Bobbie Dazzler - Hardcover

Bobbie Dazzler celebrates children's small achievements and the value of friendship, while introducing the Australian landscape, with images of native vegetation such as bottlebrushes, eucalyptus, banksias and kangaroo paw.

"It's been many years since I've hopped, jumped and skipped - but through my small granddaughter, Olivia, I'm rediscovering these joys. The idea for Bobbie Dazzler came from observing Olivia's pleasure as she mastered balancing, doing somersaults and attempting cartwheels. The splits defeated her, however, so I wrote a story for her instead." - Margaret Wild

"When I was doing Bobbie I trotted off a few times to Taronga Zoo here in Sydney and sat down with my sketch book in the native animals' enclosure. There were a few magnificent big red kangaroos, but the ones I was really taken with were the little red-necked wallabies, so that's who Bobbie ended up being." - Janine Dawson