Big Aussie Animal Bush Bash by Brentos
Big Aussie Animal Bush Bash is a clever and highly engaging search and find book. In the trademark style and pastel colours of previous books by Brentos including Australian Animals From Beach to Bush, Wild Australia: Our Marine and National Parks and Australia From Dawn to Dusk, this new release is both an amazing book for children to learn the collective nouns for various Australian animals while they are searching each page, and for adults to appreciate the headline acts at the music festival.
Snags, the coolest koala is organising a bush doof. He sends out invitations for all of the animals to bring items to get the festival going. These include a bask of crocodiles bringing the drinks, colony of koalas bringing the rides, troop of kangaroos bringing the bass, wisdom of wombats bringing the doof sticks, mob of emus bringing the snacks, pack of devils bringing the security and a parliament of owls bringing the sparkles.
Some of the activities for the festival goers include eski racing, wave pool, floatie hire and thong toss There is so much humour throughout and young readers will be quick to point things out - the kangaroos lined up outside the dunny, the octopus playing the drums for the band Sticky Flippers, the Slippery Snag slide, the chill tent. The twist on famous musicians names will provide a treat for adults of all ages - Tkay Magpaidza, Hilltop Woods, Midnight Owl, John Furrnham, Crowded Pouch, Natalie Imbrolga, RooDoo Gurus, Missy Hoppins, Kylie Minnow, Silverbear, Savage Gumnut and Jimmy Barnowl lead singer for Cold Lizzel.
On each gloriously busy double page spread is eight items for readers to find. As with all search and finds it is not always easy. But it does provide an opportunity to really delve deeply into what has been intricately drawn on each page. Thoughtfully provided also is a QR code for a custom playlist with ‘You’re the Voice’ first off the rank.
This entertaining book would be an excellent gift for children and adults.
Themes: Music, Music Festival, Australian Animals, Australian Bush, Humour, Collective Nouns, Search & Find.
Kathryn Beilby