Joey the Kangaroo (64 Zoo Lane)

Joey the Kangaroo (64 Zoo Lane) by Vrombaut, An. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780340855607.

Lucy has some very strange neighbors with horns, humps, tails, and trunks. Thats because Lucy lives next door to the zoo! Every night, she climbs down the long neck of Georgina the Giraffe and listens to one of them tell her a story. Joey is a little kangaroo who lives in Australia. But Joey has problems doing the one thing all kangaroos are famous for—jumping! Will he learn to jump like a real kangaroo before the Junior Jump Competition? His friends tease him and his parents cant believe it, but then Ribit the Frog gives him some advice and lends him some magic jumping boots. Soon Joey can jump taller and higher than all the others—but will they let him enter the competition with boots on?