![]() ![]() The illustrations also add emotional meaning and context to the words, with variations in Mothball’s facial expressions and body posture. One word or short phrases, arranged as monthly diary entries, accompanied by Whatley’s illustrations of Mothball’s amusing antics, have a format that cleverly enables tongue in cheek humour, with the brief text relaying Mothball’s single-minded viewpoint of her needs whilst the corresponding illustrations depict the problematic (sometimes destructive) outcomes of her determination to have those needs met. ![]() ![]() Whatley’s illustrations and French’s brief text tell the story of her transformation, over a year, from a frightened baby wombat being rescued, to self-satisfied comfort and eventual autonomy over her circumstances as she successfully “trains” her humans to meet her demands. This latest Mothball story takes the reader back to the beginning when she was rescued. ![]() Jackie French (text) and Bruce Whatley (illustrator), Diary of a rescued wombat: The Untold Story, Harper Collins Publishers, November 2022, 32 pp., RRP $24,99 (hbk), ISBN 9781460761823ĭiary of a Rescued Wombat commemorates the 20 th anniversary of Diary of a Wombat – the first picture book in a series about pet wombat Mothball, produced by two of Australia’s great creators of children’s literature – Jackie French and Bruce Whatley. ![]()
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