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K-Gr 3—The book follows a young koala as he searches for a new home away from his mother. Though only a toddler, he is now too big for his mother's pouch. "When he tries…, his mother swats him away…Climb, little Koala. It's time to find your own way." On the next page, readers learn that a pregnant koala will ignore her joey, who must learn to fend for himself. The toddler inadvertently has a fight with another male, weathers a storm, and has a close call with a snake before finally finding a tree...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Using the format launched by the Read and Wonder series twenty-five years ago, Saxby combines a narrative story of a single koala with explanatory, expository prose that provides information about the species as a whole. Here, a pregnant koala sends her young offspring out into the world to survive on his own so she can care for her expected newborn. Vivas's light-filled watercolors provide a buffer for what some anthropomor...Log In or Sign Up to Read More