Sing along to this classic Christmas carol with an Aussie spin!

On the first day of Christmas
my best friend gave to me –
A kookaburra in a gum tree!

'The Twelve Days of Christmas' has been given an Aussie spin in this animal-filled edition illustrated by Cate James. Sing along to this classic Christmas carol while counting all the bouncing kangaroos, grinning wombats, squawking seagulls and sleeping koalas. Did you find them all?

Details

ISBN13: 9781761601484
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 32
Edition:
Publication Date: 01 Sep 2026
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Publication City, Country: Newtown, Australia
Dimensions (cm): 26.7(H)x25.7(L)
Weight (gm):

Author Biography

Cate James is a full-time illustrator, and when she’s not drawing for children's books, she likes to find different ways to be an artist. She volunteers with ArtEx at the Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick, and teaches art to primary-aged children. She also works as a printmaking technician at UNSW. Cate has illustrated over 30 books for publishers in the UK, US and Australia and was awarded the Penguin Random House Illustrators’ Showcase Award in 2019. Cate moved to Australia from Scotland, where she studied Printmaking and Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. She is now living in the Northern Beaches of Sydney with her husband and her sausage dog Sebastian.

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