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Meerkat Mayhem
  • Published: 5 November 2024
  • ISBN: 9780143777687
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $24.00

Meerkat Mayhem

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Another hilarious picture book gem from the legendary team who brought us the highly acclaimed and bestselling Where is the Green Sheep?

One day, after another hearty meal,
Meerkat decided to leave his burrow and take a walk.
But he found himself, all at once...stuck fast!
'Mother of all meerkats!' he said.
And that is where the mayhem began...
  • Published: 5 November 2024
  • ISBN: 9780143777687
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $24.00
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About the authors

Mem Fox

Mem Fox has written more than 40 books for children, including the bestselling and much-loved picture books Possum Magic and Where is the Green Sheep?. Other books by Mem include Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, Hunwick’s Egg, Hello Baby!, A Giraffe in the Bath, Koala Lou, Baby Bedtime and Roly Poly. In 2019, The Tiny Star was released to great critical acclaim from the Australian Book Industry, and 2021 saw the release of two new picture books, Early One Morning and Cat Dog, followed by Our Dragon in 2023. Mem’s newest picture book, Meerkat Mayhem, is another exciting collaboration from the talented and bestselling Where is the Green Sheep? team.
Mem has been presented with an array of book awards and was awarded an AM for services to the cultural life of Australia in 1993.
Mem lives in Adelaide and is a retired Associate Professor of Literacy Studies from Flinders University, South Australia.

portrait photo of Mem Fox

Judy Horacek

Judy Horacek is an Australian cartoonist, writer and illustrator. She has been drawing cartoons for many years and they have been published widely both in Australia and overseas, in books, newspapers, magazines and on merchandise.

Her work is often concerned with feminism, the environment and social justice issues. Ten collections of her cartoons have been published, including Woman with Altitude, Life on the Edge, I am woman hear me draw, and her most recent, Now or Never. Major retrospectives of her cartoons have been held at the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, and she regularly exhibits her watercolour paintings and limited edition prints.

Her first ever picture book was the highly acclaimed and bestselling Where is the Green Sheep?, created with Mem Fox. She has since published four picture books on her own, including The Story of Growl, and four others with Mem Fox. Their newest book together is the hilarious Meerkat Mayhem.

portrait photo of Judy Horacek

Praise for Meerkat Mayhem

This is classic Mem Fox storytelling with story repetition as each animal joins the queue to make a bigger and bigger tug to release our Meerkat from being stuck. Fox and illustrator Judy Horacek are the team behind the classic Where is the Green Sheep and this book certainly has a similar feeling to it. Great fun.

Jane Stephens, Good Reading

Mem Fox and Judy Horacek, the dream team behind the popular picture book Where Is the Green Sheep? (now celebrating its 20th anniversary), have a new collaboration that is also likely to become a contemporary classic . . . An interactive tale that invites children aged 3+ ‘inside’ the story to help solve the dilemma, Meerkat Mayhem is a natural successor to Pamela Allen’s iconic Who Sank the Boat? and Alexander’s Outing.

Joy Lawn, Bookseller+Publishing

'Mem Fox is THE master of stories for little ones … If you or someone you know has just had a little one, then this is a must-have on their bottom shelf so they can reach for it whenever they want it.'

Barbara Braxton, The Bottom Shelf

Another keeper from Mem Fox and Judy Horacek … Like Where is the green sheep? Meerkat Mayhem is likely to become a classic, kept in a family and handed down to the next generation. Highly Recommended.

ReadPlus

As soon as you read this hilarious update, or look-alike, of The Great Big Enormous Turnip along with Judy Horacek’s always distinctive illustrations, you will know that this is definitely going to be on everyone’s lists.

Sue Warren, Just So Stories

Awards & recognition

Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year

Shortlisted  •  2025  •  Birth to three years

CBCA Book of the Year Awards

Notable Book  •  2025  •  Early Childhood