Morris Gleitzman

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Morris Gleitzman (the Gleitz in Gleitzman rhymes with lights) is a famous children's author. He was born 9 January 1953 in England and migrated to Australia with his family. When he was 16 he dropped out of school to assume a hippy lifestyle.

His funny and sometimes politically-controversial children's books include Two Weeks with the Queen, Second Childhood, Other Facts of Life, Misery Guts, Worry Warts, Puppy Fat, Belly Flop, Water Wings, Toad Rage, Toad Heaven, Toad Away, Boy Overboard, Blabbermouth, Sticky Beak, Gift of the Gab, Adult's Only, Bumface, Teacher's Pet, Girl Underground, Worm Story, Once and Aristotle's Nostril.

Gleitzman has also published three collections of his newspaper columns for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald into books for an adult readership. He used to write for the popular Norman Gunston Show in the 1970s.

As of 2006, his latest book is Doubting Thomas.

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