Diary of a Wombat - This is the book that has scooped just about every award around and galloped across the world, making it one of Australia's most awarded and bestselling picture books ever...
It's the story of a wombat. She eats. She sleeps. she scratches. And she is training humans to become better pets.....
The wombat is based on a real wombat, who still lives under Jackie's bedroom. Diary of a Wombat shows kids that sometimes being stubborn and stroppy can get you your carrots...and that two people (or two species) can have a very different vision of the world!

The Secret World of Wombats - The book is about 30 years of living with wombats and studying them. All the dirt on wombats you ever wanted to know: why wombats bite each others bums, how to speak wombat, and how you can get close to a wild wombat, plus tales of Bad Bart the Biter and Moriarty and Mothball and many of the others.With glorious illustrations by Bruce Whatley.

Pete the Sheep - Sean is a shearer and instead of a sheepdog to help him, he's got a sheep sheep - Pete. After being rejected by the other shearers and their dogs, Sean and Pete set up a sheep salon in town. Sheep from everywhere arrive to have their wool shorn in the latest style and even the shearers' dogs end up arriving for a cut in order to look gorgeous.
The Story Behind Pete the Sheep
Pete was a black sheep called Dunmore, who herded all our other sheep into the shearing shed in return for a milk arrowroot biscuit and a scratch behind his horns. (He'd go all dribbly and weak at the knees when you scratched him).
Back in the drought in the late 70's, when there was no grass for sheep to eat and no money to buy hay for them, a friend and I came up with a cunning plan. We'd give a sheep to every preschool in Australia! And then we'd make a living going around each preschool giving the sheep really cool hair cuts...
Luckily it rained before we put our plan into action. But many year later, this is where the story of 'the sheep with a plan' came from.

Josephine Wants to Dance - From the award-winning duo of Diary of a Wombat comes another hilarious tale of a bush animal you'll never forget.
Josephine is a kangaroo - who loves to dance ballet. Her little brother, Joey, tells her that kangaroos don't dance, they hop - but Josephine continues to point her toes and leap through the air.
When a ballet troupe comes to town and both the lead ballerina and understudy are injured, Josephine's talents are called upon to help save the day. Can she do it and, more importantly, does it matter that she's a kangaroo?
A very funny picture book that looks at the importance of believing in yourself and realising your dreams.
Ages 4- 9
ps There are cameos for Mothball wombat too, and the sheep and shearers from Pete the Sheep.
Josephine is based on a real kangaroo, just as Pete and Diary of a Wombat were based on real animals too.
Josephine is based on a roo called Fuchsia and a wallaby called Rosie. Fuchsia was the kangaroo that danced through our lives when my son was small. They'd dance to ' Newspaper Mama!', and then we'd go for a walk. Well, Edward and I would walk, and Fuchsia would dance around us....
Rosie shares our garden with Mothball wombat. Mothball eats the carrots, and Rosie eats the roses. As I wrote Josephine wants to Dance I'd watch Rosie delicately pick a rose with her teeth, then pass it down to her baby. And if you'd visited our farm this morning you'd have seen a small brown wallaby happily bounding through the apple trees with a rose in her mouth.
Josephine is about a kangaroo who loves to dance, but it also teaches kids to dream...and to keep working for their dream as well.

The Shaggy Gully Times -

 STOP PRESS!
Our favourite furry friends Mothball Wombat, Pete the Sheep and Josephine the Dancing Kangaroo are back this month, and they’re on the front page of The Shaggy Gully Times!
Be the first to read the breaking news as it happens in The Shaggy Gully Times. This is the punniest book you’ll ever read, all about the small bush town of Shaggy Gully, home to many animals such as Celebrity Ballerina Josephine, Pete the Sheep, who runs Shaun’s Sheep Salon, as well as Mothball Wombat, the editor of the weekly newspaper, who has a bit of trouble with her spilling, sorry, spelling. 

This week’s edition is jam packed with news!

News flash! The Shaggy Gully Bushfire Brigade and the rest of the community have come together to rescue the miserable animals from Mr Nasty’s Goo! (Correction, zoo).

Police Report! Gunna the Graffiti Goanna has struck again! And who is the mysterious blonde up the three bear’s gum tree?

And in other news… how does Emily Emu save the day? Can poor Bluey Spider ever find true love? Will the visiting Kiwis thrash the Wallabies in the Match of the year?
Read all about it! In The Shaggy Gully Times!

The Shaggy Gully Times!
Amazing Discovery of the Punniest Newspaper You've Ever Read!
It all started a few years ago when Bruce and Jackie were down in Shaggy Gully, following up the rumour that internationally acclaimed prima ballerina Josephine was really a kangaroo.(A likely tail/tale!) Jackie was just s/boiling the d/billy by Shaggy Gully Creek when Bruce pulled over a b/log for them to sit on..
…and there under the log was an old tin can, tied up with baling twine. And inside the can was a yellowed newspaper …. the last known copy of the once bestselling Snaggy Gully Times.
Jackie brushed off the spiders and Bruce deciphered all the mouldy bits- well, mostly, anyhow. And now everyone can read all about it!  
Will Sm/ellie the elephant and her friends escape Mr Nasty's Big City Poo? How about the mysterious blonde up the three bears b/gum tree? And what terrible accident happened to the Shabby Guppy Swimming Drool? Find All the News That's Fit to Stink, in this celebration of that old fashioned country newspaper, the Daggy Gunky Limes!