Caroline Chisholm to the Rescue is a story that reflects the nature and helpfulness that mirrors the soul of this great woman and social reformer. She was well known in England as well as in Australia and this year marks the 200th anniversary of her birth in 1808 in Northampton.

Jo Fisher has captured the times that she worked in early Sydney at the beginning of the settlement.

This book is suitable for children studying this colonial time period and who were born after she was taken off the $5 note.