Morris Gleitzman Books in Order

After a shocking news report about famine and nuclear weapons, twelve-year-old Ben can’t stop worrying about the state of the world. His attempts to protest and educate everyone from his dad to his classmates lead to chaotic, funny and sometimes moving consequences.

Mark and his friends are sick of being told they’ll grow up to be nobodies. When a school project and a strange old house hint they might be reincarnations of famous figures from Australia’s past, they set out to prove it—and to change their futures.

Keith’s parents run a struggling fish-and-chip shop in gloomy South London and never seem to smile. Determined to cheer them up, Keith hatches ever-bigger schemes—from repainting the shop mango orange to dreaming of Australia—that backfire in spectacular, heartwarming ways.

When his little brother is diagnosed with cancer, Australian kid Colin is shipped to relatives in England ‘until it’s all over’. Refusing to accept that, he sets out to reach the Queen and the world’s best cancer doctor, discovering unexpected friendship and hard truths.

A collection of Morris Gleitzman’s sharp, funny newspaper columns about television, skewering everything from game shows to current affairs. Written for adults, these pieces mix pop-culture gossip with wry observations about family life, media obsession and the way screens shape our days.

Now living in Australia, Keith is still desperate to make his parents happy. Convinced money is the answer, he drags best friend Tracy off to the outback opal fields, launching a wild treasure hunt that’s equal parts hopeful scheme and dangerous adventure.

Rowena Batts can’t speak because of a throat condition, but she refuses to be treated as helpless. Armed with a sharp mind, quick pen and an embarrassingly loud country-singer dad, she tackles a new school, bullies and big questions about courage and belonging.

Keith’s parents are divorced, out of shape and miserable, and he’s terrified they’ll be lonely forever. His makeover plans—nude portraits, exercise campaigns and the arrival of glamorous Aunty Bev—create chaos, forcing him to rethink what real happiness and love look like.

In her second adventure, Rowena is adjusting to life with a new stepmum and a baby on the way. When she rescues an abused cockatoo from the local bully, her fight to protect the bird forces her to stand up for herself and her family.

In a drought-stricken country town, Dougy dreams of becoming a diving champion even though the swimming pool is almost empty. His attempts to fill it—with borrowed bathwater and wild weather experiments—collide with a girl grieving her guinea pig and a town full of secrets.

Still reeling from their first brush with the Appleman, Rory and Dawn face a new horror: rampaging, virus-fuelled rams laying siege to their town. To stop them, the uneasy step-siblings must work together and trust their own very odd allies.

A strange plague is turning people in Terngabbie green and croaky, and only Rory and Dawn suspect the Appleman’s hand behind it. Chased by mutants and ignored by adults, they race to uncover the virus before their town is literally croaked.

When people start behaving like creepy duplicates of themselves, Rory and Dawn realise the Appleman’s latest virus is copying whole personalities. Exposed to danger at every turn, they must decide who’s real, who’s a ‘dead ringer’, and how to shut the scheme down.

A new outbreak turns harmless household objects into things that stalk and grab. As furniture creeps and vines crawl, Rory and Dawn uncover another of the Appleman’s twisted plots and head deep into his lair, where the truth about his past begins to surface.

Rory and Dawn have just become step-siblings in the sleepy town of Terngabbie when they stumble on a monstrous creature called a Slobberer. Soon they’re dragged into a bizarre battle against the Appleman and his disgusting, world-threatening viruses.

In the final Wicked! instalment, Rory and Dawn confront the Appleman’s ultimate plan, which could poison the whole world. With their families in peril and the town turning on them, the pair gamble everything on one last, wildly risky showdown.

Pearl is convinced life would be easier with a proper grandmother, not a busy mum and a guinea pig who tries to save her from roof rescues. When a real gran appears, Pearl’s hopes for cakes and cuddles collide with grief, change and unexpected kindness.

