Children’s Books
Nicolas Brasch has written more than 400 books for children. He is Australia’s leading writer of educational books for primary school children, with many of his books and series winning Australian Educational Publishing awards. He has also written trade titles and books for older children. His books have been published by leading global publishers and translated into French, German, Swedish, Thai and even Gaelic.
Publications
- Federation: Notable People and Events
- The Fight for Indigenous Rights
- Legends of League series
- Macmillan English Writing Prompts Box
- Australia’s Olympic Story: Going for (Green and) Gold
- Map Smart series
- Our Democracy series
- The Science Behind series
- The Technology Behind series
- Music series
- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Australian Sports
- Exploring & Mapping Australia series
- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Famous and Infamous Australians
- Australian Government Leaders series
- Talk Abut Books series
- Eyewitness to Australian History series
- Australia’s Convict Past series
- Hard Labour series
- Story of Migration to Australia series
- Government in Australia series
- Australia’s Young Achievers series
- Explorers of Australia series
- Eyewitness Nature’s Forces
- Behind the News series
- Colourful Creatures
- Pocket Worlds: Fabulous
- Pocket Worlds: Wild Water
- Pocket Worlds: No Limits
- The Pacific Ring of Fire
- Dancing Across the World
- What Happened in Australia? series
- What Happened in the World? series
- Commonwealth Games series
- Australia Focus: Land Use
- Australia Focus: Weather
- The Arts in Australia series
- Emergency Services in Australia series
- Australia’s Neighbours: Pacific Islands
- Australia’s Neighbours: Antarctica
- Communications in Australia series
- Australia’s Gold Medallists series
- A–Z of Great Australian Sports Stars series
- Great Australian Women series
- Great Australian Women of the 20th Century (CD-ROM), author and editor, Heinemann Library, 1998 (for secondary school market)
- Drugs in Australia series
- Spoken Texts series
- Australian Landmarks
- Students’ Research Guide
- Legends of Australia
- Fiona Coote
- Tan Le
- Extreme Bravery: Australia’s Victoria Cross Winners
- Signposts and Milestones series
- Mandela: Hero of his People
- Tiger: No Second Best
- First Lady of the Skies
- Fast Forward series
- Nelson Literacy Directions series
- Big Books series (Resources, Animals, Government & Citizenship, Media & Entertainment, Sport, History, Transport, Natural Disasters)
- Amazing Nature
- The Unhistory of Rome
- Just Messing About
- Appearances Can Fool You
- Twins
- A Moving World
- Art Chat
- Sky Watching
- The Stage is Set
- On the Street
- Junk Sculpture
- Working with Wood
- The Science Factor series
- Closing the Word series
- Reading for Comprehension series
- Digital Reading series
- Conquering the Sky
- Da Vinci Story
- Earth’s Place in Space
- Ice Trap
- Industry and Invention
- Money Sense
- Robots of the Future
- Triumphs of Engineering
- Creating Cool Gadgets
- Great Moments in History
- How Animals Defend Themselves
- Renewable Energy
- Super Science Experiments
- Why Earthquakes Occur
- For Valour: Australia’s Victoria Cross Winners
- The Heroes of the Kokoda Track
- Gallipoli: Reckless Valour
- So you want to be Prime Minister?
- 298s – I Love Money
- 298s – My Beanstalk
- Go Facts History series
- Go Facts Geography series
- Go Facts Natural Resources series
- Go Facts Wonders series
- Go Facts Science series
- 1001 Even More Cool Jokes
- 101 Cool Ways for Kids to Make Money
- 1001 Cool Insults
- More Adult Only Jokes
- Crazy Book of … series
- Windows on Literacy series
- Henry Ford and the Car
- Why is it So? series
- Backyard Science series
- The fastest in the World
- Usain Bolt
- Sport in Australia
- Australia’s Popular Places
