AustLit

'Maralinga spins an alternative history from the 1956 British nuclear tests in the Woomera. Three hundred years later a ruined, irradiated, post-apocalyptic Australia is a place where monsters are real and one girl, the last of an isolated and dying community in Melbourne's south, launches on a desperate journey to find sanctuary and a mythical inland sea.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Some of the animals are deeply unhappy and the zoo keepers can’t figure it out. The spider monkey, for example, won’t spin his web or eat his flies and he seems scared of the other spiders. It’s bewildering!

'A picture book about confused animals, even more confused zookeepers and one very smart kid.' (Publication summary)