Jo-jo The Red Nosed Roo

About the Book

Jo-Jo, the kangaroo, was a very sad kangaroo. He was sad because it was the day before Christmas Eve and all his friends were able to go down to the creek in the magic bushland for a swim and he could not. Jo-Jo had come down with a cold the day before. His eyes were watery, his throat was sore, and his nose was red and stuffy. All of Jo-Jo’s friends laughed at Jo-Jo because the night before his nose glowed bright red.

Jo-Jo didn’t think it was funny. He got very sad and went and curled up in his bed. When he lay in his bed, he looked out the window and gazed up at the stars.

Suddenly a shooting star went shooting through the sky. Jo-Jo looked up at the shooting star and made a wish.

‘I wish my friends would stop laughing at me,’ he said.

Jo-Jo then closed his eyes and fell fast asleep.

About the Author

Jodee lives in Queensland, Australia, with her three children, her soon-to-be husband David, and their cat named Sabrina. She has always loved to write for as long as she can remember. Jodee’s future plans for writing are to write some more children’s stories, a novel or two, and even gather up the poems that are left lying all over the house cluttering up draws and put them into a book.