Phasmid: Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect

[Music plays and an image of a book cover with text: Phasmid Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect, Rohan Cleave and Coral Tulloch appears on screen]

[Image changes to show a small hand holding a Phasmid]

[Image changes to show an illustration in the book. A Phasmid can be seen next to text: My mother can bury my egg underground. She carefully covers my egg with dirt to keep me safe and warm. I am not the only egg my mother will lay. She can lay up to 300 eggs in her lifetime.]

[Image changes to show text: Sometimes a story of animal survival in the wild is so unbelievable that you could not possibly think it was true]

[Image changes to show text: Phasmid is one such story…]

[Image changes to show an illustration in the book, a Phasmid in tree branches]

[Image changes to show a Rohan Cleave holding a Phasmid in one hand and the book Phasmid Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect in the other. Text appears under his picture: A uniquely Australian kid’s book written by Melbourne Zoo zookeeper Rohan Cleave]

[Image changes to show another illustration of the book. Text appears underneath the picture: With stunning watercolour illustrations by renowned artist Coral Tulloch]

[Different samples of the illustrations of the book flash by on screen]

[Image changes to show text: Phasmid is the first children’s book form CSIRO Publishing. Out now www.publish.csiro.au/phasmid]

[Image changes to show text: Music: Funny Song – Bensound.com]