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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 3h

Only one more sleep before the "Maya Follows Her Nose" launch party, and it's all coming together! 🥳🚨 Story Dogs? - primed! 🐕‍🦺📚 Koalas? Opinionated! 📣🐨 Biscuits? Getting their fancy sprinkles glow-up as we speak ✨ 🍪✨ Look forward to seeing some of you there! 🐨🐶📚🥳 #storydogs #kidlit #dogsky

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Willem Huiskamp @willemh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This has been an open secret in Australia for some time, with the federal government going to great lengths to *appear* as if they have effective climate policy, while rubber stamping mine after mine. It's disgraceful, and they are not held to account for it.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I trained 300 wolves to eat humans and put them hungry in my poorly-fenced back garden, and they escaped and ate your grandma! Please wake up to the existential risks of wolves before we put them in charge of driving buses!

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨“Maya Follows Her Nose” Launch Party is GO! 🐨🐶📚🥳 Come join us in celebrating the launch of the first book in our new SNIFF SQUAD series at Hobart’s Fullers Bookshop on Tuesday 13th October from 4:30PM. Here’s the booking link — hope to see you there! 🥳 www.trybooking.com/au/event/165... 🐨🐶📚💚🥳

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Sniff Squad Maya Follows Her Nose | Nic Gill in Conversation

Come along for the official launch of Maya Follows Her Nose written by Nic Gill and illustrated throughout by Jake A Minton. It’s the first book in th

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Gromit is now six! And will accept all the birthday perks available to him in the absence of his interfering co-woofers 🎾🐕🎂🍖🥳

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Maya Follows Her Nose” can now officially be found in the wild! 🐨🐶📚💚🥳 Thanks to everyone who helped tell Maya and Rom's story, and especially to Jake Minton for his absolutely fabulous illos. Please consider buying a copy from your local bookshop - my long-suffering dogs thank you in advance 🐨🐶📚

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Something nice to read over your Sunday coffee - we just published an updated gang-gang cockatoo chapter with @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social Read about these gorgeously silly birds - some cute videos in there too. birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/...

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Gang-gang Cockatoo - Callocephalon fimbriatum - Birds of the World

Species accounts for all the birds of the world.

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Morello has been practicing her emergency recalls. This was one of the less terrifying ones.

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a much bigger problem than the ABC report indicates. This homophobe is not a "failed candidate" yet. If either One Nation MLC quits parliament, dies or is disqualified in this term, then he will be elected. #wapol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

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Failed One Nation candidate says gay people have a mental illness

A failed One Nation candidate in WA describes gay people as having a mental illness in an offensive new video posted on social media.

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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I know we don't have an approved mammal-specific H5N1 vaccine ready for native mammals, my question is _why_? Why has this not been made a high priority, given we've had _years_ and many of Australia's threatened, range-restricted mammal species are at risk? thenightly.com.au/australia/h5...

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Mammals ‘highly vulnerable’, should be vaccinated: expert

A leading ecologist has asked why Australian mammals have been left behind as the Commonwealth rolls out a vaccine program for threatened birds.

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's my final week as a Guardian cartoonist ☹️ and here's my third last cartoon. It's a gamblin' one www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Will the government get it right on gambling reform? | Fiona Katauskas

Anthony Albanese is weighing up the options

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Zorro rarely misses an opportunity to hop up onto anything that will give him an altitude upgrade, but as soon as you ask him to do it, his passion project magically converts to a profit-focussed side-hustle 🦴🐶 🍪

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

As the EOFY bears down on us like a muddy spaniel with a tennis ball, please consider supporting the Story Dogs’ work with a donation, and help create a safe, joyful space where kids can develop a love of reading with a non-judgmental furry friend by their side 📚🐶🧒🏾 www.storydogs.org.au/donate-today

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Exciting first for me this week - an article in Books and Publishing announcing my first kid’s series, SNIFF SQUAD! Am so stoked to be working with the excellent UWA Publishing on all four books, to be illustrated by talented sparkle pony Jake Minton 🐶📚🥳 www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

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UWA Publishing acquires Sniff Squad series | Books+Publishing

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Somewhat resentfully back at work after two weeks off, with a lurgy I must’ve picked up on the plane 🤧Fortunately, my co-woofers have a much better attitude to work this week than I do

Black and white border collie in a hi-vis jacket, smiling at the camera, under a wind turbine in a paddock

Quite damp looking springer spaniel cross border collie wearing a faded hi-vis jacket and a tracking collar stands looking slightly puffed but happy at the base of a slope covered in Bracken fern

Black and white border collie wearing orange fluoro tracking colour sniffs the ground suspiciously next to a recently emerged shaggy ink cap mushroom

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Plant nerds - how cool is this?! Bushwalkers in SW Tasmania stumble across new population of super rare triploid clone, King’s Lomatia 👑 🌱 tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/very-ex...