Eleven-year-old Angus looks after his toddler siblings while his soap-opera-star mum races through boyfriends and babies. Desperate to stop another pregnancy, he plots wildly inventive schemes, helped by new friend Rindi and his pirate alter ego, Bumface.

This volume brings all six Wicked! books together, following step-siblings Rory and Dawn through every slime-soaked, virus-twisted battle with the sinister Appleman. Ideal if you want the entire, over-the-top adventure in one place.

Rowena Batts is off to Europe with her dad’s country band, hoping to finally meet the mum who left when she was born. Between backstage disasters and family secrets, Ro has to decide what ‘having a voice’ really means for her.

Amy and Sprocket dig deeper into the Turner brats’ twisted plans, juggling school, a two-year-old mum and a trail of dangerous blue plants. Each clue pulls them further into a conspiracy where staying young forever comes at a terrible price.

Amy and Sprocket track the source of the blue tea to a remote island laboratory, where creepy experiments push the anti-aging formula to new extremes. Captured, they must use every bit of nerve—plus one very resourceful toddler—to escape.

On the run across the countryside, Amy, Sprocket and toddler Mum are hunted by the Turners and their thugs. As the blue-plant infestation spreads, the kids race to destroy the seeds before they fall into even more dangerous hands.

Sprocket, a runaway searching for the woman in his only photograph, collides with Amy, whose mother has been turned into a toddler by a mysterious blue tea. Their hunt for answers reveals a sinister family brewing a youth potion that could reshape the world.

In the explosive finale to the Deadly! series, Amy and Sprocket confront the Turner brats on their home turf. With the world’s youth—and Amy’s family—at stake, the kids gamble on a last-ditch plan to wipe out the blue plants for good.

This collection gathers fifty-seven tongue-in-cheek pieces about modern life and self-improvement, offering ‘crucial advice’ on everything from relationships to work. Gleitzman gently mocks our obsession with fixing ourselves while admitting how hard it is to get things right.

The trail of the deadly blue tea leads Amy and Sprocket to a funeral parlour with very lively corpses. Chased by ruthless adults who’ll do anything to protect their secret, the pair must decide who they can trust—and how far they’re willing to run.

Limpy, a slightly squashed young cane toad, is desperate to understand why humans hate his kind and keep flattening his relatives on the highway. Convinced he can change their minds, he sets off on a hilarious, dangerous quest that reaches the Sydney Olympics.

Jake lives on a remote island resort that proudly advertises ‘no kids’. As the owners’ secret son, he has to stay hidden from guests, until ghosts, financial trouble and a visiting journalist force him to fight for both his family and the island’s forgotten children.

Convinced there must be a safe place for cane toads, Limpy sets out to find a toad heaven where no one tries to squash you. With loyal but dim cousin Goliath beside him, he discovers national parks, human cruelty and the limits of perfect safety.

Jamal loves football and dreams of playing for Australia, but his life in Afghanistan is shattered when his parents’ secret school for girls is exposed. Fleeing toward Australia by people-smuggler boat, Jamal and fearless sister Bibi face mines, pirates, storms and the constant fear of loss.

Allergic to cats and surrounded by them at home, Ginger thinks she’s a definite cat person—until a mysterious stray dog starts following her to school. As a class project turns political, she uncovers secrets about trust, loyalty and what families choose to believe.

Bridget longs for a quiet life and parents who don’t keep getting arrested for shoplifting. Instead she teams up with classmate Menzies, the son of a government minister, to break two Afghan children out of an Australian desert detention centre.

When a vision of cane toads and humans living peacefully together grips Limpy, he decides to hop all the way to the species’ original homeland. Alongside Goliath and little sister Charm, he crosses deserts and cities to chase an almost impossible dream of coexistence.

Wilton is a chubby intestinal worm who never quite fits in with the other microbes living inside ‘Janet’. When strange storms threaten their world, Wilton and tiny sidekick Algy embark on a perilous journey through stomachs, sludge and underpants to save their host.

