Ursula Dubosarsky

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1995
  • Latest Book:
    February 2022
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Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • The White Guinea-Pig

    Geraldine, an eleven-year-old girl, finds her stable life disintegrating into chaos when her father's business falls into suspicious disarray, her best friend harbors a terrible secret, and a mysterious white guinea pig appears in the night....

  • Isador Brown

  • Black Sails, White Sails

  • Magic Wand

    Becky is fed up with her little brother trailing after her. With a swish of her newly discovered magic wand, her brother disappears-and a mysterious black cat appears! Where did he go? And how is Becky going to explain this to her mother? Grades 1-3...

  • Rex

    Rex, a tiny chameleon, is the class pet. Every day someone gets to take him home, along with a notebook for recording his adventures. How cool is that?
    But what's really cool about Rex--the book--is that those exploits are depicted as though each...

  • The Red Shoe

    The earth smelt strong to Matilda and full of things growing and dying all at the same time. She thought about the grey-green tangled bush at the end of her street, full of cowboys and Red Indians, waiting with their guns and their bows and arrows. S...

  • Tibby's Leaf

    Tibby feels like everything is going wrong when her big brother Clarence grows up. He doesn't want to play with her any more and says that pixies only exist in books. But if that's true, what exactly did Tibby see in the bush, peering out from behind...

  • Terrible Plop

    In this uproarious update of a favorite story, an unexplained noise leads to pandemonium among the animals. The fox, the elephant, even the big brown bear prove no match for the Terrible Plop. Only the littlest bunny learns not to panic when the s...

  • Too Many Elephants in This House

    In Eric's house there were too many elephants -- in the living room, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, even in his bedroom! The elephants take up a lot of space, but Eric loves every one of them. So when his mom says they have to go, Eric comes up wit...



  • Abyssinia

    This is the story of two sisters, Mary and Grace. As small children, growing up at their property called Abyssinia, they played with their dolls house together, side by side, always. Grace loved Mary, and Mary loved Grace. But inseparable bonds in...

  • The Last Week in December

    They were coming back! Did they suspect? They must. Just by looking at her, anyone would know she had something to hide.…

    Eleven-year-old Bella has a terrible guilty secret: something she did three years ago, when her English relatives were...

  • The Game of the Goose

    In her hand was a hinged wooden box with a black clasp. On the lid was a painting of a white bird with a long neck, its wings stretched out in flight. Fred rubbed in with her fingers, wiping away the dust. There were some words, written in gold. "...

  • The Golden Day

    When their teacher goes missing during an outing, eleven girls grapple with the aftermath in this haunting, exquisitely told psychological mystery. The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man...

  • The Perplexing Pineapple

    Can Coco and Alberta solve the mystery? The first in a new chapter book series featuring two mystery solving guinea pigs.   Buenos Aires' Chief of Police, Coco Carlomagno, is sure his office high in the Obelisco is haunted. Every day at the s...

  • The Looming Lamplight

    The second in the series featuring the guinea pig detective and his sleuthing cousin   Coco Carlomagno, the well-respected (if somewhat easily startled) Chief of Police, has run into an unusually difficult problem. From his office high in t...

  • The Missing Mongoose

    It's a national emergency! A rare and extremely valuable mongoose is missing and the legendary Buenos Aires zoo is in chaos. But with rabbits in the Tigers' Taj Mahal and hippos in Panda's Palace, the zoo is a very confusing place. Coco may be the Ch...

  • The Dismal Daffodil

    Coco is the well-respected, if somewhat easily startled Chief of Police in Buenos Aires. Alberta is his more sensible cousin. Together they crack the cases that confound this puzzling city. Alberta is helping her cousin Coco, the Chief of Police, sol...

  • Quivering Quavers

    Join the pair of guinea pig detectives in their fifth adventure
    Coco Carlomagno is trying to avert a national disaster. La Bella Cucharita, the highly strung world-famous opera singer, is due to make her return to the stage after an unfort...

  • Talkative Tombstone

    Coco's nerves are all a-jangle. Deep in a cemetery in Buenos Aires, the tomb of the famous, much-lamented tango singer Anibal Manzana has everyone baffled. It is talking! Could it be haunted? Luckily Coco has his commonsensical cousin Alberta on hand...



  • Reindeer's Christmas Surprise

    This distinctly Australian Christmas story about the joy of giving and the importance of family was created by the highly acclaimed picture book team of Ursula Dubosarsky and Sue deGennaro. Ursula Dubosarsky is the Australian Children's Laureate for ...

  • The Blue Cat

    A boy stood in the playground under the big fig tree. 'He can't speak English,' the children whispered. Sydney, 1942. The war is coming to Australia - not only with the threat of bombardment, but also the arrival of refugees from Europe. Dreamy Colum...

  • One Little Goat

    It starts with one little goat. It ends with one little goat. But what happens in between is a whirlwind of nonsense and fun. International favorites Ursula Dubosarsky and Andrew Joyner make the most of their advanced sense of the ridiculous in this ...

  • Brindabella

    This is a story about a boy called Pender and a kangaroo called Brindabella, about how they became friends, and all the things that happened to them because of it. Pender and his father live in an old house made of honey-coloured stone in the bush by...

  • Pierre's Not There

    Ursula Dubosarsky is the Australian Children's Laureate for 2020 - 2021 Lara had always wished she was a dog, and one day, just for a short time, she actually became one. This is how it happened. In a mulberry brick house on the harbour that Lara exp...

  • Fairy Bread

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ursula Dubosarsky has published 25 books.

Ursula Dubosarsky does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Pierre's Not There, was published in February 2022.

The first book by Ursula Dubosarsky, The White Guinea-Pig, was published in March 1995.

No. Ursula Dubosarsky does not write books in series.
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