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New site of critically endangered Tasmanian species found

A group of bushwalkers walking in remote southwest Tasmania has discovered a new population of a critically endangered plant, King’s lomatia.

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Zorro had to have a little operation a few days ago to deal with a small lump under his eyelid. He’s taking to “confinement” and effectively zero exercise exactly as well as you might expect 💥📣🐕

This and all of the photos apart from the last video show a black-and-white springer spaniel border collie cross wearing a hard plastic collar a.k.a. cone of shame, sitting in various positions looking mournfully at the camera

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

This Wednesday 15th April, I will have the absolute delight of chatting with the one and only Trace Balla at Fullers Bookshop in nipaluna/Hobart about her new graphic memoir, “Treeshape” 🌳📚💚 I know Trace's books are important to many of you, so wondered what *you* would like to hear her talk about?

White text on a graphic novel illustration which shows some people sitting around a campfire having a lovely time near their tents with a big tree in the background and a super imposed image of fern fronds. Text on the image says: introducing Treeshape. A graphic novel for ages 10 adult by Trace Balla. Come along to a conversation with Trace and Nic Gill at the Afterword cafe Fullers Bookshop, 131 Collins Street Hobart, four till 5 pm Wednesday, April 15. Sales signings online bookings Fullers or trace balla.com.

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

It may be Easter, a festival of rebirth and renewal, but whoever is in charge of engineering unnecessarily stubborn stickers is definitely going to Hell ☠️

A partially scratched off sticker on the side of a plastic storage box

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Gromit was disappointed that we wouldn’t let him enter his impressive marrow at the Bream Creek Show this weekend. But he’s still very proud of his work 🪏

This photo, and all of the other photos, show a black-and-white border collie sitting next to a very large zucchini. He looks quite pleased with himself.

This photo also shows a black and white border collie sitting next to a very large zucchini, but it’s still especially funny because he is sitting with his paws either side of it and is caught mid-yawn, which makes him look like he is screaming with excitement

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Yesssterday, we had an unexpected visitor in our garden. This is a juvenile tiger snake, likely one to two years old. Her slightly frosty-looking colouration apparently indicates that she is likely soon to shed her skin 🐍 ❄️

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It’s been a year of sometimes precipitous ups and downs, but one of the definite ups has been beginning to work professionally with the lovely Sarah McKenzie! Not only is she a very smart and supportive agent, she also has excellent taste in Christmas cards - thanks for everything Sarah! 📕 ✍️ 😇 📚

Three black and white dogs look slightly seriously the camera, flanking a cheerful Christmas card covered in festive dogs that says Merry Christmas on the front

Same as the other photo, but taken from a slightly higher angle

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Delighted to be the incoming President for the Australasian Conservation Dog Network (ACDN)! 🐕‍🦺 Today, the dogs and I celebrated these new responsibilities by heading into the field to sniff out random animal body parts, and by playing a little scat hide’n’seek 🐦 🦇 💩

Smiling, slightly wind blasted woman in orange hi vis shirt sitting in a car, with black and white dog in the background looking a bit cheeky.

Two black and white dogs (sprollie and border collie) wearing full field kit (high vis jackets and GPS collars) sit looking slightly warm but happy next to a dirty white ute, tongues out.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su... Art by @raafaye, insta

Poster announcing CREATIVES 4 SUDAN. A sudanese flag is waving behind the text. The rest reads AUCTION NOW LIVE! RAISING LIFE-SAVING FUNDS FOR PEOPLE ESCAPING GENOCIDE IN EL-FASHER, BID TODAY. galabid.com/creatives4sudan The art on the poster is by @raafaye on insta.

