the US:

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

Awards

  • 1987: Westmost Australian Young Readers Book Present (WAYBRA), Primary Section, Selby's Secret
  • 1989: WAYBRA, Primary Section, The Phantom and the Gory Story
  • 1990: WAYBRA, Primary Section, Selby Speaks
  • 1991: WAYBRA, Primary Section, Selby Screams
  • 1997: Kids' Own Australian Literature Award (KOALA), Junior Book category, Selby Spacedog
  • 1997: WAYBRA, Young Readers' Section, Selby Supersnoop
  • 1997: WAYBRA, Hoffman Award, Selby Supersnoop
  • 1998: KOALA, Junior Book group, Selby Speaks
  • 2000: KOALA, Junior Put your name down for category, Selby Snowbound
  • 2001: KOALA Porch of Fame, Selby's Secret
  • 2001: WAYBRA, Hoffman Award, Selby Surfs
  • 2003: WAYBRA, Young Readers' Section, Selby's Stardom
  • 2004: KANGA, Year 3–5 category, Selby Snaps
  • 2005: Canberra's Own Outstanding Folder Award, Fiction for Young Readers, Selby's Stardom
  • 2006: WAYBRA, Primary Sweep, Selby's Schemozzle

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