Twelve-year-old Tod's mystical links with a spirit, half man and half fox, and with the natural world surrounding his grandmother's house in the Australian countryside challenge his attempt to adjust to the real world.
When she overhears one of the tenants in her apartment building verbally abusing the hard-working caretaker, Mr. Egozian, Hazel Green determines to find a way a to teach the unpleasant tenant a lesson.
An allegory that uses the introduction of rabbits to Australia to portray the arrival of Europeans there and the widespread environmental destruction caused by man throughout the continent.
One of the many mysteries of the red kangaroo is how they live in the outback. The red kangaroo is constantly on the move through the outback, when not busy constantly on the move through the outback, when not busy boxing one another.