Books written by Morris Gleitzman

  • New Longman Literature New Titles Pack
    New Longman Literature New Titles Pack

    The best fiction for the Key Stage 3 classroom New Longman Literature

  • 余声

    余声

  • Once: And, Then
    Once: And, Then

    Felix is lucky.

  • Teacher's Pet
    Teacher's Pet

    A funny and exciting story about a kid who's allergic to cats - and possibly her family as well. Another example of Gleitzman's real talent in writing honest stories that hit home with kids.

  • Once
    Once

    To Felix, everything is a story: Why did he get a whole carrot in his soup? It must be sign that his parents are coming to get him. Why are the Nazis burning books?

  • Pico de oro

    Pico de oro

  • Boy Overboard
    Boy Overboard

    A story of adventure, ball control and hope.

  • Now
    Now

    While her physician-parents are working in Africa, eleven-year-old Zelda is living with her grandfather, eighty-year-old Holocaust-survivor Felix Salinger, in Australia, when a disaster leads them both to deal with unresolved feelings about ...

  • The Other Facts of Life
    The Other Facts of Life

    But it's the other facts that are worrying Ben and he decides to find his own answers. He's deadly serious – and the results are very, very funny. The story of one boy's stand for a better world and a slightly better family.

  • Loyal Creatures
    Loyal Creatures

    They were loyal creatures, the men and horses of the Australian Light Horse, but war doesn't always pay heed to loyalty. This is the powerful story of a young man's journey towards his own kind of bravery.

  • Misery Guts
    Misery Guts

    The adventures of twelve-year-old Keith as he tries to cheer up his parents in such ways as painting their shop in bright colors and convincing them to move from gloomy England to a place called Paradise.

  • Gift of the Gab
    Gift of the Gab

    It's a normal week for Rowena Batts. A car full of stewed apples. A police cell. A struggle to keep Dad off national TV. Then her world turns upside down.

  • Toad Rage

    Limpy's family reckons humans don't hate cane toads, but Limpy knows otherwise.

  • Give Peas A Chance
    Give Peas A Chance

    Surprise your mum with a chainsaw, be a bigger star than Tom Cruise, save the world with a plate of veggies, start your new life in a taxi, rescue your family with a tomato, send your dad into a panic with a tractor, do a good deed with a ...

  • Doubting Thomas
    Doubting Thomas

    The truth is . . . Thomas has an embarrassing secret. Is it a rare and special gift or the worst thing that could happen to a boy? A story about best friends, surprising adventures and itchy nipples.

  • Soon
    Soon

    And it was. I hoped we would be safe. But we aren't. Soon continues the incredibly moving story of Felix, a Jewish boy still struggling to survive in the wake of the liberation of Poland after the end of World War Two.

  • Now
    Now

    Set in the current day, this is the final book in Morris Gleitzman's series that began with Once, continued with Then and is . . . Now. Felix is a grandfather. He has achieved much in his life and is widely admired in the community.

  • Then
    Then

    A little hope goes a long way. I had a plan for me and Zelda. Pretend to be someone else. Find new parents, be safe forever. Then the Nazis came. My name is Felix. This is my story.

  • Loyal Creatures
    Loyal Creatures

    'Loyal Creatures' is the deeply moving story of war horse Daisy and her 16-year-old owner Will, sent from the Australian outback to the gruelling Middle Eastern campaign of the First World War.

  • Extra Time
    Extra Time

    ------------------ PRAISE FOR MORRIS GLEITZMAN ‘Readers can't get enough of him.’ The Independent ‘A brilliantly funny writer’ Sunday Telegraph ‘A virtuoso demonstration of how you can make comedy out of the most unlikely ...