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Floods 1: Neighbours by Colin Thompson
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Floods
"The first in a laugh-out-loud series from the ingenious mind of much-loved children's author Colin Thompson. Nerlin and Mordonna Flood have seven children, most of whom were not created in the traditional way like you or me, but were made in the cellar, using incredible mystical powers, some very shiny ...Show more
Floods 11: Disasterchef by Colin Thompson
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The\Floods Ser.
"Betty and Ffiona cooking dinner? Run for your lives! Betty and her friend FFiona love cooking. The trouble is, they are both so useless at it that their families make themselves ill just to avoid their meals.It isn't that their families are too kind to tell the girls how bad their cooking is - they act ...Show more
Floods 2: Playschool by Colin Thompson
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Flood
"The second book in Colin Thompson s brilliantly funny series about a family of witches and wizards who might be living in your town. Look through the cobwebbed, murky arched window in deepest Patagonia, and this is what you might see... Every day five of the Flood children travel halfway round the worl ...Show more
Floods 3: Home And Away by Colin Thompson
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Floods
"The Floods family are on the run from an angry father with a talent for exploding, some very nasty but rather bumbling spies and the prospect of a life down the toilet The Floods family are on the run! Travel back in time to faraway Transylvania Waters and find out what happened when a lowly drain clea ...Show more
Floods 4: Survivor by Colin Thompson
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The\Floods Ser.
"The fourth book in Colin Thompson's brilliantly funny series about a family of witches and wizards who might be living in your town. The youngest child in the Flood family, Betty, is a pretty little girl, who looks quite normal - unlike some of her brothers and sisters. She goes to the normal primary s ...Show more
Floods 6: The Great Outdoors by Colin Thompson
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Floods
"The Flood family go on holiday to the seaside! It isn't just humans who need time off. Wizards do too - and after all the wild adventures the Floods have been through, two weeks at the seaside is exactly what they need. Of course, where the Floods go, trouble is sure to follow. Will Betty use magic to ...Show more
Floods 7: Top Gear by Colin Thompson
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Floods
"With their worst enemy on their trail, the Floods family are on the run and in disguise in the seventh book of this hilarious bestselling series. While the Floods were on holiday with their human friends the Hulberts, the Hearse Whisperer totally destroyed their home back in Acacia Avenue. So now they' ...Show more
Floods 8: Better Homes And Gardens by Colin Thompson
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Floods
"In Transylvania Waters Mordonna and Nerlin should be King and Queen. But there are some seriously nasty characters standing in their way . . . After years on the run, the Floods are coming home. And just in time too. Since Nerlin and Mordonna fled Transylvania Waters, things there have gone from worse ...Show more
Floods 9: Who Wants To Be A Billionaire by Colin Thompson
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Floods
"The Floods take on Wall Street and solve the global financial crisis in the ninth book of their hilarious, bestselling adventures. The world is in a recession and millions of people have lost millions of dollars. And just when things are about to get even worse, the Floods set up Summer School in New Y ...Show more
Free to a Good Home by Colin Thompson
Category: Picture Books
Most people don't like being different. They want exactly the same things as their neighbours, only bigger and more of them. Yet no matter how much they have, they always feel there is something missing. The Smiths are not like other people. They might not be any good at cooking, or housework, or homewo ...Show more
Free to a Good Home by Colin Thompson
Category: Picture Books
The Smith family has always been a little bit different. Their food is usually burnt, homework is a foreign country that they prefer not to visit, and their house is full of strange and unusual things. Other children might collect stray animals, but Peter and Sally Smith bring home an old lady from the ...Show more
Future Eden by Colin Thompson
Category: Fiction
Since January 1999, the crazy adventures of Jay, Kay and Ethel the Chicken - set 250 years in the future - have been available on the Internet. Now their struggle to save the people and animals of the Earth from extinction appears in book form.