How many Australian animals do you know? In this boat, rushing from an improbable bush tidal wave in a book recommended by my nephew, you'll find a cockatoo, a cookaburra, an echidna, an emu, a galah, a kangaroo, two koalas, a platypus, four possums, a numbat and a wombat.The story appears in The Great Possum Creek Disasters Omnibus by Dan Vallely and Yvonne Perrin, where these friendly animals face and overcome The Great Possum Creek Bushfire, The Great Possum Creek Earthquake and The Great Possum Creek Drought, as well as this, Possum Creek's Big Flood.
In case you're wondering, the flood wipes out the little town of Possum Creek, leaving nothing but a bathtub in a tree! But the animals come together to rebuild the town and
Now the tourists flocked to see
That old bathtub in the tree
And to marvel as a platypus in rhyme
Recalls that fateful day
When the town was washed away
And that tidal wave gets bigger every time!
