She is the third child of Peter Coleman and Verna Susannah Coleman. Three of her books have been adapted for theatre: The Red Shoe, The Terrible Plop and Too Many Elephants in This House. In 2019 a study room at Marrickville Library was named in honour of her novel The Blue Cat.
In 2018 the National Library of Australia published Midnight at the Library, illustrated by Ron Brooks, to celebrate the Library's 50-year anniversary. In 2014, the annual Christmas Windows of the department store David Jones were based on her story Reindeer's Christmas Surprise, and her book Too Many Elephants In this House, illustrated by Andrew Joyner, was chosen for the National Simultaneous Storytime. Her novel The Red Shoe is included in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up and is one of 200 significant works of Australian literature in the Copyright Agency's Reading Australia program. In the United States and Canada The Word Spy is published under the title The Word Snoop. These books have won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award and the Junior Judges' Award. She has also written three non-fiction "Word Spy" books for children, illustrated by Tohby Riddle, about language, grammar and etymology. She is the author of over 61 illustrated books and novels, which have been translated into 14 languages.
She was appointed the Australian Children's Laureate for 2020–2021. She has won nine national literary prizes, including five New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, more than any other writer in the Awards' 30-year history. Ursula Dubosarsky (born Ursula Coleman 1961 in Sydney) is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults, whose work is characterised by a child's vision and comic voice of both clarity and ambiguity.
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