We started this month with an exciting milestone : Our debut picture book series Willow the Wonderer has gone into yet another reprint. This marks the third printing for our first book in the series, Willow the Wonderer and the second for Honey Time . At over 2 metric tonnes, this will be our biggest print-run yet and yes, includes our upcoming new title - but more on that later... Right now we are nervously eyeing the last few boxes of the books we have on-hand and hoping

We forget our baby's birthday ... Willow the Wonderer turned two in June! Hard to believe that two years have flown by since we held the first hardcopy of Willow the Wonderer in our hands - and posed for this daggy photo to mark the occasion... I think this was the 'high-point' of our COVID fashion! Darren and Reeta holding their first Willow the Wonderer picture book! Willow the Wonderer picture books have since found their way to homes all across Australia . It's been wond

We have some wonderful news! It is now even easier to share our very beautiful 'Willow the Wonderer' picture books, character plush toy...

Wise As Stories is unique amongst publishers world wide for a number of reasons, the most important of which is that we are creating stories that plant seeds of wisdom and knowledge. It is why Darren and I started Wise As Stories and produced and published Willow the Wonderer picture book series - and it's what keep us going. In this blog I wanted to share with you the backstory to this mission we've taken on. I've shared this in past blogs (here's the link to another ) b

It's a momentous day: Darren has started working on the very last spread for the third Willow the Wonderer picture book. The end is in sight! The picture book creation process Developing each picture book is easily six months of full time effort, involving writing, editing, book design, illustrating , typesetting, and then finally getting everything together for print production. So when we reach milestones like this, it is very much a cause for celebration! (And in case any

A beautiful story time of Willow the Wonderer with Donkey Dave and his donkeys!

Willow the Wonderer picture books have now sold and been warmly embraced bu readers all over Australia!

I may be a tad biased, but I think Willow the Wondere r is the cutest donkey (wise ass) around town. So, of course we had to follow-up our beautiful picture books with a gorgeous character plush toy of little Willow. Last July we released our very first design. Hundreds of Willow plush toys have since found their way into homes all across Australia so I thought I'd share some of the work that went on behind the scenes to develop our first Willow plush toy. It was a labour o

As announced a few days ago, we have made our very first language rights sale. (This means that we as the creators of the Willow the...