Wombat Art!
So excited to see some sample art from the talented Charles Santoso for WOMBAT UNDERGROUND. Love the richness of the colors and the contrast between under- and aboveground!
Wombats Poop in Cubes
Photo credit: Dmitri Brant
Wombats are adorable. They are fantastic diggers. And they are the only animal in the world that leaves cube-shaped poop. (Everybody else does balls, tubes, or splats.)
Even more weirdly wonderful, they take the cubes of poop and arrange them into piles to mark their territory. Cubes are better than rounded shapes for this purpose because they don’t roll away.
This was not a fact that I managed to work into my new picture book, Wombat Underground, but it was so delightfully fascinating I felt I had to share it with you.
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A sample of Charles’s warm, sweet, tender, richly colorful art
So excited that Charles Santoso has ageed to illustrate my upcoming picture book, Wombat Underground! I know he’ll give it both warmth and humor and pathos. It’s so great than an Australian artist will illustrate this story of fear and danger and community during the Australian bushfire season of 2019-20.
Read MoreSarah L. Thomson
A children’s book author publishing award-winning nonfiction, poetry, picture books and novels including…
“Readers will treasure the blossoming friendship between opposites in this whimsically illustrated tale. Short chapters and plenty of action make for an accessible and appealing reading experience. . . . Touching and inspiring.”
—Kirkus Reviews