Robin Klein

Early life

Career

Personal life

Awards

• Special mention – Critici in Erba Prize at Bologna for The Giraffe in Pepperell Street
• Won – CBCA for Thing
• Won – Human Rights Literature and Awards
• Won – CBCA for Came Back to Show You I Could Fly
• Won – Canberra's Own Outstanding List: Fiction for Older Readers Award for People Might Hear You
• Dromkeen Medal
• Won – Canberra's Own Outstanding List: Fiction for Older Readers Award for Came Back to Show You I Could Fly

  Collections

• Ratbags and Rascals : Funny Stories, illustrated by Alison Lester
• Snakes and Ladders : poems about the ups and downs of life, illustrated by Ann James
• Tearaways
• All in the Blue Unclouded Weather

  Penny Pollard books

1. Penny Pollard's Diary
2. Penny Pollard's Letters
3. Penny Pollard in Print
4. Penny Pollard's Passport
5. Penny Pollard's Guide to Modern Manners
6. Penny Pollard's Scrapbook''

   ''Thing'' books

7. Thing illustrated by Alison Lester
8. Thingnapped!
9. Thing Finds a Job, illustrated by Alison Lester
10. Thing's Concert, illustrated by Alison Lester
11. Thing's Birthday, illustrated by Alison Lester
12. Thingitis, illustrated by Alison Lester

    Miscellaneous

• The Giraffe in Pepperell Street, illustrated by Gill Tomblin
• Junk Castle, illustrated by Rolf Heimann
• People Might Hear You
• Oodoolay , illustrated by Vivienne Goodman
• Brock and the Dragon, illustrated by Rodney McRae
• Hating Alison Ashley
• Thalia, the Failure, illustrated by Rhyll Plant
• The Enemies, illustrated by Noela Young
• Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left
• Serve Him Right!, illustrated by John Burge
• You're on Your Own!
• Good For Something
• Separate Places, illustrated by Astra Lacis
• Games, illustrated by Melissa Webb
• Boss of the Pool
• The Princess who Hated It, illustrated by Maire Smith
• Robin Klein's Crookbook, illustrated by Kristen Hilliard
• Don't Tell Lucy
• Birk, the Berserker, illustrated by Alison Lester
• The Lonely Hearts Club, with Max Dann
• I Shot an Arrow, illustrated by Geoff Hocking
• Christmas, illustrated by Kristen Hilliard
• Laurie Loved Me Best
• Jane's Mansion , illustrated by Melissa Webb
• The Kidnapping of Clarissa Montgomery, illustrated by Jane Wallace-Mitchell
• Against the Odds, illustrated by Bill Wood
• Honoured Guest
• Came Back to Show You I Could Fly
• The Ghost in Abigail Terrace, illustrated by Margaret Power
• Boris and Borsch, illustrated by Cathy Wilcox
• Dresses of Red and Gold
• Amy's Bed, illustrated by Coral Tulloch
• Seeing Things
• Turn Right for Zyrgon
• The Sky in Silver Lace
• The Listmaker
• Barney's Blues, illustrated by David Cox
• The Goddess, illustrated by Anne Spudvilas
• Gabby's Fair, illustrated by Michael Johnson
• Anything Happens
• Tor Atar Gu

  Adaptations

Television

• Thing
• Penny Pollard's Diary
• Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left, adapted by Michael Harvey and John Reeves

  Stage

• Hating Alison Ashley: The Play, adapted by Richard Tulloch
• Boss of the Pool, adapted by Mary Morris

  Film

• Say a Little Prayer, based on Came Back to Show You I Could Fly, adapted and directed by Richard Lowenstein
• Hating Alison Ashley, adapted for the screen by Chris Anastassiades and Christine Madafferi