Narelle Oliver is the author-illustrator of a number of award-winning children’s picture books including: Leaf Tail, High Above the Sea, The Best Beak in Boonaroo Bay, The Hunt, Sand Swimmers, Mermaids Most Amazing, Baby Bilby where do you Sleep?, The Very Blue Thingamajig, Dancing the Boom-cha-cha Boogie, Twilight Hunt and Home.

Fox and Fine Feathers is a contemporary Australian fable from the forest floor of the ecologically rich and diverse Border Ranges region of Australia which straddles the border of Queensland and New South Wales and includes Mt Tamborine. 

The book features four groundbirds – Lyrebird, Coucal, Pitta, and Nightjar.  Although as different as it is possible to be, they always look out for danger and warn each other to hide.  All this changes when Lyrebird discovers his beautiful tail and forgets the others and the dangers lurking in the forest.  The other birds follow suit, showing off and obsessed with their feathers except Nightjar whose feathers are patchy and dull.  In the end, it is only Nightjar who can save them from the fox  - thanks to his feathers which look like nothing more than a pile of old leaves.