This is a children's book, and should be judged by those standards.

I very much appreciated how this captured the interface between Australian mythology and western culture as a farming family deal fairly sensitively with something outside their ken, although there seemed to be a large gap where the First Nation people should be (perhaps excusable given the 1974 publication date, but perhaps not).

I'm a little surprised it didn't make it in as an Australian classic.

Also taking a month to read 140 pages of easy text is not a good look. Do better, Brett.