In 1989, he won his second ARIA for Best Children's Album, for "Newspaper Mama" (1988). "The Canberra Times" correspondent described him as "the master of loony tunes for kids"; with this album having "a selection of original songs with the title track accompanied by an imaginative video." His next album, "Chopsticks" (September 1989), was also nominated in that category in the following year but it did not win. "Peter Combe's Christmas Album" (November 1990) reached the ARIA Albums Chart top 50. His first live album, "The Absolutely Very Best of Peter Combe (So Far) Recorded in Concert" (1991), won his third trophy for Best Children's Album, in 1992.