Books with author Ted Prior

Jingle all the way to Christmas! The perfect gift for younger readers, now available in ebook for the first time. Grug's first Christmas means lots of lovely surprises for Grug's bush friends. Everyone is learning that giving and receiving on this special day is what Christmas is all about ... ... and waking up on Christmas morning is the most wondrous moment of all!

One day, on his way home from shopping, Grug finds his path blocked by a fallen tree. Grug walks around the tree, but then he can’t see the path. He keeps walking, but he’s never been into this part of the forest before. The forest is very dark. And the trees begin to look like faces. Then a wallaby rushes past. Grug is frightened! Although he is very scared, he is also very tired. He closes his eyes and soon he is asleep. When he wakes up, he can see some light coming through the tall trees. He walks towards it. Soon Grug is out in the open. Then he sees Cara’s hollow log. ‘Not far to go now,’ says Grug. Safe in his burrow, Grug is very happy. ‘There’s no place like home,’ he says.

One hot morning, Grug decides to go to the creek for a swim. On his way there, he spots a strange creature lying on a rock. It looks like a dinosaur! The dinosaur chases Grug to the creek, and it follows him. Grug swims across the creek, and so does the dinosaur. Grug sits down for a rest under a tree. But where has the dinosaur gone? Then something falls on Grug’s head. It’s the dinosaur! Grug runs, with the dinosaur clinging to him. Grug trips over Cara’s hollow log, and the dinosaur flies off Grug. Cara comes out to see what’s happening. Grug and Cara look at the dinosaur. The dinosaur looks at them. Then it slithers off into the bush. Cara sighs. ‘Just a goanna,’ she says.