Books in series
#1
Tetangga Menyebalkan
2005
The Floods aren't like other families - for a start, they're all witches and wizards. And they weren't made in the traditional way like you or me. Some of Nerlin and Mordonna Flood's six eldest children were made in the cellar, using a ancient recipe book and a very big turbocharged wand. The youngest child, Betty, is a normal, pretty little girl - but her attempts at magic never go the way she plans. The next-door neighbours should have known better than to annoy a family of witches and wizards. But they did, and they're about to find out what the Floods do to bad neighbours.
#2
Sekolah Sihir
2006
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 world to Quicklime College, the ultimate school for witches and wizards. There's no time for silly games flying around on broomsticks. Sports day is coming up, and before you even wonder how four-legged Satanella copes with the three-legged race, here's a secret for you. Orkward Warlock, the vilest child in the school, and his sidekick, The Toad, hate the big happy Floods family. And they're plotting to kill the Floods - on sports day.
#3
Asal Usul Keluarga Flood
2006
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 happened when a lowly drain cleaner called Nerlin Flood fell in love with the royal princess Mordonna. Can the two escape from an explosively angry King Quatorze, the nastiest spies in the land, and the prospect of life down the toilet? Why does their eldest child, Valla, drink blood? Was Satanella really turned into a dog because of an accident with a prawn and a faulty wand? This is your chance to find out how all the Floods children came to be born—or created.
#3
Home & Away
2006
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 happened when a lowly drain cleaner called Nerlin Flood fell in love with the royal princess Mordonna. Can the two escape from an explosively angry King Quatorze, the nastiest spies in the land, and the prospect of life down the toilet? Why does their eldest child, Valla, drink blood? Was Satanella really turned into a dog because of an accident with a prawn and a faulty wand? This is your chance to find out how all the Floods children came to be born—or created.
#4
Survivor
2007
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 school down the road and she even has a normal best friend, Ffiona Hulbert.
But Betty is not normal - she is a witch. When Bridie McTort, the school bully, starts throwing her weight around, Betty knows exactly what to do. And when Ffiona's dad gets bullied at work. Betty knows how to fix that too. Meanwhile, Winchflat Flood has been watching old Frankenstein movies and has decided he wants to build a human of his own...
#5
Prime Suspect
2007
The fifth book of The Floods series.
A murder happened in Quicklime College, where five of the Flood children go to school. Investigators were sent in to solve the case... only to find surprises about the true nature of the death.
#6
Floods 6
The Great Outdoors
2008
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, where the Floods go, trouble is sure to follow.
Will Betty use magic to cheat in the sand castle competition? Why is Winchflat stuck in the sand with the tide coming in? Will Mordonna take revenge when she sees animals being mistreated in the circus? One thing's for sure—the sleepy town of Port Folio will never be the same.
#7
Top Gear
2008
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 destroyed their home back on Acacia Avenue. So now they're on the run—again! To avoid detection they are, like, totally heavily disguised, man. It's totally far out—the Floods have become hippies! Will they end up living a life of love and peace and singing folk songs about rainbows and sunsets? Will they wear flowers in their hair and hemp sandals on their feet? Yeah, right.
#8
Better Homes and Gardens
2009
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 to much worse. King Quatorze has bled the country dry. He's even sold everyone's shoelaces. It's time for a change, time for life with a lot less cabbage and a lot more chocolate. But the Floods have to get rid of the old king first.
#9
Who Wants to be a Billionaire
2010
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 York and take control. Hooray, help is at hand - but as they say, charity begins at home. So millions of people will probably lose millions more dollars, but it will all work out fine in the end. Well, for the Floods anyway. Hey, come on. They're witches and wizards, not some sort of charity.
#10
Floods 10
Lost
2011
The caves under Transylvania Waters are about to be explored for the first time ever. What will the Floods find?
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. But what does a country need to become part of the modern world? Well, it needs socks, PlayStations and seventy-three varieties of genetically modified sausage, but above all else it needs maps.
Winchflat's new wife, Maldegard, has been appointed Transylvania Waters' first ever Official Map-Maker. What she and Edna Hulbert discover during their travels will astound, terrify, amuse and intrigue you.
#11
Disasterchef
2012
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 actually tell them all the time. But Betty and Ffiona don't believe them, and now the girls are planning to open Transylvania Waters' first gourmet restaurant.
Queen Mordonna forbids them . . . unless they can prove their cooking skills by winning TV's most popular cooking contest. Will they poison all the judges, or will The Cheffie Olympics be Betty and Ffiona's finest hour?
#12
Bewitched
2013
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 King of Transylvania Waters, is immune to the curse of old age. The rest of the family have noticed that Nerlin is slipping into total Doolallyness—including having an invisible friend called Geoffrey who warns him not to eat broccoli because it will give him global warming. Only the Old Crones can help Nerlin, so his family travel high up into the mountains to visit them. Will the wisest witch of all, Gruinard, be able to cure him, or is Nerlin doomed to spend his twilight years talking to the wall, wearing a crooked jacket?
#13
The Royal Family
2014
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 the world turn back into ordinary human beings. Naturally they fight it, but do they succeed?
#15
The Amazing Illustrated Floodsopedia
2013
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 family of witches and wizards have decided to share their immense wisdom, magic, and bacon-orientated secrets and history. From Winchflat's Wonderful World of Inventions to recipes from Betty's restaurant to digging up (literally) stories about the Floods' obscure relatives, this book will make fans of the Floods giggle, guffaw, and chortle for hours.
Author
Colin Thompson
Author · 52 books
Since he started writing and illustrating children's books in 1990, Colin Thompson has had more than 50 books published. He has received several awards, including an Aurealis Award for the novel HOW TO LIVE FOREVER and the CBC Picture Book of the Year in 2006 for THE SHORT AND INCREDIBLY HAPPY LIFE OF RILEY. He has been shortlisted for many other awards, including the Astrid Lindgren Award - the most prestigious children's literature prize in the world. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Colin lives in Bellingen, Australia. His books with Random House Australia include HOW TO LIVE FOREVER, numerous picture books, THE FLOODS series, THE DRAGONS series, THE BIG LITTLE BOOK OF HAPPY SADNESS picture book, which has been shortlisted for the 2009 Children’s Book Council Award for Best Picture Book, and FREE TO A GOOD HOME.
