The bandicoot book series

Our children's books on bandicoots
     Scoot, Scoot Bandicoot!

  Where's Our Dad?

Everybody has a father, right? Bounce and Pounce aren't sure about that. Everybody else seems to have a father except them.

In this new story about the Scoot, Scoot Bandicoots® Bounce and Pounce find out about all sorts of different fathers, and get a surprise when they least expect it.

Where's Our Dad? has updated notes on real bandicoots plus -- a colouring-in page!

  Bounce's Sore Tummy

Bounce is in trouble again. Can Pounce and Mum rescue him, or will they need help? In this brand-new Scoot, Scoot Bandicoots ® adventure you can find out:
-- What butterflies taste like;
-- How big a beetle has to be before it's big enough to share.
-- Why you shouldn't eat something you find in the garden shed.

Bounce's Sore Tummy has updated notes on real bandicoots plus -- a colouring-in page!

  Scoot Scoot, Bandicoot!

Why is Grandpa Bandicoot so grumpy?

Bounce and Pounce want to help make him feel better, but it seems that everything they do is a disaster. After a lot of mistakes they finally discover what’s really wrong and how to put it right.

Based on real-life observations of these little known Australian marsupials, “Scoot, Scoot Bandicoot ® will charm beginning readers and teach them something about how bandicoots live.

             ISBN: 978-0-646-4992-5

   The Big Red Bucket

Bounce is in trouble again—a whole bucketful of trouble!

The little bandicoot’s liking for strawberry jam has landed him in a mess and it looks as if he can’t get out of it.

Find out what happens in the new book about the Scoot, Scoot Bandicoots. ® With information pages about real-life bandicoots and a colour-it-yourself page.


             ISBN: 0-9775948-0-7

  Pounce's Special Friend

Even the smartest little bandicoots can get into trouble.

Why won’t Pounce’s new friend come home and meet Mum? What’s happened to Baby Jack? And why doesn’t Bounce want any of Kerry Kookaburra’s play lunch?

Book III in the adventures of the Scoot, Scoot, Bandicoots ® is sure to enthrall young readers. With updated notes on real bandicoots and a colour-it-yourself page.
               ISBN: 798-0-9775948-1-8

The Scoot, Scoot Bandicoot book series is available as individual books or as a five book set.

We know you will enjoy the Scoot, Scoot Bandicoot book series by Australian children's author, Karen Treanor. Please vist the bandicoot diary pages for entertaining stories of our favourite bandicoot hijinks. You may also want to visit some of our children's link partners on our links page.

Other Books By Karen Treanor

  A Tree in Mundaring

Now Available!

What started with two suburbanites lost on the back roads turned into a 20-year love affair with the beautiful and ever-surprising Perth Hills. This collection of short stories about enterprising bandicoots, predatory possums, and the biggest spiders outside a nightmare will amuse and entertain readers of all ages.

The Angelus Ghost

Now Available!



The Angelus Ghost is a romantic mystery with a dash of history. It is in its second printing just in time for Christmas. Suitable for ladies of quality from 15 to 95, the story features a heroine smart enough not to go into a spooky cellar without a light and a derringer!

Nothing in her nursing training prepared Tara O’Neill to be a ghost hunter --but then she came to Angelus.

Even as western Ireland welcomes in the twentieth century, events from long ago cast chilling shadows over Angelus House, scene of many dark and bloody deeds, where unexplained ‘accidents’ are threatening the life and sanity of Meade Castlereagan.

The villagers say the house is haunted; Meade’s husband thinks she’s imagining things; but Tara believes there’s something truly evil roaming the dark halls.

Can she convince anyone else before another murder is done?

Torn between her duty to her patient and the amorous attention of two attractive men, Tara grits her teeth, loads her derringer, and sets out to find The Angelus Ghost.