This picture storybook with brief rhyming text and humorous full colour illustrations shows several animals climbing into a rowing dinghy one after another as the boat gets lower and lower in the water. The last in is a mouse, and that is just too much. The text does not explicitly tell the reader that they all sank the boat. Other titles in the series, Feet , Mouths and Eyes , have a similar format. This counting book also teaches a few things about how an orb web spider lives.
Illustrations are carefully constructed collages.
The mother of Sebastian, a wombat, was killed by a car when he was about four months old and still in her pouch. He was hand-reared by the author who describes in this picture book his development and needs until he was able to return to the wild. Delightful, realistic full colour illustrations by Kerry Argent complement the text. Full page photographs by Fiona Pragoff of children undertaking a variety of activites with everyday objects are accompanied by simple statements and questions to set them thinking about the science around us. An apple is dropped into water, cut in half and allowed to go brown, used for printing, cooked and its seeds planted.