What is this invention all the other animals are talking about? Koala decides to find out ... but will he ever be the same again? What a surspise! What a laugh!
A picture story-book for children aged 2-8.
Story by Peter Taylor Illustrated by Gail Breese Published by Trafford
... And what a great job Gail has done!
Here are some pages from it ...
I hope you'll enjoy the YouTube video of me reading the story...
...and that you'll buy the book. As you can see, the characters are Australian animals and birds - particularly Kangaroo, Koala, Kookaburra, Dingo and Owl - and others are illustrated: Goanna, Galah, Northern Blossom-Bat, and Pigmy-Possum.
A slightly different version is available from Writers Exchange as a downloadable ebook and on CD. (Click here for details.)
Being a humourous story, there are some things that everyone will know are not true ...like, kangaroos don't live in their own houses with a door-bell. However, although some of the animals have been given smiley or grumpy expressions, Gail Breese's pictures are quite accurate illustrations, even if not always perfectly drawn to scale.
So, to enable you to tell fact from fiction, here is some true information about the Australian wildlife shown in the book. (I hope everyone will find the facts interesting, but they will also be useful to teachers if the book is read in schools.)
