Kookaburra toys are not just fun laughing birds for children to play with, but can engage and entertain kids too. Role playing kookaburra stuffed toys to tell stories can help to make children’s books like ‘The Kookaburra who couldn’t Laugh’, ‘Kookaburras love to Laugh’ or ‘Who is Laughing’ come to life.
Sharing a story with your child’s soft and cuddly kookaburra plush toy can help child development and improve your child’s reading, communication and vocabulary skills. A much loved kookaburra toy could be the perfect learning companion for children to practice their reading and storytelling skills. And if your child has an interest in kookaburras or Australian animals, then children’s books that feature a kookaburra theme are the perfect book to entertain them.
We’ve compiled a selection of some our favorite story books for children featuring the cute and cuddly kookaburras. Children can experience story time together with their favourite kookaburra toy and take them along on their imaginative adventures as they turn the pages of these kookaburra theme children’s books.
Kookoo Kookaburra
Written and illustrated by Gregg Dreise
Kookoo is a kind and well-loved kookaburra who is famous for entertaining the other bush creatures with his funny stories. One day Kookoo runs out of kind stories to tell, and he turns to teasing and making fun of the other animals.
Refusing to listen to the sage advice of his uncle, Kookoo finds himself alone and ignored by his friends. When he listens to the sound of his own laughter, it is an unhappy sound. Finally he remembers his uncle’s words “Kindness is like a boomerang – if you throw it often, it comes back often…”
The Kookaburra Who Couldn’t Laugh
Written by Robert Cox and illustrated by Jim Robins
A brand new Australian picture book about a little kookaburra who couldn’t do what kookaburra’s are supposed to do – laugh Fitting in is often difficult for children just as it is for Bridget. She overcomes this by laughing at herself even though she gets a bump on the head in the process. Beautiful watercolour illustrations.
The Kookaburras First Laugh
Written by Linda Mason and illustrated by Jessica Mason
An illustrated children’s book… Have you ever wondered how kookaburras got their laugh? On a sunny day one summer, koalas gave the kookaburras laughter.
The Kookaburras First Laugh was written around the dinner table one night back in 1993 in Sydney, Australia by the Mason family. It was finally illustrated and published in 2020.
I See a Kookaburra!: Discovering Animal Habitats Around the World
Written by Steve Jenkins and illustrated by Robin Page
Whether in the sky, on the land, or in the sea, animals live in all sorts of fascinating environments. Discover six of the most intriguing habitats, and have fun pinpointing the camouflaged critters hiding within them in this interactive and informative picture book full of furry, feathery, and ferocious creatures.
Koko the Kookaburra Who Couldn’t Laugh
Written by Paul Ashford Harris and illustrated by Anne Bowman
Mr and Mrs Kookaburra give their three chicks, Caroline, Castanet and Koko, laughing lessons. After a while they begin to notice there is a problem. Koko isn’t laughing at all.
A beautifully illustrated, educational children’s book about our Australian wildlife and the importance of environmental protection.
Kookaburra
Written by Claire Saxby and illustrated by Tannya Harricks
The team behind Dingo returns with a lyrically told, beautifully illustrated exploration of another unique Australian animal: the laughing kookaburra.
In the crinkled shadows, night dwellers yawn, day creatures stretch, and Kookaburra laughs.
Kook-kook-kook. Kak-kak-kak. What is that sunrise chorus that sounds like laughter? It is a kookaburra and her family, calling over the river. Follow these iconic Australian birds as they search for food and team up to defend their territory in preparation for the nesting season. With rich paintings and poetic text, threaded through with intriguing facts, Kookaburra offers insight into the lives of these fascinating birds. Curious readers will find more information about kookaburras at the end, as well as an index leading them back through the book to explore these distinctive creatures more closely.
The Kookaburra That Could
Written by Siobhan Reddel and illustrated by Georgia Freebody
An illustrated book for children of all ages about Jack, a young kookaburra living with his family amongst other birds and animals in an Australian bushland setting. Jack is learning about life. He has a problem though, he can’t call as a kookaburra is supposed to do: he can’t kooka. Then, one day something challenging happens which Jack turns into an opportunity to find his voice. Because of his courage he ends up gaining in wisdom, generosity, and experience.
Who is Laughing?
Written and illustrated by Eva-Marie Welsh
This Australian Kookaburra Kids Book is an illustrated children’s story about a Laughing Kookaburra, called ‘Bluey’.(Character’s name suggested by Bob Irwin on World Cassowary Day in Mission Beach, Queensland, Australia). Sometimes, this unique Australian bird, is surprising or annoying other birds with its laughter.
First of all, the Australian Kookaburra Kids Book starts with the Laughing Kookaburra disturbing the Frogmouth family, which is trying to sleep. Then, the Rainbow lorikeets discover that even their screeching is not as loud as the kookaburra’s. Bluey flies from place to place. He seems to laugh at the Sulphur-crested cockatoos. Some black cockatoos are sitting in an Eucalyptus tree. A gum nut drops on Bluey’s head. The story includes encounters with cassowaries, scrub turkeys and bush stone curlews. Contrasting nesting habits are featured. Finally, as Bluey wants to sleep, he gets disturbed by the calling noises of the bush stone curlew. Other illustrations include a paradise kingfisher, Evodia trees and pandanus as well as amazing trees and birds.
Kookaburras love to laugh.
Written by Laura Bunting and illustrated by Philip Bunting
It is no laughing matter when you are the most serious bird in the borough.
Kookaburras love to laugh. They laugh when it is sunny, or rainy, or windy. They laugh for no reason at all. When one serious kookaburra decides to flee the jokers, and goes to find a more suitable flock, he finds that perhaps he might just be in the right place after all.
