Go Home, Cheeky Animals!

A funny and much-loved CBCA-winning picture book set in an outback community


WINNER: CBCA Book of the Year, Early Childhood, 2017

WINNER: Territory Read Awards, Children's or Young Adult, 2018


At Canteen Creek where we live, there are cheeky dogs everywhere. But when the cheeky goats, donkeys, buffaloes and camels make mischief in the camp, the dogs just lie there - until those pesky animals really go too far. Then the cheeky camp dogs roar into action!


'A funny, uplifting and beautifully written tale about family, home and place.' Ros Moriarty, author of Listening to Country.


Johanna Bell lives in Darwin and works on storytelling projects as a creative producer and writer.


Dion Beasley is well known for his Cheeky Dogs brand. A former resident of Tennant Creek, NT, he now lives on the Sunshine Coast.