Listen For It

Listen For It is the fourth book in Gerry’s Campfire Adventures, a ten book Australian bedtime picture book series for children aged 3 to 7.On a warm afternoon on the farm, Gerry the Giraffe and his friend Joey the Kangaroo are trusted with a simple job. Carry an invitation to Milo, who is coming for a campfire that night. They follow the three landmarks Mr. H gave them, the water tank, the red gate, and the big gum tree. Then a gust of wind takes the letter, they chase it around a bend, and the landmarks are gone.What follows is not a panic, and not a clever trick. It is something quieter. Joey sits down in the dust and remembers what Mr. H always says. When you do not know where you are, stop and listen. They go still. They hear the cows in the home paddock. They hear a galah near Milo’s tree. And they find their way home by the sounds they already knew.I made this book because being lost, or not knowing, does not have to be an emergency. Listening is shown here as a real and practical thing a child can do. Sit down. Go quiet. Wait. Recognise.Written for the bedtime hour, Listen For It features warm Australian outback illustrations, a sing along song page, and a set of gentle activity pages at the back. It pairs with the animated read along episode on the One More Story channel, where Mr. H reads each story beside the campfire with Gerry close by.Proudly Australian. Made for bedtime.