Captain Kangaroo saves the day by Mandy Foot
Lothian, 2014. ISBN 9780734415141
(Ages 3-9) Highly recommended. It's been a long, hot, dry summer in
the Aussie outback - and today its bushfire weather.
Captain Kangaroo knows what to do though, so he and the fireys
spring into action to stop this fire from becoming a 'wopper'. Even
with the local fireys, wombat, koala, emu, camel and possum
assisting this fire may still not be put out. It takes the one
person who taught Captain Kangaroo all he knows to come to help get
this fire totally under control.
Captain Kangaroo saves the day is the latest instalment in
the wonderful Captain Kangaroo series. Like all of the
Captain Kangaroo books it is bursting with Australiana sayings,
catch phrases and animals and is set completely in the Australian
outback. Mandy Foot's illustrations wonderfully capture the colours
of the Australian outback while also portraying the harsh
destructiveness of a bushfire. Mandy also manages to create
beautiful scenes on every page that have more going on than first
meet the eye which lend to some wonderful discussion and early
learners comprehension questioning.
Captain Kangaroo saves the day is a beautiful book that
shares its mantle with other great Australian picture books such as
Possum Magic, Edward the Emu, Bilby and the
Bushfire and Mulga Bill's Bicycle with its wonderful
Australian colloquialisms.
Steve Whitehead