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AUTHOR
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Jodie
Brownlee is the author of
RUBY ROSEMOUNT AND THE MAGIC CARPET and
RUBY ROSEMOUNT AND THE TRAVELLERS
TELESCOPE. Both books were inspired by
Jodie's love of magic, adventure, exotic places,
genies and camels. A third Ruby Rosemount book
is planned.
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follows Ruby and her two friends Jaffa and Avalon on some
exciting, even dangerous adventures where genies, villains,
sand sprites, charms, dungeons and an underground maze
test all of their powers - including the ones Ruby still
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Jodie
spent her childhood in a rural suburb with her
family and motley band of pets which included
Cohana the one-eyed horse, Bruce the water loving
spaniel, Zoe the cheeky cat, and Toto a blue budgie
who wouldn't stop talking
Jodie
didn't grow up in a house full of books but she
certainly used the local library. Here she discovered
the magic of storytelling in books such as The
Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia, Alice in Wonderland,
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Wind
in the Willows and many others.
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though, Jodie wanted to be an artist and studied
Fine Art at Wollongong. After traveling around the
world for some time, working here and there, doing
this and that, she returned to Australia. She had
several art exhibitions in Sydney, studied photography,
worked for Greenpeace photographing their environmental
actions, learnt multimedia and web management, began
teaching it, and created Greenpeace's website and
the website of many other organisations. In 2000
she moved to Cairns where she now writes full-time.
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Jodie loves to show children how they can write
their own stories because having a little know-how
is the first important step to bigger things.
She is currently working on a third book for
the Ruby Rosemount series as well as a novel for
grown-ups.
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