Every animal in the Australian bush is good at something. Everyone that is, except the little brown bushrat.

He can't jump or run very fast. He isn't even very pretty, whatever his mum says.

But when a bushfire begins to spread, who will brave enough to save the day?

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2003 by Pan Macmillan .

Daisy Meadows is the pseudonym used by Working Partners, the creators of Rainbow Magic and other successful series like Animal Ark. Georgie Ripper is a talented young artist who has won the Macmillan prize for illustration.