Andy Griffiths Andy Griffiths i(A48610 works by) (a.k.a. Andrew Griffiths)
Born: Established: 1961 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Andy Griffiths studied Arts at university, was a singer in a rock band, and has been a taxi driver, a factory worker and a bottle-shop attendant. After gaining a Diploma in Education he became a teacher and started writing humorous stories for children.

His series of Just... books has won a number of children's literature awards and have been published in the US and UK. The series has also been made into a cartoon.

Griffiths is also the author of school text books.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Voted number 9 in the Booktopia Top 50 Favourite Australian Authors for 2018

Personal Awards

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon 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
y separately published work icon 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)
2024 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards — Eight to 10 Years
y separately published work icon The 143-Storey Treehouse Sydney : 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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