'This Nature Storybook follow-up to the award-winning Desert Lake is a stunningly illustrated and extraordinary story of the yearly weather cycle and attendant changing wildlife of Kakadu National Park, from the Dry to the Wet to the Dry again.
'In the tropical wetlands and escarpments of Kakadu National Park, the seasons move from dry to wet to dry again. Those seasons have shaped the astonishing variety of plants, animals, birds, insects ... migratory birds by the thousands, grasshoppers and owls, lizards and turtles, fruit bats and spear grass. And, gliding past them all in the rivers and waterholes, the long, sinuous shapes of crocodiles ...'
(Source: publisher's blurb)
'It is the Dry.
'Over the plains and cliffs and rivers of Kakadu, in northern Australia, the air hangs heavy.
'It's hot and very humid.
'So begins the narrative of a journey into Kakadu in which readers are transported to Australia's largest national park and immersed in the cycle of seasons from the Dry, to the Wet and back again...' (Introduction)
'It is the Dry.
'Over the plains and cliffs and rivers of Kakadu, in northern Australia, the air hangs heavy.
'It's hot and very humid.
'So begins the narrative of a journey into Kakadu in which readers are transported to Australia's largest national park and immersed in the cycle of seasons from the Dry, to the Wet and back again...' (Introduction)
