Isobelle Carmody has been awarded the Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction for Best Young Adult Short Story for her story "Green Monkey Dreams". This collection includes that story and thirteen others.

"Green Monkey Dreams' is a deeply unified collection, its stories linked together in complex and complementary ways. It contains humour, lyricism, breathcatching adventure and powerfully idiosyncratic narrative voices...the best kind of fantasy writing." - Australian Book Review.

"Potent, colourful and moving meditations on the power, and the hazards, of the imagination." - Canberra Times.