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Year: 2000
winner y Just Stupid! Sydney : Pan , 1999 Z893846 1999 selected work children's fiction children's humour'Another JUST outrageous title from the author of the NY Times bestseller THE DAY MY BUTT WENT PSYCHO! The series that made Andy Griffiths an Australian publishing phenomenon is sweeping America!
'Before introducing the world to butts gone bad, Andy Griffiths unleashed the bestselling JUST books. The series continues to amuse, annoy, and totally ick out readers with this latest collection of just stupid stories.
'GASP as Andy careens downhill in a runaway baby carriage wearing only a diaper.... SQUIRM as he almost explodes searching for a bathroom in a shopping mall.... GROAN as he stuffs twenty marshmallows in his mouth-and then has to kiss the cutest girl in class...
'But most of all, LAUGH -- because Andy Griffiths is back with more JUST STUPID adventures!' (Publication summary) -
Year: 1999
winner y Just Annoying! Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1998 Z804322 1998 selected work children's fiction children's humour These nine uniquely Australian stories find the author in hilarious situations doing those things you did not dare do as a child. -
Year: 1998
winner y Cool School : You Make it Happen Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1995 Z191119 1995 single work novel humour young adult -
Year: 1997
winner y Water Wings Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1996 Z140390 1996 single work novel young adult'Pearl's life is decidedly wonky. Her dad's run off, her mum doesn't love her, her cousin Mitch is mad and her guinea pig's in the freezer. The only thing she can think of to straighten things out is a grandmother. A sweet, gentle, apple-pie grandmother. All the other kids have one, fussing, knitting and leaving lipstick slobber marks on their cheeks, so why doesn't she? Then she inherits Gran, and things are never quite the same again...'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Year: 1996
winner y Undone! : More Mad Endings Ringwood : Puffin , 1993 Z796883 1993 selected work children's fiction children's humour
— Appears in: Absolut unglaublich! 2003;'A collection of eight quirky, bizarre, and very funny short stories.'
Listed on the awards website as having won both this award and the KOALA Award for Infants/Primary in 1994.