Ivan Smith

An eco-fable about our response to the (at the time of writing) looming environmental catastrophe. The responses of different australian animals to a wildfire that sweeps across the bush can be read as parables of how we might respond to man-made environmental threats such as pollution: turn and face them, laconically ignore them, or carry on and hope for the best. Not a children's book, per se, and will probably not be enjoyed by readers of the Muddleheaded Wombat or Angela McAllister's show more wombat books. show less

Good look into what the world was like in the mid-sixties. Fascinating slice of history.