Peculiar Parents

Welcome to the charmingly funny and perfectly peculiar world of Aussie animal mums and dads and their awesome kids.

Peculiar Parents explores 60 Australian native animals, focusing in particular on all things family, including their courting practices, gestation periods, births and the raising of their young.

Discover the weird and wonderful, the cute and cuddly – even the slimy and ugly! You will find parrots that play the drums and cuttlefish that can change the colour of their skin to attract a mate, as well as dancing spiders, kissing lizards, parading pelicans, plonking pobblebonks and many more.

Presented through fascinating, funny and amazing facts with an impactful family photo wall design, this book is perfect for young readers aged 6 to 12.

Age Suitability: 6-12

Stephanie Owen Reeder, illustrated by Ingrid Bartkowiak
Published July 2025
Hardback
64 Pages
300mm x 246mm
ISBN 9781922507822