Author(s): Cate Storey; Sarah Matsuda (Illustrator)

Environmental Themes

Snuggled Away is a richly visual, rhyming story that explores the habits of Australia's nocturnal animals. As children go to sleep, animals all around Australia are busy caring for young and searching for food. This beautifully illustrated children's book about Australian wildlife features: ringtail possums, sugar gliders, powerful owls, carpet pythons, pygmy possums, bettongs, wombats, bandicoots, phascogales, marsh frogs and tree frogs, honey possums, bush-stone curlews, pademelons, quolls and bilbies. Including 34 full page illustrations, this book is perfect for budding nature explorers. While making an attractive light-hearted bedtime story, Snuggled Away is gently educational, covering both well-known Australian animals and less familiar wildlife. 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.