Colin Thompson

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  • Bibliography:
    55 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1992
  • Latest Book:
    February 2017
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Full Series List in Order

The Dragons

1 - Camelot (Jun-2011)
2 - Excalibur (Aug-2011)
3 - Mordred (Jan-2012)

The Floods

1 - Good Neighbors (Sep-2008)
2 - Playschool (Feb-2006)
2 - School Plot (Jun-2008)
3 - Home & Away (Sep-2006)
4 - Survivor (Feb-2007)
5 - Prime Suspect (Sep-2007)
6 - The Great Outdoors (Mar-2008)
7 - Top Gear (Sep-2008)
8 - Better Homes and Gardens (Mar-2009)
9 - Who Wants to Be a Billionaire (May-2012)
10 - Lost (Jun-2012)
11 - Disasterchef (Sep-2012)
12 - Bewitched (Jul-2013)
13 - The Royal Family (Jun-2014)
Family Files (Apr-2012)
The Amazing Illustrated Floodsopedia (Apr-2013)

Watch This Space

1 - Out to Launch (Oct-2015)
2 - In the Pink (Feb-2017)

Book List in Order: 55 titles

  • The Paper Bag Prince

  • Pictures of Home

    Colin Thompson's stunning illustrations of 'home' have been linked to verse and comment which they have inspired from children who have seen them. The result of this meeting between the vision of an artist and the honesty of children is a...

  • Looking for Atlantis

    Grandfather left his grandson a seafarer's chest, a parrot called Titanic and a dream - the dream of looking for Atlantis. "Atlantis is right here all around you," Grandfather said, "you have to learn how to look for it." So when Grandfather dies, t...

  • The Paperbag Prince

    This is the story of an old man living in a railway carriage on a rubbish dump who knows that even rubbish can sometimes contain treasure; and that, if he stays long enough, gentle nature will heal the countryside and make it green again....

  • Tower to the Sun

    One hundred years in the future, when the earth is so polluted that the sun can't be seen, the richest man in the world wants his grandson to experience the blue sky and orange sun he remembers from his childhood. So he spends 20 years and all of his...

  • Sailing Home

  • Attila Bluebottle

  • Castle Twilight and Other Stories

  • Haunted Suitcase

    This is a collection of interlinked stories about a very unusual haunted house. They tell of a haunted suitcase which churns out every lost sock in the world, an old seadog called Dogbreath Magroo, and a plughole fairy which causes chaos in the bathr...



  • Sid Mosquito and Other Wild Stories

  • The Last Alchemist

    Long ago in a kingdom far away, Spinifix, the king's alchemist, labored in the dank cellar of the castle to find the secret of turning base metals into gold. The king had promised to share the wealth with Spinifix if he could produce gold before the ...

  • Future Eden

  • Unknown

  • The Violin Man

  • The Great Montefiasco

  • Playschool

    The Floods - 2

    The second book in The Floods 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 chil...

  • Home & Away

    The Floods - 3

    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 Travel back in time to faraway Transylvania Waters and find out what happ...

  • Survivor

    The Floods - 4

    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 -- unlik...

  • Castles

    Enter world upon world, where castles emerge from thin air or spring up overnight in your own garden. Search the intricate pictures, and see if you can find the royal family hidden in the visually imaginative splendor of each castle. Then go back and...



  • Prime Suspect

    The Floods - 5

    The Floods are suspects in a murder case -- can they prove their innocence before it's too late? There's been a murder at Quicklime College and the world's most famous Forensic Special Investigator, Grusom, has been sent to investigate. ...

  • Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley

    Human beings live for quite a long time and for a lot of that time we are not happy. We want to be taller, shorter, fatter, thinner, older and younger. We want our straight hair to be curly, our curly hair to be straight and our brown eyes to be blue...

  • The Great Outdoors

    The Floods - 6

    The Floods 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, wher...

  • School Plot

    The Floods - 2

    For the Floods, school includes classes in howling, burglary, and invisibility. They attend Quicklime College -- the ultimate school for wizards and witches. And if their homework sounds like more fun than yours, that's because it is!

    Th...

  • Good Neighbors

    The Floods - 1

    At first glance, as long as you are at least a hundred feet away and see them from the back on a dark autumn evening when it's raining, the Floods look like any other family.

    They aren't.

    ...

  • Top Gear

    The Floods - 7

    With their worst enemy on their trail, the Floods family are on the run and in disguise in the seventh book of this hilarious series While the Floods were on holiday with their human friends the Hulberts, the Hearse Whisperer totally des...

  • Big Little Book of Happy Sadness

    George lived alone with his grandmother and an empty place where his mother and father should be.

    One Friday on his way home from school, George visited the animal shelter. There, in the very last cage, was Jeremy, a dog who looked as lost an...

  • Witch Friend

  • Norman and Brenda

    Some people face the world with confidence. They are popular, charismatic, incredibly successful and often beautiful. They achieve these things by sheer determination, talent and cosmetic surgery. They have big houses, big cars and big hair. They hav...

  • Better Homes and Gardens

    The Floods - 8

    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 Mord...



  • Wild Stories

  • Falling Angels

    Another classic picture book by the legendary Colin Thompson, reissued by popular demand Sally is just a baby when she first begins to soar above her house and over the garden. Soon she sees her brother and other children floating ov...

  • The Paradise Garden

    Another classic picture book by the legendary Colin Thompson, reissued by popular demand In the quiet of a great garden, away from the noise and fumes of the city, Peter finds the peace and contentment that is missing from his home l...

