When Mum’s two puggles left the burrow, everyone whispered, ‘That’s the strangest platypus ever.’

But then Spike tackles a feral cat to save his family, and everything changes.

Not only is he the bravest puggle, he’s also the luckiest.

Michelle Guzel
Michelle Guzel is an Australian children’s author, book collector and fossil enthusiast. Fascinated by stories locked in rocks, she studied geology, palaeontology, and zoology, and spent many years tracking the global travels of microscopic fossils called ostracods, in a time when people were nowhere to be seen, dinosaurs ruled, and continents were on the move.
Michelle lives in Victoria with her husband, an endearingly bossy Scottie called Millie, and a library full of stories, old and new.

Andrew Plant
Based in Melbourne, Andrew has presented writing and illustrating workshops in schools and libraries from Alice Springs to Beijing and France.
Andrew also paints murals, and designs and builds theatre sets for schools and amateur theatre groups. But his great love is creating picture books, either as author and illustrator, or teaming up with another author to bring their stories to visual life.
Andrew has just completed his eigth picture book with Ford Street, his fourth as author/illustrator – Stardiving.