'Taking a character out of
Blinky Bill, The Quaint Little Australian (1933), Angelina Wallaby, [Dorothy Wall] added Chum, a small boy, and Flip, the "biggest and bulgiest frog in the bush", and Um-Pig to create
Stout Fellows [...] The four friends travel through the bush to Long Ago to find Chum's home' (
Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature 437).