Odo Hirsch is the pen name

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 of David Kausman, an Australia

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n author of children's books. He was born in Melbourne, where he trained to be a doctor, but moved to London

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, where he currently lives.

After working as a doctor in both Melbourne and London, he joined Amnesty International

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, where he reported on torture victims and examined hospital conditions in Eastern Europe

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. After doing a masters degree in political thought at Cambridge University, he joined McKinsey Consulting in 1997. This was when his first novel for children, Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman, was published. His other books include Bartlett and the Ice Voyage, which won the Blue Peter Book Award. His novels have been shortlisted many times for the Children's Book Council of Australia

Children's Book Council of Australia

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 Awards.

Bartlett series

• Bartlett and the Ice Voyage (1998)
• Bartlett and the City of Flames (1999)
• Bartlett and the Forest of Plenty (2001)
• Bartlett and the Island of Kings (2003)

Hazel Green series

• Hazel Green (1999)
• Something's Fishy Hazel Green (2000)
• Have Courage, Hazel Green! (2001)
• Think Smart Hazel Green (2003)

Frankel Mouse series

• Frankel Mouse (2000)
• Frankel Mouse and the Bestish Lair (2002)

Will Buster series

• Will Buster and the Gelmet Helmet (2004)
• Will Buster and the Carrier's Flash (2006)
• Will Buster and the Crucible Choice (2007)

Other books

• Antonio S. and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman (1997), also published as Antonio S. and the Mysterious Theodore Guzman, and as Antonio S. and the Secret Room
• Yoss (2001)
• Pincus Corbett's strange adventure (2002)
• Slaughterboy (2005)
• The Book of Changing Things (and other oddibosities) (2005)
• Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp (2007)
• Darius Bell and the Glitter Pool (2009)

External links

• Biography at Bloomsbury