'Tippy and her baby Jellybean live in a beautiful eucalyptus forest.
'One day, they wake up and sniff the air. It's smokey, hot and windy.
'Kangaroos and wallabies are bounding. Lizards and snakes are slithering. Wombats are heading to their burrows.The cockatoos take off in an enormous flock.
'Tippy can't hop. Or run. Or fly. Instead she shelters her baby in the only way she can…
'This is the uplifting story of a mother koala who saved her baby from a bushfire, and the dedicated vets who look after them until they are healed and ready to go home.' (Publication summary)
Teachers' notes via publisher's website.
Includes Activity Sheet 1. Activity Sheet 2
At Home with Sophie Cunningham
Astrid Edwards
(interviewer),
2020
23451819
2020
single work
podcast
interview
'Sophie Cunningham is the editor behind the 2020 anthology Fire, Flood, Plague. She is also the author of six books, including City of Trees and Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy.
'Sophie is a former publisher and editor, was a co-founder of the Stella Prize and is now an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University’s Non/fiction Lab. In 2019 Sophie Cunningham was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contributions to literature.' (Production introduction)
At Home with Sophie Cunningham
Astrid Edwards
(interviewer),
2020
23451819
2020
single work
podcast
interview
'Sophie Cunningham is the editor behind the 2020 anthology Fire, Flood, Plague. She is also the author of six books, including City of Trees and Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy.
'Sophie is a former publisher and editor, was a co-founder of the Stella Prize and is now an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University’s Non/fiction Lab. In 2019 Sophie Cunningham was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contributions to literature.' (Production introduction)
