Jackie French — the girl with dyslexia who became a famous author

Fierce Girls

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Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.4 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Jackie French could read entire novels by the time she was three years old. But when she arrived at school, letters appeared back to front, and maths equations were gobbledegook. Jackie was confused, but it didn't stop her from reading, writing, or coming up with astonishingly creative tales. Jackie read everything in sight, and then decided to write her own stories. Now, she has written more than 200 books, sold millions of copies, has spread the joy of reading far and wide, and she never plans to stop.

Narrated by star of Orange is the New Black, actor Yael Stone.

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0:00.0	This is the story of the girl who is dyslexic but wrote famous.
0:07.0	Girl Cow.
0:08.0	This is the story of the girl who is dyslexic but wrote famous books Jackie French,
0:16.0	read by Star of Orange and New Black The Isle Stone. Jackie, dinner time!
0:25.0	dinner time!
0:28.0	Jackie French couldn't hear her grandmother.
0:30.0	She was too busy playing in her imaginary land.
0:34.0	She had a friend there called Little Tending Girl.
0:37.0	Tending was short for pretending,
0:40.0	because Jackie's friend was also imaginary.
0:43.0	Jackie, dinner!
0:46.0	Come on little tending girl, said Jackie.
0:50.0	Let's go chat to the sparrows.
0:52.0	At dinner time... Let's go chat to the sparrows.
1:00.2	At dinner time, Grandmother always opened the window and set a place at the table for the birds to flutter in and take a nibble.
1:08.0	Jackie liked how they shared their space with wildlife.
1:15.3	Jackie loved to tell amazing stories to the animals, birds and little tendon girl. But they were mostly based on books she'd already read.
1:19.2	And boy, had Jackie read everything she could.
1:25.0	She read the newspaper.
1:26.9	She read the phone book, a giant book that stored thousands
1:31.0	of names and phone numbers in it.
1:33.0	Then she went to the library and read everything in the children's section.
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