Morris Gleitzman

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• Apr-2024
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• Mar-2023
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Brilliantly funny short stories for middle school listeners from the ever-popular Morris Gleitzman, in the hilarious style of Give Peas a Chance, Pizza Cake and Snot Chocolate! These short stories are equally funny and hopeful – at a time when ...

• Sep-2020
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Keynote:
The much-anticipated final journey in the story of Felix, hero of Morris Gleitzman''s multi-award-winning Once, Then, After, Soon, Maybe and Now.

It''s fifteen years since readers were first introduced to Felix in Once and across s...

• Oct-2018
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'A brilliantly funny writer' Sunday TelegraphSwap a bomb for three ice-creams on a train... bounce on a vampire's bed... eat a pizza that makes you fearless... read the secret diary of a dog... unleash the awesome power of chips... save ten lives wit...

• Sep-2018
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*SHORTLISTED -- REAL Children's Choice Awards 2019*NOTABLE BOOK -- CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2019Ludo helps other people. It's how he was brought up.When Dad is elected to Federal Parliament, Ludo grabs the chance to make Australia an even bet...

• Jan-2018
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The next compelling chapter in the life of Felix, hero of the award-winning Once, Then, After, Soon, and Now.

1946. Europe is in ruins. Millions of people dream of finding happiness somewhere else.

Fourteen year old Felix is one of th...

• Jun-2017
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Very Yummy Stories.

Stop your mum picking her nose, read the secret diary of a dog, catch a bus and then let it go, discover how one slice of toast can make you the most popular person in school, start wearing a crown and give up eating pig-...

• Jun-2017
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Even more desperate to save his family from ending up on his stack of squashed relatives, Limpy takes his quest to the airwaves. When a TV cooking show kidnaps Goliath to be their main ingredient, Limpy sets out to rescue him and ends up on camera...

• Jan-2016
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• Dec-2015
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'A brilliantly funny writer' Sunday TelegraphAristotle just wants to be happy.And, if possible, have the biggest adventure of his life.With no sneezing.Is that too much for a germ to ask?Meet Aristotle - a germ who wants to laugh and joke, but is liv...

• Dec-2015
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"Doug's not like one of those posh guardian angels in the Bible," Gran used to say. "He's invisible, he doesn't do violence and he's very busy, so if you need him you've got to ask." I'm asking you now, Doug. Mitch needs help. Everyone hates him, ...

• Dec-2015
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He's good at changing nappies. He's brilliant at wiping food off walls. His mum calls him Mr Dependable. But Angus is desperate to be wild and baby-free. Can a bold and brave plan stop his mum getting pregnant again?...

• Dec-2015
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Thomas is eleven and lives with his mum and dad and big sister Alisha. He was a pretty normal kid until two weeks ago when he discovered he had developed a startling new ability. Every time anyone tells a lie Thomas develops a violent itch in his ...

• Dec-2015
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'Readers can't get enough of him.' The IndependentIt's a normal week for Rowena Batts.A car full of stewed apples. A police cell. A struggle to keep Dad off national TV.Then her world turns upside down.Rowena, a girl who can't speak, sets out to unco...

• Dec-2015
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Trying to fit in at a posh new school is really hard when your loving and lovable family also happen to be criminals. Bridget is succeeding pretty well and has even made a friend, Menzies, the son of the federal Minister for National Development. ...

• Dec-2015
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• Dec-2015
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"A serious message wrapped up in greatness of heart and lightness of touch." The BookbagIn the beginning there was me and Mum and Dad and the twins.And talk about happy families, we were bountiful.But it came to pass that I started doing sins.And lo,...

• Dec-2015
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What do you do when your mum, your dad and sixteen camels are in trouble and only you can save them? The sometimes sad but mostly funny story of a boy, a girl, a dog and four trillion dollars....

• Dec-2015
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Where do you get a top grandmother at short notice? It's not easy, but Pearl's got Winston to help her, and you can do anything when your best friend is the world's brainiest guinea pig. Then Pearl meets Gran and the surprises begin....

• Dec-2015
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Bigger and fatter than all the other microbes in the valley, Wilton feels ostracised and out of place. But even more worryingly, their world has become unhealthy and toxic with mass illness and flash storms. Setting out to find out what is wrong, Wil...

• Oct-2015
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Winner - CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2016Winner - YABBA Children's Choice Awards 2016Winner - KOALA Children's Choice Awards 2016Shortlisted - Indie Book Awards 2016Shortlisted - Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards 2016I hoped the Naz...

• Mar-2015
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'Tender and terrible; beautiful, brave and brutal ... one of very best novels I have read.' Michael Morpurgo*NOTABLE BOOK -- CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2015**SHORTLISTED -- Australian Book Industry Awards 2015**SHORTLISTED -- REAL Children's ...

