The Thylacine and the Time Machine | Renee Treml | 2025 [NEW – SC – Ages 8–12]

Twelve-year-old Violet, her dog Tassie and a new friend — Thyla, the ghost of the last Tasmanian tiger — go on a wild adventure to learn the real story of the thylacine: how it lived, why it disappeared, and whether there could ever be hope for its return.

Written and illustrated by Renee Treml, the book weaves a time-travel adventure story through genuinely fascinating facts about the thylacine — its biology, the bounty system that drove it to extinction, the last captive animals at Hobart Zoo, and the current scientific work exploring whether de-extinction might one day be possible.

A good read for children aged 8–12 who are interested in animals and Tasmania. The thylacine is always a hot topic — a child who's just visited the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery or heard about the de-extinction project will find this exactly the right follow-up.

We stock the full range of thylacine books from children's picture books through to serious adult reference works — if you're building a Tasmanian tiger collection for a young reader, this pairs well with Benny's Quest for the Tasmanian Tiger, Stripes in the Forest and One Careless Night for a complete children's thylacine shelf, or with PooFlip and the Cradle Mountain Wildlife Fold for a broader Tasmanian wildlife gift pack.

BOOK DETAILS

Softcover.

Published 2025.

164-pages.

CONDITION

New.

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