Aristotle is a rule-breaking germ who just wants to joke around, but his nostril home is run like a humourless dictatorship. Banished with his brother Blob, he’s flung into the wider world, where sneezes, hankies and human wars make survival a very messy business.

In Nazi-occupied Poland, ten-year-old Felix escapes a Catholic orphanage to find his missing parents. On the road he rescues Zelda, a younger girl, and together they face ghettos, trains and terrifying violence, clinging to stories and friendship to stay alive.

After leaping from a death train, Felix and Zelda stumble through wartime Poland looking for safety. A tough farmer reluctantly hides them, but betrayal and brutality close in, forcing Felix to decide how far he’ll go to protect his friend.

Thomas develops an embarrassing problem: whenever he tells a lie, his nipples itch like crazy. That’s awkward enough, but when he’s falsely accused of inappropriate touching at school, he must decide whether to stay silent or let the truth ruin his reputation.

This collection of short stories features familiar Gleitzman characters and new faces tackling babysitting disasters, global warming, texting parents, runaway germs and more. Each tale mixes quick laughs with a sideways look at how kids try to fix a baffling world.

Limpy dreams of a truce between cane toads and humans and decides Christmas is the perfect time to prove how helpful toads can be. His plan to become Santa’s little helper, however, involves reindeer, shopping centres and plenty of slapstick danger.

Grace has grown up in a strict religious community that believes questioning is sinful. When her father is expelled for challenging the leaders, Grace must choose between absolute obedience and the family she loves—and figure out what faith means for herself.

In modern-day Australia, ten-year-old Zelda idolises her grandfather Felix, a Holocaust survivor. A catastrophic bushfire and school bullying drag old memories to the surface, and together they must face the past so Zelda can understand who Felix really is.

Now a teenager hiding in a barn, Felix is dragged back into danger when Nazi collaborators threaten the man who saved him. Joining a partisan band in the forests, he confronts sabotage, betrayal and impossible choices about loyalty and forgiveness.

Ten offbeat short stories serve up everything from fearless pizza to heroic paperclips and vengeful vegetables. Perfect for dipping into, this collection lets Gleitzman push his comedy to the limit while still sneaking in small truths about families, fairness and bravery.

Oliver’s parents run a glamorous investment bank and barely notice him; all he wants is a scruffy pet-shop puppy. A blackmail threat over the dog drags Oliver into a world of dodgy deals, lost savings and sixteen camels, where he has to clean up grown-ups’ mess.

Football-mad Aussie siblings Matt and Bridie are recruited to a struggling English Premier League club. As Matt tries to prove himself on the pitch, Bridie becomes his self-appointed agent, helping jaded stars rediscover why they fell in love with the game.

Teenager Frank lies about his age to join the Australian Light Horse in World War I, taking beloved horse Daisy to the Middle East. Amid desert battles and homesickness, he learns what loyalty costs—especially when the army decides the horses won’t be coming home.

The war is officially over, but the ruins of Poland are still deadly. Thirteen-year-old Felix and his protector Gabriek scavenge for survival while nationalist gangs hunt anyone they see as an enemy, forcing Felix to decide what kind of person he’ll be.

War-scarred teenager Felix dreams of a new life in Australia, but first he must help pregnant Anya escape the dangers of postwar Europe. Their journey by sea tests their courage, their fragile hope, and Felix’s belief that the world can change.

Tour buses start arriving at Limpy’s swamp, turning cane toads into a tourist attraction and possible menu item. As humans film, poke and fry his rellies, Limpy struggles to protect his family and show that toads are more than pests or souvenirs.

At eighty-seven, retired surgeon Felix thinks his fighting days are over. Then ten-year-old Wassim arrives begging for help against a violent neo-fascist gang, drawing Felix back to Europe and into one last, high-stakes confrontation with the hatred he escaped.