Picture Books
with Bruce Whatley
- Diary of a Wombat (2003)
- Too many pears! (2003)
- Pete the Sheep (2005)
- Josephine Loves to Dance (2007)
- The Shaggy Gully Times (2007)
Junior fiction
- Tajore Arkle(1990)
- Rain Stones (1991)
- Walking the Boundaries (1993)
- Somewhere Around the Corner (1995)
- Beyond the Boundaries (1996)
- The Warrior (Young Blue Gum) (1996) illustrated by Bettina Guthridge
- A Wombat Named Bosco(1996) illustrated by Bettina Guthridge
- Summerland (1997)
- The Book of Unicorns (1997)
- Soldier on the Hill (1997)
- Hitler's Daughter (1999)
- The Secret Beach
- Lady Dance
- Missing You, Love Sara
- Valley of Gold
- Ride the Wild Wind
- Dark Wind Blowing (2001)
- Cafe on Callisto (2002)
- The White Ship (2002)
- Tom Appleby Convict Boy (2004)
- They Came on Viking Ships (2005) (published as Slave Girl in the UK and Rover in the USA )
- Macbeth and Son (2006)
- Pharaoh (2007)
- Rover (2007)
- A Rose for the Anzac Boys (2008)
- Walking the boundaries
- Children of the Valley series
- My Dog the Dinosaur
- Lessons for a Werewolf Warrior (Bk 1 of School for Heroes Series)
- Dance of the Deadly Dinosaurs (Bk 2 of School for Heroes Series)
1. Music from the sea (1993)
2. City in the sand (1993)
3. House of a hundred animals (1993)
4. The metal men (1994)
5. The tribe that sang to trees (1996)
- Phredde the Phaery series
- Wacky Family series
- In the Blood, Blood Moon and Flesh and Blood (for older readers)
- Charlie's gold (1999)
- A Waltz for Matilda (December 2009-2010)
Junior non-fiction
- The Goat Who sailed the World - the true story of the goat who sailed with Captain Cook on The Endeavour
- How to Guzzle Your Garden (2000) with Judith Rossell
- The Fascinating History of Your Lunch
- Stamp, Stomp, Whomp and Other Interesting Ways to Get Rid of Pests
- The Secret World of Wombats (2005) with Bruce Whatley
- The Dinkum History series- an eight volume history of Australia, illustrated by Peter Sheehan
Adult non-fiction
- Rocket Your Child into Reading (2004)
Adult Books
- A War for Gentlemen (2003)
- Seasons of Content (A Year in the Southern Highlands) (1998) illustrated by Gwen Harrison