Introduces children to the Australian words used to represent over one hundred animals, plants, and Aboriginal cultural objects that make up the rich and amazing landscape of the land down under. Includes illustrations by a native Bundjalung woman artist.

While drawing pictures of the animals she sees on her trip to Australia, a young girl named Ally meets Pauline, an aborigine woman and fellow artist, from whom Ally learns that art is not always created with just paper and paints, and that mistakes are actually happy accidents.