Title: Town possum, outback possum
Description: An adaptation of Aesop's fable The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, with an Australian twist. Outback possum loves to chew leaves and watch sunsets. Town possum loves adventure and fun. When outback possum visits his cousin in town, and experiences a bit of high adventure and a few close shaves, he decides that the quiet life is the life for him. He heads happily home to his tree in the outback where life will be quite and peaceful once again...or has something changed? Suggested level: junior.
Subjects: Humorous stories, Adaptations, Stories in rhyme, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Possums, Fables, Brush-tailed possums, Children's stories, Phalangeridae, Pictorial works