In this classic Australian picture book, a dingo catches a wombat and wants to cook him in a stew. But all the other bush animals have a plan to save their friend. They trick the dingo into using mud, feathers, flies, bugs and gumnuts in his wombat stew, and the result is a stew the dingo will never forget!

While looking for his mother, Wombat meets many animals that are not impressed with his talent for digging and thinking. But when a fire approaches, they change their minds. Masterful watercolors highlight this memorable new character.

Enjoy this colour-illustrated childrens book as you read The Adventures of Harry Wombat and Friends and discover the world of Australian native animals. Harry Wombat is a very young, very adventurous, wombat who finds himself lost and far from home after he is coaxed into a car by two small children. Once he escapes the car, he discovers he still has to escape from the claws of an eagle and the jaws of a fox. Perhaps, with some help from a friendly frilled-neck lizard named Brodie, a huge native bird named Mr. Emu (who cannot fl y), and a kangaroo named Ellie Roo, Harry Wombat might just survive his adventures in the Australian desert and make his way home to his worried mother.

During the fire season in Australia, a wombat allows its underground shelter to become a place of refuge for other vulnerable animals in need. Discusses Australia's devastating 2019-2020 fire season, in which many animals lost their lives or their habitats.

Whitley Award winner for Best Popular Zoology Book. With his usual brilliance James Woodford explores the wombat's bizarre evolutionary history and perilous future. This is popular science writing at its best: an irresistible subject in the hands of an irrepressible author.

In the Australian bush, a baby wombat gets separated from her mother and rescued by humans. When she is returned to the wild, she finds her mother and makes friends with the other animals in forest. When the fire dragon comes, Blossom the wombat takes her friends down into the warren to save their lives.

What's the best way to scratch a wombat? In this cross between memoir and natural history, French shares her often hilarious adventures with her wombat neighbors in Australia and describes their physiology, history, and habits. Illustrations.

SUMMARY: Willie Wombat and Bandicoot have an arguement but, make-up and remain best friends.