Koala Koala

ANIMALS

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Imagine living in Australia with its hot climate, beautiful forests, high mountains, swamps, and deserts.

Koala spends his days with his mother in the eucalyptus tree—eating, sleeping, and watching the world below.

What strange creatures he sees around him! He spots snakes that slither and sometimes climb his tree, brightly coloured parrots that squawk and share his branch, plus kangaroos, wallabies, dingoes, wombats, and flightless emus that race across the land. He even glimpses platypuses, echidnas, flying foxes, crocodiles, and desert-roaming camels.

Born in Arbroath, Scotland, Joan Burnett spent her early childhood in Cambridgeshire. She began her working life as a secretary but ultimately fulfilled her ambition to become a primary school teacher. Her teaching career spanned over 30 years. And took her from Bedford to West Sussex, where she taught in four schools, ultimately becoming head teacher of a rural primary school. Joan experienced many changes during this time, from no national curriculum and limited resources to Ofsted inspections, interactive whiteboards, computers and a wonderful selection of fiction and non-fiction books. One thing which always remained constant was Joan’s love of literature. Story time was always an important part of the day and an inspiration for cross-curriculum work, inspiring drama and creative experiences. Joan now lives in a village in the South Downs of West Sussex and enjoys gardening, keeping bees, painting and writing.