Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French, illustrated by Bruce Whatley, 2002.

This cute picture book is written in the form of a diary written by a wombat.  The early entries are mostly eating and sleeping, typical for an animal. 

It gets funnier when the wombat makes herself at home in someone’s yard.

The wombat wins a fight with their doormat and demands food from the humans. They give the wombat a carrot. Big mistake.

Once you feed a wild animal, it comes back for more, and it doesn’t want to take “no” for an answer.

The wombat makes a hole in the humans’ yard but moves out when she doesn’t like their sprinkler.

She also gets tired of the carrots they’ve been feeding her and demands oats instead.

You could say that the humans now have a pet wombat, but the wombat looks at it the other way around.  The wombat is probably right.

This is one of those books where the pictures really make the story.  It’s also a good warning against feeding wild animals! Yet, the wombat is pretty cute . . .