Pip, a mountain pygmy-possum, wakes from seven months asleep under the snow to find her whole mountain turned white. A gentle, funny story about patience and the first morning of a new year. Ages 4-8.
USD $4.99
Pip has been asleep for seven months. Under the rocks, under the snow, on the roof of Australia.
Then a drop of water lands on her nose.
Pip is a mountain pygmy-possum - the only Australian marsupial that truly hibernates, and one of the most endangered animals in the country. When she climbs up out of the boulder field for the first time since autumn, she finds her whole mountain has turned white. No berries. No seeds. Nothing at all.
So Pip waits. She waits sitting up. She waits lying down. She waits upside down. She waits for a very long time. It is eleven minutes.
A gentle, funny story about patience, hunger and the first morning of a new year - told in short lines for children aged four to eight, and illustrated in full-page watercolour. Includes A Note for Grown-Ups: the real science of the mountain pygmy-possum, and talking points for after the story.
Real animals. Real science. Real heart.
