An eco-fable about our response to the (at the time of writing) looming environmental catastrophe. The responses of different australian animals to a wildfire that sweeps across the bush can be read as parables of how we might respond to man-made environmental threats such as pollution: turn and face them, laconically ignore them, or carry on and hope for the best. Not a children's book, per se, and will probably not be enjoyed by readers of the Muddleheaded Wombat or Angela McAllister's wombat books.