Driver Camel's Rainy Day
COMING SOON!

The rollicking tale of Australia's most iconic train, The Ghan, as Driver Camel and all the passengers get carried away in some bad weather!"Don't worry!"With a little help from the other Animal Drivers can they get themselves back on track?Driver Camel's Rainy Day is the only—and the official—Ghan children's book. It will be available exclusively through the Journey Beyond online gift shop, in-store at the Adelaide Parklands Terminal, on-board The Ghan, and in select book stores.Coming soon!

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Redwood Books is an Adelaide based, family publisher of children’s books.We want to bring new light and colour to the folk tales, myths, and music we were raised on as children and tell our own stories in the mix.To our mind, the most important part of children’s stories is the element of ripping yarn. We aim to tell stories that are funny, a bit silly, but most of all entertaining.

Redwood Books began in 2023 quite by accident when my partner, Chelsea, and I were travelling around Australia.We had been painting children's books for friends who had just had kids. We finished those books and were trying to think of new projects.

I love train travel. That love was born of a number of years working as an attendant on The Ghan and Indian Pacific.But my love is nothing compared to that of every child I have ever met. There is not a kid I know that isn’t captivated by the hurtling, hulking mass of a locomotive and the carriages it tows filled with people.But for all the children's books written about trains, there was not one about The Ghan or Indian Pacific. Australia's two most iconic trains, travelling the full length and breadth of the country, bursting with unfulfilled narrative potential.I had once been asked by chef on The Ghan to tell a story. Just for fun. I made up a shaggy dog story about a brumby and a camel fighting for the right to be the emblem of The Ghan. Years later, in a West Australian campsite under massive karri trees, I did a rejig and the first draft of Driver Camel’s Rainy Day was written.

Two years on, in 2025, and working on that story with my sister Eiler, we realised that many of the other projects we were pursuing independently could benefit from a small amount of collective action.
Our plan is to build Redwood Books into a sturdy little house filled with good stories and beautiful illustrations.Louis Brennan Pitt