Pip the mountain pygmy-possum has forty-one seeds, and she counts them most days. Then four billion bogong moths come over the mountain in a single night — and Pip stops counting altogether. A warm, funny story about having enough, and sharing it. Ag
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Pip has forty-one seeds.
She knows, because she counts them. Most days she counts them twice.
It is early summer on the roof of Australia, and Pip the mountain pygmy-possum has a hoard she is rather proud of. Corbie the raven thinks forty-one is not very many. Marbut the broad-toothed rat thinks Pip should stop counting and go to sleep.
Then the moths arrive.
Every spring, billions of bogong moths fly a thousand kilometres to shelter in the cool boulder fields of the Australian Alps — and for the mountain pygmy-possum, who eats almost nothing else, they are the whole year's feast arriving at once. On the night they come, Pip meets Aggie, and learns that forty-one was never the number that mattered.
A warm, funny story about having enough and sharing it — 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 bogong moth migration, and talking points for after the story.
Real animals. Real science. Real heart.