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Brisbane Friends! Book launch party alert!🐨🐶📕🥳 Rom and I are beary excited to be launching "Bear to the Rescue" at the excellent Where The Wild Things Are Bookshop on December 3 from 4.30pm! 🐕🐨 Reserve a spot via the link👇 Hope to see you there! 📚🐕💕 wherethewildthingsare.com.au/pages/13509-...

Picture book cover of "Bear to the Rescue" by Romane Cristescu and Nic Gill, illustrated by Sylvia Morris. Text around it says "Bear to the Rescue Book Launch, Dec 3 4:30PM, with Dr Romane Cristescu, Nic Gill and Story Dogs. Illustrations feature a koala and some gum trees.

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Tiny, senselessly broody chickens will never not be hilarious 🐥 🐥 #NoRoosterNoProblem

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Have nicked into Fullers Bookshop, Hobart, for a spot of arts and craft 📚🐾 As of this afternoon, you’ll be able to grab copies of “Bear to the Rescue” that are not only scrawled on by me, but also signed by Rom, Sylvia and Bear! 🐾 📖 🐨 🐶 🎉

Stack of a picture book called “Bear the Rescue” open on a cafe table, surrounded by glue sticks labels and coloured pans, also a pot of Chai

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Queensland is trying to kill me. Dogs and Bob cat similarly unimpressed.

Image shows a temperature gauge registering an outside temperature of 39.8°C and 35.5° inside.

Three dogs sitting on their dog beds with their tongues hanging out

Very large Maine coon cat lying on stairs near temperature gauge

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

There’s a Bear in there! 🐨 🐻 🐶 On the road to Wildlife HQ with the dog himself! 🍍 🐨 🐶 📕 🥳

Grey and white coolie dog with blue eyes in the back of a ute, poking his nose through screen

Grey and white coolie dog with blue eyes in the back of a ute behind screen

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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

“Twelve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have died in custody in NSW so far in 2025 – the highest number ever recorded in a single year, with more than two months remaining in the calendar,” O’Sullivan wrote. “This is a profoundly distressing milestone.“

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

🚨We're officially launching “Bear to the Rescue” this Friday 17th October at 4:30pm, at Fullers Bookshop, Hobart!📕🥳 Expect all the usual tomfoolery – face-painting, costumes, animal fun times & themed snacks - as well as a special appearance from the Tasmanian Story Dogs. Hope to see you there! 🐨🐶

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Bear To The Rescue | An Afternoon with Nic Gill

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Kidnapped in international waters, extraordinary rendition to a genocidal state, and then imprisoned indefinitely. You'd think this would trigger the immediate expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador for these inexcusable actions against an Australian citizen.

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

“Bear to the Rescue” is officially out today! Well, technically, it was officially out yesterday, but we were too busy trying to smash out our field work before the river got too high and flooded us in! ⛈️ 🐶 You can order a copy from your local book shop here 🐨🐶📚 yourbookstore.io/p/bear-to-th...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A cartoon from my new book PHYSICS FOR CATS which comes out a week tomorrow! Preorder at you local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

Image 1.
Title: Slides for my lecture at the geology conference
Three diagrams of layered forms labelled with:
Sandstone,
Shale,
Igneous rock,
Limestone,
Granite.

Image 2.
Title: Slides for my lecture at the desserts conference
The same diagrams now labelled with:
Sprinkles,
Custard,
Chocolate,
Sponge cake,
Berry compote,
Biscuit base.

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Eeep! Today, I had my first, entirely unexpected sighting of “Bear to the Rescue”in the wild! 🐨 🐶 📕 I didn’t expect to see them out so soon, so got completely over-excited and made Sophie and Tim pose holding them. Unbelievably, they are available in store at Fullers Bookshop RIGHT NOW! 🐨🐶📚

A stack of beautiful kids picture books, including my book, "Bear to the Rescue"

Bookseller Sophie holding a copy of "Bear to the Rescue" inside a bookshop. She is smiling and has pink hair.

Tim, a tall, blond bookseller with glasses, holds an open copy of "Bear to the Rescue"

Multiple open copies of the book "Bear to the Rescue", which have been signed by one of the authors, Nic Gill

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Just incredible that any government could under fund an eradication program for these things. Long term cost is going to be many multiples of the cost of an eradication program.

