Morris Gleitzman

**Morris Gleitzman** (born 9 January 1953 in England) is one of Australia's most successful children's writers. Morris Gleitzman began writing as a screenwriter and enjoyed success writing for the Norman Gunston Show on Australian television. He has also written for the Governor-General of Australia and Rolf Harris.

## Career

Morris Gleitzman has had much success with his children's stories. They have been published in 14 countries around the world including the United States, United Kingdom, France and Australia. Some of his most successful books include _Misery Guts_, _Worry Warts_, _Blabber Mouth_, _Belly Flop_ and _Puppy Fat_. He was born in England, on  9 January 1953.

He had dropped out of school by the age of 16 to live "the hippie dream" and by the time he had moved to Australia was writing many short stories that would later become a reality and turn his small life into a big meaningful life.

His most successful book is _Two Weeks With the Queen_.

### Books

|Year|Title|Imprint|ISBN|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1987|_The Other Facts of Life_|Penguin Books||First novel, adapted from screenplay.|
|1989|_Two Weeks with the Queen_|Pan Books|||
|1990|_Second childhood_|McPhee Gribble/Penguin|||
|1991|_Misery Guts_|Pan Australia|||
|1992|_Worry Warts_|Piper Australia||Sequel to _Misery Guts_.|
|1993|_Blabber Mouth_||Adapted into a play of the same name by Mary Morris in 1996.||
|1994|_Sticky Beak_||Sequel to _Blabber Mouth_.||
|1995|_Puppy Fat_|Piper||Sequel to _Misery Guts_ and _Worry Warts_.|
|1996|_Belly Flop_|Pan Books|||
|1997|_Water Wings_|Pan Macmillan Australia||Loose sequel to _Belly Flop_.|
|1998|_Bumface_|Puffin Books|||
|_Wicked!_||Co-written with Paul Jennings.|||
|1999|_Gift of the Gab_||Sequel to _Blabber Mouth_ and _Sticky Beak_.||
|2000|_Toad Rage_||||
|_Self Helpless: 57 Pieces of Crucial Advice for People Who Need a Bit More Time to Get It Right_|Penguin||||
|2001|_Adults Only_||||
|_Deadly_|Puffin Books||Co-written with Paul Jennings.||
|_Toad Heaven_||Sequel to _Toad Rage_.|||
|2002|_Boy Overboard_||||
|2003|_Teacher's Pet_|Penguin Books|||
|_Toad Away_|Puffin Books||Sequel to _Toad Rage_ and _Toad Heaven_.||
|2004|_Worm Story_|Penguin Books|||
|_Girl Underground_|Puffin Books||Sequel to _Boy Overboard_.||
|2005|_Once_||"...Gleitzman delivers a sharp sense of what it must have been like to be a child during the Holocaust, forced to grow up far too quickly."||
|2006|_Aristotle's Nostril_|Penguin Books|||
|_Doubting Thomas_|Puffin Books||||
|2007|_Give Peas a Chance_||Collection of short stories. Features characters from _Misery Guts_, _Blabber Mouth_, _Second Childhood_, _Belly Flop_, _Adults Only_, _Teacher's Pet_, _Worm Story_ and _Aristotle's Nostril_.||
|2008|_Toad Surprise_||Sequel to _Toad Rage_, _Toad Heaven_ and _Toad Away_.||
|_Then_|Penguin||Sequel to _Once_.||
|2009|_Grace_|Viking|||
|2010|_Now_||Sequel to _Once_ and _Then_ "Readers of the first two books will recognize a great deal, and those who have not should read them to gain a fuller picture of the years before and those in which we live."||
|_Tickled Onions and Other Funny Stories_|Puffin Books||Collection of short stories. Contains some stories from _Give Peas a Chance_.||
|2011|_Too Small to Fail_||||
|_Pizza Cake: And Other Funny Stories_||Collection of short stories. Contains some stories from _Tickled Onions_.|||
|2012|_After_|Penguin Books||Sequel to _Once_, _Then_ and _Now_.|
|2013|_Extra Time_||||
|2014|_Loyal Creatures_||||
|2015|_Soon_|Viking||Sequel to _Once_, _Then_, _Now_ and _After_.|
|2016|_Toad Delight_|Penguin Random House||Sequel to _Toad Rage_, _Toad Heaven,_ _Toad Away_ and _Toad Surprise_.|
|_Snot Chocolate_||Collection of short stories.|||
|2017|_Maybe_||Sequel to _Once_, _Then_, _Now_, _After_ and _Soon_||
|2018|_Funny Stories: and Other Funny Stories_|Puffin Books||Collection of short stories. Contains all stories from _Give Peas A Chance_, _Pizza Cake_ and _Snot Chocolate_, plus one new story.|
|_Help Around the House_|||||
|2021|_Always_|Viking||Sequel to _Once_, _Then_, _Now_, _After_, _Soon_ and _Maybe_.|

## Awards

- 1993
    - BILBY Award (_Blabber Mouth_)
    - CROW Award (_Blabber Mouth_)
- 1994
    - CROW Award (_Sticky Beak_)
- 1997
    - COOL Award (_Belly Flop_)
- 1998
    - BILBY Award (_Bumface_)
    - COOL Award (_Bumface_)
    - KOALA Award (_Bumface_)
    - YABBA Award (_Bumface_)
- 2001
    - YABBA Award: Older Readers (_Toad Rage_)
- 2008
    - ANTO Cole Award (_Toad Rage_)
- 2013
    - COOL Award (_Pizza Cake_)
- 2016
    - Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year: Younger Readers (_Soon_)

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: Morris Gleitzman
- **image**: Morris Gleitzman at Ingleburn Library (6081386435).jpg
- **birth place**: Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England
- **nationality**: Australian
- **occupation**: Novelist
- **notableworks**: The _Toad_ series and Once, Then, Now and After