(Hodder Headline 1996, 1997, 1999)

Basil Bopp the Burper
Basil Bopp’s habit of burping is so disgusting no-one wants to know him. Even his mum and dad have run away from home to join the circus! It seems the only way a boy can get a meal is to turn to bushranging. One day an old lady sees Basil’s face on a WANTED poster. She smuggles him to her home on the Yelli-Belli Mountain where Basil discovers her simply amazing secret - a habit more atrocious than his own!

Daring Dora and the All-Girl Gang
Dora Agnes Kelly is a daredevil kid of the outback. She can out-kick a kangaroo and swear like a dozen troopers in a terrible temper. Dora’s mum and dad are so fed up they decide to send her to Miss Cecelia Dingle’s Academy for Refined Young Ladies. But at school, Dora meets Thelma Thunderbolt, Alice Donohoe and Edna Starlite and forms an all-girl gang of bushrangers. Together the girls toss their textbooks and turn to a new life filled with daring and dangerous deeds.

Jacob Fang & His Feral Family
Away out in the Gollygosh Gorge in the middle of Australia, a place not marked on any map, is a hidden waterhole. And camped by that waterhole is the deadliest, dirtiest, most despicable desperado that ever dilly-dallied in the desert! The bushranger known as Jacob Fang. Jacob Fang is is tough - so tough that one look from him makes people faint. Even his own mother! Life is very lonely until one day Jacob holds up the coach of Schoolmarm Sue. Cupid shoots his arrow and Jacob falls in love...

Dame Nellie Nickabocka, Shooting Star
Dame Nellie Nickabocka was a star of all of Great Britain’s Grandest Theatres. But that was many years ago. Now she has gained forty pounds (mostly around her bottom), and has grown a horrible hairy moustache. Deciding on a career re-charge, she migrates to the Great Continent Down Under. There she discovers that bushranging is a job ideally suited to an opera diva!

Billy Fishbone, King of the Kids
On the Buttibotti goldfields, a gang of orphan kids roam wild. Billy Fishbone, his wee sister Matilda, his always-dirty brother Nugget, and his not-so-bright brother Candle are taking a break from the busy life of bushranging. They race around the goldfields knocking over tents, locking old ladies in lavatories, gobbling up the miners’ jellybeans and swigging their ginger beer. Something has to be done! Can the strict and stern (and perfectly dressed) school teacher Archibald McBean change the gang’s wicked ways? Or can Billy turn the tables and convince McBean to join the gang?

Hairy Hannah and the Grandad Gang
Deep in the Australian bush, in the midst of a family of dingoes, lives Hannah, a red-haired wild child, running around as naked as the day she was born. Then, one night, Hannah is captured by three old bushrangers - Hercules, Smason and Cyril - the infamous Grandad Gang! Before long, the old bushrangers and Hannah are the best of friends. Soon Hannah realises that the Grandad Gang members are too deaf and dotty to look after themselves. When the gang runs out of vital supplies (toilet paper, chocolate biscuits and false teeth), she knows that something has to be done! Hannah devises a devious disguise and, dressed as Hairy Hannibal, she bravely takes over the gang’s bushranging ways.

Desert Dan, the Dunny Man
Dan Dunker, orphan, is descended from a long line of dunny makers, all with Royal Degrees. Left on the doorstep of Matron Maxine’s Home for Wretched Waifs, he spends his days scrubbing and rubbing potties from dawn to dusk, all the while dreaming of becoming a famous dunny builder. Dan’s dreams come true, but when he meets up with Bungeye Ben, his mate from the orphangage, life gets complicated. Bungeye, who has become a bad-to-the-bone bushranger, convinces Dan that dunny-building skills and bushranging ways are all the two mates need to make their fortunes...

Scrum O’Crum and the Bushranger Babies
Football genius Scrum O’Crum is big sister to a squad of squawkers - baby Glad and toddley twins Brad and Chad. Their mum Belle and aunts Hilda and Hattie are wild bushrangers and life is pretty exciting. Then disaster strikes! Belle and the aunts are captured and sent to Hold-Em Tite Prison, where the walls are so thick it takes two weeks for a horse - even a Melbourne Cup winner - to gallop around them. Scrum is determined to rescue her rellies. But breaking Belle and the aunts out is harder than she imagined!

Nick Nickers and the Great Santa Roundup
The Knickers' bushranging family - Saggy, Enormous Norm, Mum Knickers and Nick Knickers - are the baddest bunch of bushrangers that ever burgled a bank! But each year at Christmas they have one very big problem. Because they live in faraway Wackypoo, they never receive a visit from Santa Claus! Sick of missing out on Christmas presents, the Knickers set out to kidnap Santa and bring him back to Wackypoo. But when they arrive in the nearest town they spot not one, not two, but twenty Santas running around in every direction! How will the Knickers' family ever find the real Santa now?

Bushranger Bob and the Nude Olympics
When the meanest and mangiest bushrangers from all around the world gather in the town of Gunkyloo Waters for the great and fantastic Bushranging Olympics, the Olympic Committee is very worried. The Bushranging Olympics are turning out to be a complete disaster. - there are robberies in the relay and shoot-outs in the shot-put! No one has any idea how to keep the Games under control, until Bushranger Bob comes up with a brilliant plan: all the bushrangers must compete in the nude! Now the Bushranging Olympics will be a real eye-opener!

Ned the Nong and the Kelly Kids
Daisy-Belle, Elle and their little brother Bruce have always been Poor Little Nobodies. But now that they've managed to escape Matron Maxine's Home for Wretched Waifs, they plan to become Rich and Famous. And everyone knows the best way to do that is to become a fully-fledged, meaner-than-mean bushranger. With the help of their newly-found friend Ned the Nong, his almost-tame crocodile Buttercup, and Ned's best-selling book The Idiot's Guide To Bushranging, the Kelly Kids are bound to be stars in no time!