The Quokkas' Christmas Quest: A Christmas adventure for ages 8+

Wallabies Help Santa — eBook & Audiobook Review — This is a delightfully fun children's Christmas story taking place on an Australian island. In case you don't know what a quokka is, it is a small wallaby about the size of a house cat. In this story, two quokkas living on the island not only get to meet Santa on his yearly trek to give out presents, but they also have to help him because he accidentally left a few presents behind, undelivered to their destinations. The two main-character quokkas have to figure out how to get these presents to the right kids… and it certainly is not easy! They even run into a set of villainous quokkas who definitely try to thwart them. The book has a few more scatological references to the things that happen at the far end of the gastrointestinal system than I like to see in a book like this, but kids do appreciate that kind of humor. The book is certainly funny, and not just from that. I received both the eBook and audiobook versions of the story, and I found the audiobook version extremely well done. The narrator is incredibly talented, able to voice all the characters distinctly and was even able to give the villainous quokkas distinctly different and evil-sounding voices. I was not as wild about the eBook version because it was simply text. I am not sure what the age range of this book is supposed to be, but it certainly would have been better with a few illustrations scattered throughout. It had none within the main text. (I hope the published version is different, as I did receive an ARC copy.) Still, this was certainly a fun and funny Christmas read and listen. -- 4 stars for the eBook; 5 stars for the audiobook. -- I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.