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Australia warned 'window of opportunity' to eradicate fire ants is 'closing'

Authorities launch an independent review of Australia's national fire ant eradication program to evaluate the country's fight against one of the world’s most destructive pests.

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

For anyone venturing anywhere near the Tasmanian Central Highlands, it is absolutely imperative you stop at the Bothwell Post Office. Not only do they make the most delicious cakes and GF “glamingtons”, they also provide a little snack for the doggos so they don’t feel left out 🍰🧁🍥🥮🐶🦴

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

This week, my Very Good Dog Gromit turned five 🖤🤍🎂🐶 🤍🖤 Hard to believe, also a bit scary how fast the time goes. Which is why it’s important to pack in as many good times as we can. According to Gromit, good times are generally improved by the addition of water, sand, pond slime, or snow.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Again and again: free speech silenced at the behest of an organised pro-Israel lobby group by weak-kneed management. If people don’t stand up to this pressure there won’t be a single institution left in which anyone can talk about the genocide in Gaza.

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Complaint letter emerges after Melbourne hospital’s decision to cancel ‘children and war’ panel angers staff

Exclusive: Letter to CEO argued event would pose a risk of ‘moral injury, vicarious trauma and harmful workplace behaviours’ to staff and patients

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

They know the climate chaos coming, they know their decision will make it worse, and kill any hope of mitigation, but they did it anyway - for their own benefit. Not a principle among them.

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

BEAR TO THE RESCUE has landed! 🐨🐶📙 Stoked to get our paws on our first copies of the new book! Got the dogs to help with unboxing - mixed results. Gromit was politely interested. Morello tried to eat the packaging, and fell off the bench. But Zorro is an old hand, and showed them how it's done!

Border collie wearing an inflatable collar, looking serious near an unopened box.

Book in a box, cover up: "Bear to the Rescue" by Romane Critescu, Nic Gill, Illustrated by Sylvia Morris.

Small black and white border collie with orange lead sits on bench next to opened box of books, eating a piece of non-toxic packaging material

Black and white sprollie licks his lips over open box of books.

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

🌳🐨🌳 I'm never sure if we should say "Happy" for this particular annual event, but something we can be happy about this Threatened Species Day is that the NSW Government just announced a huge new park - the Great Koala National Park! 🌳🐨🌳 Read all about it here: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Cover for a book entitled "Bear to the Rescue" illustrated in a cheerful cartoony style, with a grey and white dog in a working jacket and boots saying "Happy Threatened Species Day", standing under a burnt out tree with a koala and her joey sitting above him looking down.

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Good news for Threatened Species Day! A great big new park! 🌳🐨 🌳 Also nice to see that significant commitments have been made to support the people in the region who have relied on forestry for jobs until now — no real progress without supporting local communities 🐨 🌳💚🧍‍♂️

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

How do we feel about the old bit of Tasmanian bush wisdom "When the echidnas are out, the snakes are out"? 🐍🦔 Especially keen to hear opinions from either snake or echidna researchers on this one - if you can identify yourself as such, that would be fabulous!🐍🦔 #snakes #echidnas #dangernoodles

Two very furry Tasmanian highland echidnas shelter together, head to head, noses stuffed into some scraggly looking rushes.

Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife sign with a photo of a coiled, black Tiger Snake, advising Caution when in the area to passersby.

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

A tiny chicken meditation for those who need it

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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Just coloured up a small batch of the platypus prints and they are now available to buy. www.kudelkashop.com/product/ornc...

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Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Book giveaway to celebrate International Dog Day! 🐶📕🐕📚🐩 Show and tell me why your dog is the best dog*, and I’ll send whoever writes my favourite dog story a copy our new book, “Bear to the Rescue”, signed by Rom, Syl, Bear and I! 🐨🐶📕 Dog love stories: ready, set, GO!

Book cover for a picture book entitled"Bear to the Rescue" by Romane Cristescu, Nic Gill and Sylvia Morris, showing a grey and white dog in a blue working jacket, red protective boots, standing beneath a charred tree which shelters a mother koala and her joey. Dog speech bubble says "Happy International Dog Day!".

Black and white border collie nose boops the face of a woman in an orange high-vis shirt, safety helmet and sunglasses.

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