It is not just another small book about Australia's cute, cuddly marsupials. It gives information at three levels of content and linguistic difficulty about the evolutionary history, the similarities and differences between the two modern animals and a few of the environmental problems they face.
It is accompanied by a reader and a sound CD.
This workbook of language and comprehension exercises matching the three levels of the reading texts as well as notes for teachers, additional background information and stimulus pictures and suggested answers to the exercises. There is also a sound CD containing the three texts read slowly and clearly by Lyndal Reid. As usual, the CD also contains a Koala & Wombat song.