• Jul-2013
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• Sep-2012
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A Holocaust survival story that combines hopeful melancholy with gentle humour Following a heartbreaking struggle to survive as a Jewish child in Germany, Felix faces perhaps his greatest challenge - to find hope when he's lost almost everything. As ...

• Jun-2012
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Felix is a grandfather. He has achieved much in his life and is widely admired in the community. He has mostly buried the painful memories of his childhood, but they resurface when his granddaughter Zelda comes to stay with him. Together they face a ...

• Jun-2012
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STORIES WITH THE LOT!Save ten lives with a paperclip, discover how a big banana can ruin your sister's holiday, make a new friend with a garbage bin, develop a taste for sheep's spleen and chips, bounce on a vampire's bed, rescue your dad from a...

• May-2011
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Felix and Zelda have escaped the train to the death camp, but where do they go now? They're two runaway kids in Nazi-occupied Poland. Danger lies at every turn of the road. With the help of a woman named Genia and their active imaginations, Felix...

• Jan-2007
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Limpy has a vision. A world where cane toads and humans play mudslides together. And help each other with the shopping. And share their slug sauce and maggot moisturiser. But how does a young cane toad discover the ancient secret of living in pea...

• Oct-2006
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Dear Your Majesty the Queen, I need to speak to you urgently about my brother Luke. He''s got cancer and the doctors in Australia are being really slack. If I could borrow your top doctor for a few days I know he/she would fix things up in no time. O...

• Aug-2005
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Felix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. The only problem is that he doesn't know anything about the war, and thinks he's only in the orphanage while his parents travel and try to salvage their booksell...

• Sep-2004
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When Amy arrives home for her birthday tea, her parents have vanished and in their place is a baby she's never seen before. At around the same time Sprocket wakes up naked on a deserted mountainside and realises that he has lost his memory. Both kids...

• May-2003
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'Another example of Gleitzman's real talent in writing honest stories that hit home with kids.' Kids Book ReviewLONGLISTED FOR THE 2003 CHILDREN'S PEACE LIT AWARD Ginger is allergic to cats. And possibly to her family as well.She's also not keen on t...

• Jan-2002
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"Ouch," said Limpy. "Why is my back hurting?" A horrible thought hit him. Perhaps it was a fork wound. Perhaps while he was unconscious the human had tried to eat him. He looked around. All he could see was blue plastic. In this sequel to Toad Rage...

• Aug-2001
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The kitchen was a mess. Packets and jars had been flung around. Half the stuff in the fridge was on the floor. There was a trail of flour running through the passage. For a second Jake thought one of the magazine people must have had an urge to make ...

• 1999
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"Oh, no, Limpy," said Mum in exasperation. "You haven't brought home another dead relative?" Limpy's family reckons humans don't hate cane toads, but Limpy knows otherwise. He's spotted the signs. The cross looks. The unkind comments. The way they s...

• Apr-1996
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In this sequel to Worry Warts and Misery Guts, Keith Shipley is still trying to bring happiness to his now-separated parents, this time by finding each of them a new partner. "A punchy narrative, droll characters and original plot make this a real pa...

• Oct-1995
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Worried because his parents' constant fighting has been aggravated by their financial troubles, twelve-year-old Keith decides to solve the problem by running away to pick up a fortune in the Australian opal fields...

• Apr-1995
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The misadventures of Rowena Batts continue in this poignant but hilarious sequel to Blabber Mouth. "Rowena's circumstances may be very particular, but her brio in surmounting an almost universal set of fears should win a wide audience indeed."--Publi...

• Sep-1993
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'A brilliantly funny writer' Sunday TelegraphIf you don't wake up to yourself, Smalley,' Mr Cruickshank said, 'do you know what you're going to end up as?''Sheep's poop, sir,' said Mark.Mark's father has always wanted him to be a Somebody. But unless...

• 1992
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Two hours ago, when I walked into this school for the first time, the sun was shining, the birds were singing and, apart from a knot in my guts the size of Tasmania, life was great. Now here I am, locked in the stationery cupboard.

Rowena wan...

• 1991
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What does a kid do when his Mum and Dad are misery guts? Move them to a tropical paradise, decides Keith. That''ll cheer them up. It''s a brilliant plan—if he can pull it off.

The first story in the hilarious and heartwarming Keith Ship...

Winner - KOALA Children's Choice Awards 2010 - Fiction for Years 7 -- 9Winner - YABBA Children's Choice Awards 2010 - Fiction for Years 7 -- 9Winner - COOL Children's Choice Awards 2010 - Fiction for Years 7 -- 9Longlisted - Family Award for Children...

This is a cane toad's hilarious quest to discover the true meaning of Christmas! Limpy has a dream. A dream in which cane toads and humans live happily together. Surely this time Limpy will be able to show humans how nice cane toads can be? After all...