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Jinny & Cooper #3

Jinny & Cooper: Curse of the Genie's Ring

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Warning!
This story contains magic, genies, talking animals (more than one!), enchanted bags and some super flashy jewellery!


When Jinny and her brother, Tyrone, find a ring in Miss Morgan's attic, they have no idea about the terrible danger they're in. Tyrone awakens a genie, and once he's made one sneaky little wish, he can't stop!

Can Jinny and Cooper save Tyrone before the genie's curse traps him forever? And can Cooper resist using the ring to wish for a cake as big as a house?

Don't do it, Cooper!

127 pages, Paperback

Published August 29, 2016

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About the author

Tania Ingram

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Tania Ingram is an award winning, internationally published author of children’s picture books and novels including the rollicking Jinny and Cooper series and the bestselling Aggie Flea series. She has acted as a peer assessor on the literature panel for Arts South Australia’s grants program and is an active ambassador for the SA Premier’s Reading Challenge.

She was born in Whyalla, South Australia and moved to Adelaide as a teenager. She studied at the University of South Australia and graduated with a Masters Degree in clinical psychology. Prior to becoming a full time writer she was a child psychologist, specialising in brain injury, disability and adolescent mental health.

Tania’s first picture book, Dog on Log was published in 2013. This story evolved from a game Tania played with her young daughter. The purpose of the game was to teach rhyme, phonetics and prepositions. Tania sent the story to a publisher and was thrilled when it was picked up for publication.

My Teacher’s Big Bad Secret, the first book in the Jinny and Cooper series was published in February 2016, and was shortlisted in the 2016 Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards.

Book #2, Revenge of the Stone Witch was also published in February 2016 while Books #3, Curse of the Genie’s Ring and #4, Search for the Sea Bogle, followed in September 2016.

Tania also has an Aussie Mates book for junior readers, The Great Barbie Disaster, which was published in November 2016 and her celebrated picture book, Oma’s Buttons, was released in April 2018.

The first book in her hilarious Aggie Flea series, Aggie Flea is NOT a liar!, came out in September 2023 and was listed as a Notable Book in the 2024 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards. Book 2, Aggie Flea Steals the Show! was released in March 2024 and won an honour book award in the 2025 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards.

Also released in 2024 was her acclaimed mid-grade novel, The Other Shadow, which has won several awards including a Notable Book award in the 2024 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards 2025, a shortlist placement for The Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature in the 2025 NSW Literary Awards, and a shortlist / second place award in the Forevability Awards 2025.

In 2024, Tanis also released two picture books - Walls, and The Bug Book.

In her spare time, Tania likes to read children’s fiction, crochet crooked rugs and sing to her chickens who pretend to be oblivious to her talent.

www.taniaingram.com

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