2005, hb, 190x240mm, 32pp,
RRP $19.95 incl. GST

ISBN (10)
0 85575 494 X

ISBN (13)
978 0 85575 494 5

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The Little Platypus and the Fire Spirit
KOORANG, Mundara

2006 Australian Reader's Challenge reading list

Availability: Print

The duck-billed, web-footed, paddle-tailed, fur-covered platypus didn’t used to look so peculiar.

The platypus used to play in the bush, chasing bugs and butterflies, nipping the emus’ long, skinny legs, and running up and down the tails of the kangaroos.

One day the little platypus watched a yellow duck playing at a billabong. The little platypus longed to be a little duck with yellow feathers, bobbing and paddling around in circles on the water.

Learn how the little platypus, with the help of a fire spirit, became the curious creature  we know today, that is found diving, swimming and floating in the billabongs and rivers of the bush.

A picture book for new and young readers.