Victoria, a young kangaroo, is sick and tired of sharing her mother's pouch with umpteen other items: cacti, a goldfish in a bowl, keys, coathangers, a book...the list is endless! So she takes drastic action by hopping around her friends asking if she can live with them. She tries living in a tree with the Koala family, in a burrow with the Rabbit family, and in a nest with the Goose family before realising there's no place like home. But when she bounces back to her mother, she's grown too big for the pouch - and her place has been taken by a baby brother! All three kangaroos hop off happily into the sunset together.

 

This book is part of a book series called Viking Kestrel Picture .

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2002 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Carolyn Sloan began her writing career as a journalist and went on to write fiction and non-fiction for children. She lived in India for many years and now lives in Surrey. Mary Murphy is a young and very popular illustrator. She is perhaps best known for the character Little Penguin who appears in her Egmont titles. This is her first book for Puffin. Mary lives in County Galway. Mary Murphy has published several children's books, including I LIKE IT WHEN, which won the Parenting Magazine Gold Medal. She lives in Dublin, Ireland.