Children’s books inspired by the Australian landscape. 

The Perfect Hollow: A Greater Glider Story

Greater Gliders are uniquely Australian, gum-leaf-eating, fluffy, gliding marsupials that live in hollows in tall eucalypt trees. This fun, rhyming story follows one Greater Glider’s search for the perfect hollow, with some scary, hairy and amusing adventures along the way.

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

Greater Glider Clinging on to branch, illustration from the Perfect Hollow: A Greater Glider Story, children’s picture book Australian wildlife, native animals, author, Cate Story, illustrator, Sarah Matsuda

Australia - a treasure-trove of biodiversity

As Australians, we are the custodians of a vital portion of the world’s biodiversity. Almost ninety percent of our mammals and over ninety percent of our reptiles, frogs and flowering plants are endemic to the Australian continent. This means that they are found nowhere else on earth!

This staggering biodiversity is supported by varied habitats: flower-filled heath, grasslands, wetlands, giant kelp forests, coral reefs, rainforest and delicate desert ecosystems. 

Honey Possum on banksia flowers, Clinging on to branch, illustration from Snuggled Away, children’s picture book Australian wildlife, native animals, author, Cate Story, illustrator, Sarah Matsuda

Environmental Literacy

We protect and treasure what we are familiar with and what we know and understand. 

Knowing your local animals: what’s common in your area, what’s threatened and sadly what has recently disappeared is an important component of environmental literacy.

Child holding magnifying glass and looking at butterfly, illustration from Snuggled Away, children’s picture book Australian wildlife, native animals, author, Cate Story, illustrator, Sarah Matsuda

Storytelling cultivates connections with the natural world.

Wet Season Books believes that children should grow up connected to their landscape, with an understanding of how Australian environments change across seasons, cycles of fire, long dry periods and monsoon.  We want to grow curious, inspired and passionate children that are driven to discover Australia’s flora and fauna and fight to protect them.