Andy Griffiths (69 works by) (a.k.a. Andrew Griffiths )
Born: Established: 1961 Melbourne ;
Gender: Male
BAL: Agent has also written several school textbooks; eg.: 'Stepping-stones', Judith Taylor, Andrew Griffiths, Josephine Szabo, Port Melbourne : Heinemann Education, c1993 ; and another one: 'Stairways', Judith Taylor, Andrew Griffiths, Josephine Szabo, Port Melbourne : Heinemann Education, c1993. More egs in Kinetica. LH 26.03.03

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.

Awards for Works

The 26-Storey Treehouse , 2012 children's fiction single work 'Join Andy and Terry in their newly expanded treehouse, which now features 13 brand-new storeys, including a dodgem car rink, a skate ramp, a mud-fighting arena, an anti-gravity chamber, an ice-cream parlour with 78 flavours run by an ice-cream serving robot called Edward Scooperhands and the Maze of Doom - a maze so complicated that nobody who has gone in has ever come out again... well, not yet, anyway.' (Publisher's blurb)
2013 shortlisted Indie Awards — Children's
2013 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Book of the Year for Older Children
The Thirteen-Storey Treehouse , 2011 children's fiction single work 'Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-storey treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games room, self-making beds, vines you can swing on, a vegetable vaporiser and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots your favourite flavoured marshmallows into your mouth whenever it discerns you're hungry.

'Two new characters - Andy and Terry - live here, make books together, and have a series of completely nutty adventures. Because: ANYTHING can happen in a 13-storey treehouse.' (From the publisher's website.)
2012 shortlisted Indie Awards — Children's
2012 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Book of the Year for Older Children
2012 winner COOL Award — Fiction for Older Readers
2012 winner KROC Awards — Fiction Older Readers
The Very Bad Book , 2010 children's fiction poetry selected work 'In a very bad wood,
There was a very bad house.
And in that very bad house,
There was a very bad room.
And in that very bad room,
There was a very bad cupboard.
And in that very bad cupboard,
There was a very bad shelf.
And on that very bad shelf,
There was a very bad box.
And in that very bad box,
There was a VERY BAD BOOK...
AND THIS IS IT!!!' (From the publisher's website.)
2011 shortlisted Indie Awards — Children's
2011 winner KOALA — Younger Readers
2011 winner COOL Award — Fiction for Younger Readers
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