A heart-warming story about a young girl and a TV presenter who form an unlikely friendship and work together to rescue and rehabilitate a group of orphaned kangaroos. When Chris, a disillusioned Australian TV presenter, finds himself stranded in an outback town, he teams up with a twelve-year-old Indigenous girl Charlie. The pair form an unlikely friendship and work together to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned joeys in the remote outback community. Based on a true story and the film featuring Ryan Corr, Lily Whiteley, Deborah Mailman and Brooke Satchwell, KANGAROO is a heart-warming story about friendship, grief and finding your place in the world.

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Ashleigh Barton is a children's author and copywriter. Before writing full time, she pursued her love of books (children's books especially) by working in some of Australia's biggest publishing houses, running marketing and publicity campaigns for globally renowned authors and illustrators. Ashleigh is the author of eight successful and highly acclaimed picture books and two junior fiction series, and has been recognised on the CBCA Notables and/or Shortlist in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Her picture book Dinosaur in My Pocket was a 2025 CBCA Notable Book. In 2025 Ashleigh published her acclaimed middle grade fiction book How to Sail to Somewhere and her picture book Hedgehog or Echidna? will be published in August 2025. Ashleigh lives in Sydney with her husband, three children and their dog.