Author: James Woodford Publisher: Text Publishing ISBN: 1921834900 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 233
Book Description
Whitley Award winner for Best Popular Zoology Book. With his usual brilliance James Woodford explores the wombat's bizarre evolutionary history and perilous future. This is popular science writing at its best: an irresistible subject in the hands of an irrepressible author.
Author: Bruce Whatley Publisher: HarperCollins Australia ISBN: 0730444821 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 24
Book Description
Companion non fiction title for the bestselling Diary of a Wombat that explores everything you've ever wanted to know about wombats. Jackie French loves wombats. She's been living with and studying them for over 30 years, and they have been featured characters in many of her books. Now her beloved wombats take center stage, as Jackie reveals everything you have ever wanted to know about them - from their zoological history to habitation and habits. Jackie also shares some personal stories from her experiences living with these wonderful creatures. There are also wombat Q&As and wombat jokes sprinkled throughout the book.
Author: Jackie French Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618868643 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 108
Book Description
What's the best way to scratch a wombat? In this cross between memoir and natural history, French shares her often hilarious adventures with her wombat neighbors in Australia and describes their physiology, history, and habits. Illustrations.
Author: Elizabeth Honey Publisher: Allen & Unwin ISBN: 1743437145 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 148
Book Description
The warts-and-all story of a Grade 6 school camp (including the funny, rude and naughty bits), featuring a loner called Jonah and an explosive teacher called The Bomb.
Author: Jackie French Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0007351755 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 34
Book Description
Cuter, stroppier and even more determined than her mother - meet Mothball's baby. This baby wombat and her mum are finding it hard to fit into their home. When setting out to dig a new, bigger hole with room for them both, Shaggy Gully's newest resident gets some help from a friend, causes more mayhem than Mothball ever did.
Author: Suzanne Selfors Publisher: Imprint ISBN: 1250220335 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
For fans of the Warrior series and Redwall, Braver: A Wombat’s Tale is an exciting new fantasy adventure novel for young readers from Suzanne Selfors and Walker Ranson. A 2021 Charlotte Huck Recommended Book Lola Budge isn’t your average bare-nosed wombat. While her parents and neighbors in the Northern Forest want nothing more than peace and quiet, Lola loves to talk. Bored by the quiet routine of wombat life, Lola desperately wants something, anything, interesting to happen. But when Lola follows the terrifying sound of unfamiliar screeching, she discovers a predator who has been kept in exile for many generations. And this creature has captured the peaceful wombats and carted them away—including Lola’s parents. To save her family, Lola will need help from the Queen of Tassie Island herself. But the road to the golden city of Dore is long and treacherous for a young wombat, especially with predators on the loose. To save the ones she loves, Lola will have to brave infested swamps, rushing rivers, and soaring heights, while encountering all sorts of strange critters, both friend and foe. At times exciting, at times heart-warming, this is the story of a wombat who is much braver than anyone imagined. An Imprint Book
Author: Sarah L. Thomson Publisher: ISBN: 9780316707060 Category : Animals Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
During the fire season in Australia, a wombat allows its underground shelter to become a place of refuge for other vulnerable animals in need. Discusses Australia's devastating 2019-2020 fire season, in which many animals lost their lives or their habitats.
Author: James Woodford Publisher: Text Publishing ISBN: 1921834935 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
Real Dirt is the true story of a sea-change, the life that led there, and what you have to do to get where you want to be. When James Woodford realised the greasy pole of big-city ambition was not for him, he focused on rediscovering the environmentalist within, and getting his family out of the city. How hard could it be?
Author: Barbara Triggs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
Book Description
Presents, in text and photographs, the habits, life cycle, and natural environment of the Australian wombat, one of the world's largest burrowing animals.
Author: Andrew Baker Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING ISBN: 1486305164 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
Most living carnivorous marsupials lead a secretive and solitary existence. From tiny insect eaters to the formidable Tasmanian Devil, Secret Lives of Carnivorous Marsupials offers rare insight into the history and habits of these creatures – from their discovery by intrepid explorers and scientists to their unique life cycles and incredible ways of hunting prey. Secret Lives of Carnivorous Marsupials provides a guide to the world’s 136 living species of carnivorous marsupials and is packed with never-before-seen photos. Biogeography, relationships and conservation are also covered in detail. Readers are taken on a journey through remote Australia, the Americas and dark, mysterious New Guinea – some of the last truly wild places on Earth. The book describes frenzied mating sessions, minuscule mammals that catch prey far larger than themselves, and extinct predators including marsupial lions, wolves and even sabre-toothed kangaroos.
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