  • Camelot

    The Dragons - 1

    Introducing Camelot -- the home of kings, queens, noble knights, magic, Fremsley the Royal Whippet, some very aggressive lavatories, and a very spoiled and unpleasant once and future king In the days when dragons roamed the earth turning...

  • Excalibur

    The Dragons - 2

    King Arthur has been overthrown -- long live King Arthur! The Dark Ages are over and the wonderful Days of Yore have begun. Everyone is looking forward to a magnificent coronation of the new King Arthur, followed by huge amounts of legendary peac...

  • Ruby

    Ruby was made in 1934 by Austin Motor Company -- she's shiny, she's beautiful, and this is her story Gorgeously illustrated with pictures so intricate they can occupy readers for hours, this is the story of Ruby, a beloved vintage ca...

  • Mordred

    The Dragons - 3

    The third in the series revealing everything no one ever knew they wanted to know about what really went on in King Arthur's court

    Arthur has been crowned King and peace and happiness have broken out all over Av...

  • Family Files

    The Floods



    Each member of the Flood family has a secret cellar under the house. Find out what's inside, if you dare.


     

    If you ever find make it through the snarling front gate of 13 Acacia St. without being eaten, past Queen Scratchro...

  • Barry

    Barry came to save the world but has been stuck down the back of the couch, in a memorably inventive story with a unique take on environmental themes Barry may be no larger than a can of beans, but his powers are awesome. The trouble i...

  • Free to a Good Home

    What makes a home and a family? A beautiful, funny picture book from Colin Thompson Most people don't like being different. They want exactly the same things as their neighbors, only bigger, and more of them. Yet no matt...



  • Who Wants to Be a Billionaire

    The Floods - 9

    The Floods take on Wall Street and solve the global financial crisis in the ninth book of their hilarious adventures The world is in a recession and millions of people have lost millions of dollars. And just when things are about to get ...

  • Lost

    The Floods - 10

    The Floods are back in their rightful place as rulers of Transylvania Waters -- and there is an enormous amount to do to bring the country out of the dark ages and into the 21st century What does a country need more than anything to become part o...

  • How to Live Forever

    A charming tale of the perils of immortality, from one of Australia's best storytellers. Peter lives with his mother and grandfather in the museum, which has the most weird and wonderful exhibits and a hundred secret doors. When his grandfather ...

  • Fearless in Love

  • Disasterchef

    The Floods - 11

    Despite their families' criticisms of their cooking, friends Betty and Ffiona plan to open a gourmet restaurant, but Queen Mordonna forbids them from doing so unless they can win a popular television cooking contest....

  • My Brother Drinks Out of the Toilet

    A riotous collection of poetry about toilet-water drinkers, non-stop eaters, rock ‘n’ roll teachers and much, much more!My brother drinks out of the toilet;He does it to make Mum go mad.Each time she catches him at itShe says, 'I’m telling your...

  • The Amazing Illustrated Floodsopedia

    The Floods

    Learn all about the history of the Floods in this compendium; one of the most important books of Wizard Stuff ever written

    Now that they're safely ensconced in Castle Twilight as the supreme rulers of Transylvania Waters, the Flood fa...

  • Leap of Faith

    When Kevin Bannister starts a new school his quiet and happy life changes. He finds himself the victim of a sinister and sly bully, Spud (David Tate) who to a bystander looks like Kevin's best friend. When eyes are turned Spud kicks, pokes and punche...

  • Bewitched

    The Floods - 12

    Find out what happens when the King goes Doolally in the latest Floods adventure Everyone gets old, even witches and wizards. Their backs get stiff, their feet get sore, and their brains go and live far, far away. Not even Nerlin Flood, the...

  • The Second Forever

    A return to the enchantment and wonder of the world Thompson first introduced in the award-winning How to Live Forever

    When Peter and his friend Festival destroyed the book called How To Live Forever so it could no longer work its sp...



  • There's Something Really Nasty on the Bottom of my Shoe

    Nothing and nobody is safe in this third collection of hysterically funny poetry. WARNING: only read this book if you have a sense of humour!There’s something really nasty on the bottom of my shoeIt’s making me feel sick. Can’t you smell it too...

  • The Royal Family

    The Floods - 13

    The 13th and final book in the phenomenom that is The Floods!

    With Nerlin and Mordonna now totally senile, Valla becomes King. But an ancient curse that only the ancient Merlin knows about comes true -- ALL the witches and wizards of ...

  • Fearless

    The hilarious new picture book from award-winning author Colin Thompson. Ages 4+ When a new baby is born it's difficult to tell if it will grow up to be big or small or brave or scared of the dark and spiders. So sometimes babies get the wrong name. ...

  • Out to Launch

    Watch This Space - 1

    In this hilarious all new off-the-planet series, a reality TV director comes up with the perfect show idea: sending a family to live on the moon!
    Radius Limpfast is one of the world’s richest men. His reality TV shows have made him billi...

  • Stanley

    From the creator of FEARLESS comes a new canine tale. 'It was very quiet in Stanley's house. there were no brothers or sisters, no dads or grannies, not even a cat, a budgie or a goldfish.' Stanley lives with his human, Gerald, and Gerald's mum. Life...

  • In the Pink

    Watch This Space - 2

    Wait a minute, Earth isn't meant to be pink, and have three moons . . . The Contrast family just wanted to return home after their five minutes of fame living on the moon for the ultimate reality television show, Watch This Space . But it seems that...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Colin Thompson has published 55 books.

Colin Thompson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, In the Pink, was published in February 2017.

The first book by Colin Thompson, The Paper Bag Prince, was published in August 1992.

Yes. Colin Thompson has 3 series.
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