Strike at the Baby Factory
What happens when the storks responsible for delivering the world’s babies decide they’ve had enough?

They go on strike, of course!

Strike at the Baby Factory is a wonderfully cheeky and imaginative children’s story that turns the old tale of storks delivering babies into a hilarious delivery disaster.

In a time before emails, ATMs and mobile phones, the hardworking storks of STRALIA POST have a very important job: delivering babies safely to their waiting families.

Usually, everything runs according to plan.

Until one day…it doesn’t.

The storks are fed up. Wings are crossed. Deliveries stop but the cabbage patches are not warned.

Absolute bedlam!!

Something has to be done.

Eventually the storks decide they had better get those babies delivered — and fast. But after all the disruption, things don't go quite according to plan.

In their frantic rush, babies begin arriving wherever the storks can possibly deliver them.

And that is when the real trouble begins.

Families are puzzled. Babies turn up in unexpected places. The storks are trying to catch up. And suddenly everyone is wondering:

Has somebody delivered the wrong baby?

Set against a warm and distinctly Australian backdrop, Strike at the Baby Factory combines the magic of an old-fashioned childhood tale with the wonderfully ordinary world of postal workers, strikes, mixed-up deliveries and suburban family life.

Colourful illustrations, expressive storks, babies, dogs and a wonderfully diverse collection of Australian families bring the chaos to life, while the mischievous STRALIA POST storks attempt to sort out the enormous mess created.

Young children can delight in the silliness of the story and search the illustrations for all the funny details, while parents and grandparents will recognise another historical layer of humour hiding underneath. It is a picture book designed to be enjoyed together — and to invite plenty of conversation, laughter and questions along the way.

At its heart, Strike at the Baby Factory celebrates families in all their wonderful variety and reminds us that even when everything goes spectacularly wrong, there may still be a way to put things right.

Funny, warm, slightly mad and unmistakably Australian, Strike at the Baby Factory is a story for children, parents, grandparents — and anyone who has ever wondered what might really happen if the posties went on strike.

The babies are ready.
The families are waiting.
But STRALIA POST has stopped work!

What could possibly go wrong?