Winner, Years 3-5 Section, Children Rate Outstanding Writers/illustrators (CROW) Award 1997 Shortlisted, Primary Division, ACT Canberra's Own Outstanding List (COOL) Awards 1998 Shortlisted, Secondary Division, ACT Canberra's Own Outstanding List (COOL) Awards 1998 Honour Book, Book of the Year Younger Readers, Children's Book Council of the Year Awards 1997 From the author of the best-selling, award-winning, mind-boggling adventure 45 & 47 Stella Street and everything that happened comes Don't Pat the Wombat! You've been on school camp, you can't see the film, now read the book! Starring Crom The Bomb, Jonah the Loner, Mary, Petal the little black dog, Miss Antonia Cappelli, Bulldozer the Wombat, Meatloaf the Pumpkin, Sinbad the Horse, Helmut from Germany, The Convicts, The oompa doompa, with special guest appearance by 60,000 leeches!

Elizabeth Honey is the hugely popular, award-winning author of poetry, picture books and junior novels. Her playful humour, originality and energy strike a chord with kids everywhere. Her books are published in the USA, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary, Bulgaria, Korea, Taiwan and China. Elizabeth's ten-year-old son, William, did the crazy drawings for Don't Pat the Wombat!. This is Elizabeth Honey's second novel. Her first, 45 + 47 Stella Street and everything that happened, is a best-selling favourite with kids and adults around the world.