Author(s): Jackie French

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From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone, Drought, Pandemic and Earthquake ... Grass and wheat-lands spread to the horizon, and so did we, with too few ibis to control us. We could rage across the land. We ate the grass, the leaves, the wheat ...

The latest in the picture book series by Jackie French and illustrated by Bruce Whatley centring around various disasters that befall the world is Plague – about the locust plagues that devastate the grasses and wheats, the land and all the vegetation – and why. The story begins with the days before colonisation and moves through what happened after – how the landscape was altered so that bird that ate the locusts – the ibis – lost their homes and had to move away from where they would usually find their food. And so, without the ibis flocks, the locusts have been able to take over and this is why there have been more locust plagues in the country.