Martin Oliver (author)

Martin Oliver is a British author of children's books. He recently gained notoriety online via the Huffington Post, after an 8-year-old girl had his books "Girls Only: How to Survive Anything" and "Boys Only: How to Survive Anything" pulled from bookstore shelves for claims of sexism.[1]

Bibliography

Usborne Puzzle Adventure series
  • The Intergalactic Bus Trip (1987)
  • Agent Arthur's Jungle Journey (1988)
  • Search for the Sunken City (1989)
  • Agent Arthur's Arctic Adventure (1990)
  • Agent Arthur on the Stormy Seas (1991)
  • Agent Arthur's Desert Challenge (1994)
  • Agent Arthur's Mountain Mission (1996)

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles series
  • Indiana Jones Puzzle Adventure Storybooks: II (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles) (1994)

Usborne Whodunnit series
  • The Deckchair Detectives (1995)

Young Hippo Adventure series
  • Attack of the Vampirates (1995)
  • Revenge of the Vampirates (1995)

Hippo Ghost series
  • The House at the End of Ferry Road (1995)

You Should See My... series
  • You Should See My Dog (1995)
  • You Should See My Cat (1996)
  • You Should See My Mum (1998)

What's Wrong Mum? series
  • Seaside (1997)
  • Garden (1998)
  • Shopping (1998)
  • The Fletcher Family's Picnic Puzzle (1997)

Sparks series
  • The Winner's Wreath: Ancient Greek Olympics (1999)

The Knowledge series
  • Dead Dinosaurs (2000)
  • Groovy Movies (2004)

Spilling the Beans on series
  • Spilling the Beans on Making It in the Movies (2001, ISBN 1-84236-013-2)
  • Spilling the Beans on Blackbeard (2000, ISBN 1-902947-40-1)

Other books
  • McKricken's Christmas (1991)
  • Giggle Mirths of Waggle-down Derry (1991)
  • "Flintstone's" Mystery Puzzle Book (1994)
  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1999)
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gollark: They "block internet access" by stopping the browsers opening. However, we can access python for obvious reasons, and python has built-in HTTP libraries.
gollark: Talking of great exam systems, I had a computer science exam today at school, and they do them partly on computers (nobody wants to write code on paper).

References
  1. "8-Year Old Gets Sexist 'How To Survive Almost Anything' Books Pulled Off The Shelf". 3 October 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2013.


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