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Mick Elliott Mick Elliott i(9108537 works by)
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1 y separately published work icon Mums and Mogs Mick Elliott , Mick Elliott (illustrator), Newtown : Walker Books Australia , 2024 27477987 2024 single work picture book children's

Look at all the MUMS and MOGS!

A celebratory cat-alogue, to celebrate mums...and their mogs!

'A joyful carnival of fun, family, and more than a little bit of mischief... (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Dads and Dogs Mick Elliott , Mick Elliott (illustrator), Melbourne : Walker Books Australia , 2023 26052008 2023 single work picture book children's 'A delightful dad-full, dog-full celebration of dads and dogs! Dads and Dogs is a romp of a picture book featuring lots of different dads of with all their different dogs. A joyful celebration of togetherness, and the all the fun, chaos, mischief and laughter that dad's best friend brings to the family.' (Publication summary) 
2 y separately published work icon Squidge Dibley Destroys Everything Mick Elliott , Sydney : Lothian , 2020 18579369 2020 single work children's fiction children's

'Squidge Dibley and his 6PU classmates at Craglands Primary are facing their biggest, grossest problem EVER.

'When their beloved teacher, Ms Trigley, suffers a bizarre injury while watching a performance at the school talent quest, Squidge's arch-nemesis (former-Vice-Principal-now-Janitor) Hector Hoovesly takes over teaching duties.

'Hoovesly immediately locks Squidge in a padded room, transforms the entire Craglands South Primary teaching staff into phone-addicted zombies and seizes control of the school.

'But Hoovesly's plan for revenge is only just getting started. He won't stop until he has taken control of EVERYTHING.

'Now, the only chance that Squidge, Padman and 6PU have to stop Hoovesly is buried deep under the school in an ancient, hidden bunker.

'Can Squidge and 6PU save Craglands South Primary before their whole world literally collapses above their heads?' (Publication summary)

1 My Pet Is Not... Mick Elliott , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Funny Bones 2019;
3 y separately published work icon Squidge Dibley Destroys the Galaxy Mick Elliott , Sydney : Lothian , 2019 17352246 2019 single work children's fiction children's

'Picking up where SQUIDGE DIBLEY DESTROYS THE SCHOOL left off, the most hilarious and weirdest Year 6 class on Earth is about to become the most hilarious, weirdest and coolest class in the galaxy - thanks to the out-of-this-world talents of Squidge Dibley. But be warned: this series is too gross for grown-ups!

'After the disastrous events of SQUIDGE DIBLEY DESTROYS THE SCHOOL, things are finally looking up for class 6PU. All the way up into outer space!

'It all begins with half-a-duck and a very naughty python. Throw in an astronaut, a robot, a school hall full of insane inventions and an excursion to space camp, and you've got one crazy, cosmos-sized problem.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2 y separately published work icon Squidge Dibley Destroys History Mick Elliott , Sydney : Lothian , 2019 16745564 2019 single work children's fiction children's

'Squidge Dibley is the strangest kid at a school full of strange kids, in this hilarious series written and illustrated by Mick Elliott. In this Australian Reading Hour exclusive story, Squidge's latest invention blows a hole in the time-space continuum, creating CHAOS, DANGER and SQUIDGINESS.

'Normal kids build dioramas for History assignments. Squidge Dibley builds a time machine. When class 6PU's pet, Bubble O'Gill, accidentally falls into its wormhole and gets lost in time, it's up to the stretchy, bendy kid with ultrasonic burps to rescue him before he dries out and/or destroys life as we know it. Along the way, Squidge encounters some of the weirdest, wildest people and events from history, and leaves each place he visits just a little bit squidgier.'  (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Squidge Dibley Mick Elliott , Melbourne : Lothian , 2019- 16083960 2019 series - author children's fiction
3 1 y separately published work icon Squidge Dibley Destroys the School Mick Elliott , Sydney : Lothian , 2019 16083914 2019 single work children's fiction children's

'Things are going downhill fast for class 6PU at Craglands South Primary School.

'They've changed teachers more times than most kids change their socks, and their latest one is so strict they aren't even allowed to sneeze. But just when it seems like the school term has been turned into a prison term, a new kid arrives.

'A kid unlike any other kid at Craglands South.

'A kid named Squidge Dibley.

'He's small, quiet and strangely ... squidgy.

'And he's about to change everything.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon The Turners : Fully Doomed Mick Elliott , Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2017 12057377 2017 single work children's fiction children's fantasy

'This time, it's global! Can Leo Lennox save the world's Turners from destruction? The riotous and fast-paced conclusion to the bestselling TURNERS trilogy

'Leo Lennox is in big trouble.

'Actually, every Turner on the planet is in big trouble: a deranged scientist is threatening to expose their secret world and destroy them all.

'With help from a pair of guerrilla gorillas (and their incredible inventions), his nerdy friend Ernie, and his annoying-but-sort-of-all-right older sister Abbie, Leo must criss-cross the world to stop the mad doctor before he serves up the full buffet of doom to Turners everywhere.

'If he can't, the planet won't be just a little bit doomed - it'll be fully doomed!'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon The Turners : Camp Freakout Mick Elliott , Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2016 9638904 2016 single work children's fiction children's

When Leo goes to school camp his Turning gets him into strife very quickly.

1 3 y separately published work icon The Turners Mick Elliott , Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2016 9108619 2016 single work children's fiction children's humour adventure

'Leo Lennox has an epic problem. It’s his thirteenth birthday and he has just grown a tail. If it’s not disastrous enough that the scaly growth has torn through the back of his pants in the school library, it turns out to be the first stage in the rapid and total implosion of his life.

'Now, as he discovers an unthinkable family secret, Leo must team up with his infuriating older sister to escape snake-skinned henchmen, ancient shape-shifters and a whispering villain determined to feed him to a pack of genetically engineered killer pigs. All while trying to get his secret crush to notice him.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon The Turners Mick Elliott , Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2016-2017 9108577 2016 series - author children's fiction children's humour adventure

Comedy-adventure trilogy about a family which has the ability to change into animal shapes. The series focuses on 13 year-old Leo and the additional problems he faces while growing into adolescence.

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