Phil Kettle

Clancy of the Outback Series
Too Cool
Queensland
Speaker type
- Author
- Virtual visits
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Phil Kettle is an awarding winning author now based in Queensland. He is the author of 180 books including:
- Toocool
- Boyz Rule
- Get Real
- Girlz Rock
- I Can Be
- Our Australia
- Marcy
- Billy Kool
Welcome to the Clancy of the Outback series
December 2021 sees the release of the Clancy of the Outback series - written by Phil Kettle and Bob Anderson and illustrated by Shane McGowan. The four book pack is published by ambapress
Eleven-year old Clancy, has been thrust into life out woop-woop. These are his stories of his outback adventures at his uncle’s sheep station.
Testimonials
Phil gave a great virtual presentation. He altered his content and delivery from Prep to year 2 really well.
Eagle Junction State School - October 2020It was with pleasure that we welcomed Phil through the Virtual Author Visit last week. The process was successful and Phil had the children eating out of his hands! He answered many questions and spoke passionately about his writing. The kids were engaged and enthused. Thank you so much for the opportunity. We look forward to negotiating Phil's presence in person at our 2020 Writers Festival.
St Mary's Primary School - October 2019Thank you for organising Phil Kettle for us. He was another success story and one of his strengths is that he is an assured writer and the children appreciated that it is his real occupation and has been for years. His books are well known to our students. Phil was prepared to be easy going and also fitted in a visit to a year 5 class which was not on his program. I really appreciate this flexibility.
Phil Kettle - Canterbury College, Book Week, August, 2013.Both authors were great for their target age groups (Phil Kettle and James Roy). Very easy to deal with – no difficult request and amiable to students and staff.
Would certainly recommend them.
Here are some of the student’s comments:
“I was inspired to write more stories and read more books” (Moya 3B)
“It was inspiring!” Lewis 3B
Phil Kettle - Calvary Christian College, August 2013Phil was great, I would book him again and recommend him to other schools.
Phil Kettle - Holy Family Primary School, August, 2013.