Rich and beautiful, Gary Crew’s text is redolent with the sounds and colours of the Australian bush. This picture book for older children is an ode and an obituary to the indigenous landscape, much of which was destroyed by white colonists.
Ignorance and selfishness can destroy the things we love and value most – the child whose parents don’t value his differences, the beauty of wild nature – and this story offers the reader a metaphor for the greater destruction of the environment through thoughtless acts.

Susy Boyer is a freelance illustrator and painter living and working on Queensland’s Gold Coast. She loves working in publishing, especially children’s books and has illustrated more than 80 titles, from picture books to readers for the educational market.
Susy majored in Illustration and Design, and after graduating spent five years working as a graphic designer for magazine publishers in Sydney and London. After some wonderful years as the Assistant Art Director of The Australian Women’s Weekly, a yearning for more drawing time led her to change to a full-time career in illustration which has continued for over 20 years.

Dr Gary Crew is one of Australia’s most awarded authors for youth, winning the Australian Children’s Book of the Year four times; twice for his novels, twice for his illustrated books.
Gary has previously published Finding Home, In the Beech Forest and Voicing the Dead with Ford Street.
He is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Queensland.