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Ruby and the Blazing Bushfire
“We’re leaving now!”
With those words, Ruby’s parents gathered her and her brothers together, loaded their truck with emergency supplies they had collected, and drove to the nearest evacuation centre.
Ruby knows that bushfires can flare up quickly and move rapidly. When her parents learn that a bushfire is heading toward their sheep farm, Ruby is scared but gets to work helping her family prepare. As they evacuate to a community shelter with her beloved grandfather, Ruby can smell the fire on the wind and see its glow in the night sky. She can only hope their preparations will keep them safe.
Ruby and the Blazing Bushfire is a resource for parents, grandparents, first responders, and educators to help young people understand and accept our normal fears about natural disasters and understand the importance of planning ahead to survive them. Included is a glossary of the various terms used by Australian states and a preparation guide for bushfires.
Ruby knows that bushfires can flare up quickly and move rapidly. When her parents learn that a bushfire is heading toward their sheep farm, Ruby is scared but gets to work helping her family prepare. As they evacuate to a community shelter with her beloved grandfather, Ruby can smell the fire on the wind and see its glow in the night sky. She can only hope their preparations will keep them safe.
Ruby and the Blazing Bushfire is a resource for parents, grandparents, first responders, and educators to help young people understand and accept our normal fears about natural disasters and understand the importance of planning ahead to survive them. Included is a glossary of the various terms used by Australian states and a preparation guide for bushfires.
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Published September 4, 2025
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September 16, 2025
‘But the land healed’ – hope for recovery after bushfires
Australian author Ben Jackson has two homes - Tasmania, Australia (his birth place) and Ontario, Canada where he now lives with his Canadian born wife and co-author Chrissy Hobbs (aka Sam Lawrence). Ben is a tradesman by day and a writer with Chrissy by night. Tanya Zeinalova provides the illustrations for this new series.
In support of SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) this well-written book encourages kids to understand their feelings, cope with uncertainty, and find resilience. The story is about the impact of bushfires on Ruby and her family in New South Wales, and while the tale is absorbing and entertaining, the ‘’blazing bushfire’ is related in the manner of floods, snowstorms, and tornadoes in other books by these authors. Messages of finding courage and community make this new adventure a valuable learning lesson for us all!
Australian author Ben Jackson has two homes - Tasmania, Australia (his birth place) and Ontario, Canada where he now lives with his Canadian born wife and co-author Chrissy Hobbs (aka Sam Lawrence). Ben is a tradesman by day and a writer with Chrissy by night. Tanya Zeinalova provides the illustrations for this new series.
In support of SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) this well-written book encourages kids to understand their feelings, cope with uncertainty, and find resilience. The story is about the impact of bushfires on Ruby and her family in New South Wales, and while the tale is absorbing and entertaining, the ‘’blazing bushfire’ is related in the manner of floods, snowstorms, and tornadoes in other books by these authors. Messages of finding courage and community make this new adventure a valuable learning lesson for us all!
September 20, 2025
This is the third book in the Natural Disaster series and the more specific Australian one. Other countries may learn from it as well.
Ruby lives in a fire prone area and is very aware of what steps to take to minimise risk around the home and also about previous bushfires. she is aware that when the time to leave and head to the safe evacuation centre was what they had to do with the emergency gear with them.
This lesson is not just for rural farms but any Fire prone area. Having worked feeding in Evac Centres during the many bushfires over the past 25 years I know this happens in my local area where it backs onto bushlands. An excellent teaching resource for many and even other countries can guide through after wildfires so kids can navigate what happened.
Yet again Ben and Chrissy have put together this instalment to really help.
Ruby lives in a fire prone area and is very aware of what steps to take to minimise risk around the home and also about previous bushfires. she is aware that when the time to leave and head to the safe evacuation centre was what they had to do with the emergency gear with them.
This lesson is not just for rural farms but any Fire prone area. Having worked feeding in Evac Centres during the many bushfires over the past 25 years I know this happens in my local area where it backs onto bushlands. An excellent teaching resource for many and even other countries can guide through after wildfires so kids can navigate what happened.
Yet again Ben and Chrissy have put together this instalment to really help.
September 22, 2025
Great teaching resource, loved how this one was from Australia, loved how when in need everyone can come together and work together as a community
Great Read for ages 5-8
Great Read for ages 5-8
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