AustLit

'The Quest for Kool follows the adventures of an intrepid palaeontologist echidna. Her all-time favourite animal is the Koolasuchus , and her greatest wish is to meet one of these long-extinct amphibians in the flesh. So she invents a time travel device! As she skips back through time, she comes across a host of oddball characters, including a chatty marsupial lion and some very hungry toothed seabirds. But will she ever find a Koolasuchus ?

'Combining education and excitement into one rollicking adventure, readers will relish following along with our plucky heroine as she treks through space and time in her quest to meet a Koolasuchus . Along the way they’ll learn fascinating facts about Australia’s geographic time periods and the ancient animals that inhabited them.'  (Publication summary)

'If a butterfly is just a moth in a fancy cardigan, then perhaps we should always expect more than what we see.

'This is the story of Gary Grey Moth who desperately wants to be seen and Florence Butterfly who has had enough of being noticed. What would happen if they swapped cardigans and could be the bug they each always wanted to be?

'A humorous, insightful story of identity and coming-of-age, told from the unlikely but utterly relatable perspectives of a moth and a butterfly.' (Publication summary)