Platypus Bend

**CBCA Notable 2026, Eve Pownall Award**

The rivulet begins high on a mountain top. It twists and turns and turns and twists until it swirls around a bend and softens into a calm pool...

No-one knows but in that pool there is a secret.

From the award-winning author and illustrator behind Saving Seal and Chooks in Dinner Suits comes a meditative story about the elusive platypus, and the need to respect and nurture the environment it calls home.