Tiny Possum and the Migrating Moths

By Julie Murphy and Ben Clifford (CSIRO Publishing, 2021)

High in the Australian Alps, Possum needs to find enough food and shelter to survive the harsh alpine winter. She will spend months hibernating under a blanket of snow. Will she last through the year to successfully raise a new family?

The mountain pygmy-possum is small in size but huge in appeal! Once thought to be extinct, there are now around 2500 of these tiny survivors in the wild. They need snow and bogong moths to survive, and the support of great conservation work.

I trained as a zoologist and zookeeper, and have been a children’s book author and presenter for over ten years. Why do I write? Because it’s fun! What do I write about? Mostly my main interests – animals and the environment.

Meet Julie Murphy