Born: Established: 1961 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender:
Male
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Most Referenced Works
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Voted number 9 in the Booktopia Top 50 Favourite Australian Authors for 2018
Personal Awards
- 2023 joint winner YABBA — Graham Davey Citation
Awards for Works
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The 169-Storey Treehouse
Sydney
:
Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2023
26389827
2023
single work
children's fiction
children's
'Now, Andy and Terry have built their biggest and most astonishing treehouse yet! It has everything they - and you - could wish for, including an electric pony stable, a Santa Land, a NOISY level, a kangaroo-riding range, a weather dome (where you can have whatever weather you want whenever you want it), a 100% edible gingerbread house and a potato-powered translation transmitter that allows you to talk to everything everywhere all at the same time. There's also a hall of funhouse mirrors, which is the perfect place to hide from Mr Bunkoff who is trying to catch Andy, Terry and Jill in order to send them to SCHOOL. But Anti-Andy, Terrible Terry and Junkyard Jill, their trouble-making opposites, are trapped in one of the mirrors - and they want out. (Oh, and Mr Big Nose wants them to write their book ... RIGHT NOW.) Well, what are you waiting for? Can our heroes escape school, do battle with their doppelgangers AND meet their book deadline? Come on up to find out!' (Publication summary)
- 2024 longlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year — Children's Book of the Year
- 2024 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Book of the Year for Younger Children
- 2024 longlisted Indie Awards — Children's
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y
Treehouse Tales : Too SILLY to Be Told ... UNTIL NOW!
Sydney
:
Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2022
23667919
2022
selected work
children's fiction
children's
'WARNING! DO NOT READ THIS BOOK. IT CONTAINS THIRTEEN OF THE SILLIEST TALES THE TREEHOUSE TEAM HAVE EVER TOLD. TALES SO SILLY THEY COULD BREAK YOUR BRAIN*. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. PUT IT DOWN. PUT IT DOWN NOW. BY ORDER OF THE STORY POLICE. *Unless you don't have one, in which case you'll be fine so please disregard this warning.' (Publication summary)
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y
The 143-Storey Treehouse
Sydney
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Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2021
22942453
2021
single work
children's fiction
children's
'Andy and Terry's treehouse now has 13 new storeys, including a word-o-matic (it knows every word in the whole world!); a recycling depot; a wrecking ball; a deep, dark cave with a real live, fire-breathing dragon; a too-hard basket; a SUPER BIG STUFF storey; a baked-bean geyser (it erupts on the hour, every hour); a Ye Olde Worlde Historical Village; a fish milkshake level (the penguins love them!); a complaining room; a spooky graveyard (where it's always midnight, even in the middle of the day); a toffee apple orchard guarded by a kind scarecrow; and a camping ground where you can have a nice, relaxing camping holiday - unless you get caught by hobyahs, put in a bag and poked with a stick, that is ...' (Publication summary)
- 2022 honour book YABBA — Fiction for Older Readers
- 2022 shortlisted REAL Awards — Fiction for Older Readers
- 2022 winner KOALA Awards — Older Readers
- 2022 winner KROC Awards — Fiction Older Readers
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