• Honey possum with banksias and bottle brushes at night time painted by Sarah Matsuda.

    Children’s books inspired by the Australian landscape.

  • Wallaby with joey in her pouch grazing in front of some trees at night time painted by Sarah Matsuda.

    Australia - a treasure trove of biodiversity.

  • Stone Curlews standing together with the moon in the distance painted in acrylic by Sarah Matsuda.

    Environmental Literacy.

  • Northern hairy nosed wombat with baby emerging from their burrow at night time painted by Sarah Matsuda.

    Storytelling cultivates connections with the natural world.

 
 
“At Wet Season Books, our vision is to create children’s stories that celebrate the Australian environment and its unique ecology. ”
— Cate Storey
 
 

Discover a series of children’s books

That Inspire & Educate - Wet Season Books.

 
 
 

  • Author - Cate Storey

  • illustrations - Sarah Matsuda

  • Celebrating australia’s biodiversity.

 
Quoll walking across a log at night time painted by Sarah Matsuda.

“Young quolls go for their first hunt alone..”

Snuggled Away

 
 
Bilby and baby in the red earth landscape with a moon in the sky painted by Sarah Matsuda.

Lyrical rhyming combined with full page illustrations..

Snuggled Away

 
“We protect and treasure what we are familiar with and what we know and understand.”
— Cate Storey, Founder of Wet Season Books

Wet Season Books believes that children should grow up connected to their landscape, knowing what wildlife and fauna are indemic to their area.

Sarah Matsuda has illustrated several children’s books celebrating the Australian landscape, it’s animals and insects. Careful attention has been paid to the scientific accuracy of each animal and its habitat, so that each book is a learning experience as well as one of wonderment and beauty.

Our first offerings “Snuggled Away” and “The Perfect Hollow” are now available.

You can learn more by visiting the Wet Seasons Books website, or join Sarah’s Mailing list ⬇ to hear about book events!

 

Rachel Tal Jagoda

“A must gift for all

children 💗”

An inside page of Children's Book Snuggled Away with circular images of Australian Animals and their scientific names. A curling vine sits alongside.
Snuggled Away Children's Book inside page showing a page of Did You Know Facts. A curling vine sits alongside.
 
 

“Snuggled Away”

Our first offering from Wet Season Books is available now!

Written by Cate Storey & Illustrated by Sarah Matsuda.

Snuggled Away is a richly visual, rhyming story that explores the habits of Australia’s nocturnal animals. As you go to sleep, animals all around Australia are busy caring for young and searching for food.

Fun facts follow the main story and both children and parents can learn from the pictorial catalogue of the featured animals, accompanied by their scientific and common names at the back of the book.

 
 
 
Snuggled Away Children's Book Front Cover with quoll, phascogale, bilby, sugar glider, frogs, honey possum and moths around a blue shape of Australia with a yellow moon. Yellow leaves rest in front.
Artist Sarah Matsuda smiles in profile as she holds up some pencil sketches of illustrations at her desk.

Join the fun!

Watch Illustrator Sarah Matsuda and author Cate Storey in loads of laughs as they create a promo for Wet Season Books!

Illustrator Sarah Matsuda and author Cate Storey hold a copy of The Perfect Hollow with a greater glider on the cover and pink blossoms. They are both smiling. There are trees and grass in the background.
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 Fine Art Prints from Snuggled Away

Watch the making of an illustration for “The Perfect Hollow” in this short reel! 🐝

 
Greater glider curled up in a tree hollow cover of the book The Perfect Hollow. There are branches of pink eucalyptus blossoms on the sides.
Quick View
The Perfect Hollow - Children's Picture Book
$30.00

Totes & Bags Inspired by the Books!

Cotton tote bag with a print of an owl and chicks inside a hollow and a greater glider and text above saying "Gliding Through My Day." The bag is resting on a grey couch with orange cushions.
Gliding Through My Day Tote
$30.00
A mug with a blue handle and interior. On the side is the face of a Greater Glider. Behind the mug are some books and plants.
Gliding Into My Day Mug
$20.00
A cotton tote bag with a print of Australian animals and banksia flowers against a blue background and the text "Totes Into Nature." There is a plant in the background.
Totes into Nature Tote
$30.00
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A black and white outline drawing of two Regent Honey Eater birds with gum blossoms.
A black and white outline drawing of a greater glider flying towards a tree with a powerful owl and chicks in a hollow.
A black and white outline drawing of a tree with nocturnal animals including a powerful owl, flying fox, possums, frog and some coloured pencils in the background.
A black and white outline drawing of a greater glider.

Enjoy a FREE colouring download of three illustrations of Australian flora and fauna including nocturnal animals and endangered animals: Greater glider, powerful owl, regent honey eater and others.

Hand drawn by artist Sarah Matsuda, these can be used in conjunction with our Children’s Picture Books.

Please feel free to make copies for non-commercial use (not for re-sale) in schools, kindys, daycares and other centres.

 

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Artists Sarah Matsuda and her Mother Robyn Bauer give a talk in front of Robyn's big charcoal trees.