Sarah L. Thomson

Wonderful and inspiring pictures in this book!

Unfortunately, the Continent of Australia has frequent wildfire seasons. During one of these, a little wombat takes cover underground, and learns hoot survive against the wicked, burning wildfires around it.

The best part of this book is the interview with Greg Mortenson's daughter at the end. The book itself is interesting, but the writing is rather stiff and they definitely oversimplified it in their attempt to make it for kids. However, it's an inspiring story and I loved the photos and additional materials at the end. It's definitely worth using it for those materials even if you don't read it from cover to cover.

Beautiful book, but some children might find some of the images confusing or scary. I found I needed to be careful with my tone - reading it lightly and happily. If I slowed it down too much, it became a bit spooky.