Curiosity, connection, and better ways to experience the world.
Fern & Atlas is an Australian travel brand inspiring curiosity, creativity and a love of exploring the world. We make companions that help you notice more, meet people and feel at home wherever you are, starting with books for curious kids and for anyone settling somewhere new.
What we make
Companions for curious travelers, at every age
Age 6-10
Explorer Series
Adults
Connect Series
Tween (ages 9-13)
Coming soon
Coming soon
Missions App
Explorer Series
Destination based travel activity books for curious kids age 6-10.
Vietnam · Portugal · Taiwan · New Zealand, Australia East Coast (coming soon)
Connect
A 90-day guide to feeling at home somewhere new.
Singapore · Sydney, London, Berlin (coming soon)
Tweens - Coming Soon
Something new for travelers aged 9 to 13.
We’re not saying much yet. Only that it’s for tweens who want the trip to be theirs, and that it’s already been on the road with us (including the fake Halloween fingernails ;-)).
Missions App
Missions and scavenger hunts for the place you’re traveling to. The clue is on the phone; everything else happens out there. Find it, count it, try it, together. Coming soon for families on the go.
The Fern & Atlas Story
Fern & Atlas started before Fern & Atlas existed - when two soon-to-be mums met at pregnancy yoga, both expecting daughters.What started as a chance meeting grew into a deep friendship. Our daughters have been best friends since before they were born, and although we now live in different cities, the friendship has only grown stronger.Along the way, we found ourselves sharing ideas, trips, experiences and a love of creating things. Fern & Atlas is the next chapter of that friendship - a way to bring together the things we love and create products that help people explore, connect and make their own memories.
FAQs
What are the Fern & Atlas Explorer books? Travel activity books for children aged 6–10, each built around one destination: Vietnam, Portugal and Taiwan, with New Zealand coming soon. Kids use them before, during and after a family trip.
Can my child start before we travel? Yes. The first pages are made to fill in at home while you plan the trip.
Do we need to visit particular places? No. Most missions work wherever you travel in that country.
Do the books need a phone or internet? No. Everything happens on paper, with a pencil and something to color with.
Are the books available in other languages? Vietnam is available in German. German editions of Portugal and Taiwan are coming soon.
What is Singapore Connect? A 90-day companion for women who have just moved to Singapore. Each week offers two simple steps, one new face and one new place, to help you make friends and feel at home.
Is Singapore Connect a journal? No. It's a companion with a concrete suggestion for every week, plus check-ins at day 30, 60 and 90.
Will there be Connect books for other cities? Sydney, London and Berlin are coming soon.
Where can I buy Fern & Atlas books? On Amazon.
Who is behind Fern & Atlas? Fern & Atlas is an Australian-based travel brand founded by Ariane Fricke and Franziska Ursenbacher.
Do you use AI to make your books? Yes, as a production tool. Every book starts from our own experience of traveling with our daughters and making a home in new places. There is still a lot of hands-on work in each one: we choose, check and refine every destination, missions and facts ourselves before it goes to print. Our illustrations come from a mix of sources, and we handselect or create every single one.
MEET THE EXPLORER SERIES
Destination-based activity books for curious kids aged 6-10 who want to do more than just see the sights.
Each book follows the Explorer Method: Get Curious before the trip, Go Notice while you're there, Make It Yours once you're home, plus something for every quiet moment in between. Missions, puzzles, drawing and journal pages turn the trip into a story your child writes themselves.
Explorer Series: Vietnam
Explorer Series: Portugal
Explorer Series: Taiwan
Explorer Series: Vietnam (German)
Explorer Series: New Zealand
Explorer Series: Australia East Coast
Explorer Series: Vietnam Travel Activity Book for Kids 6–10
I want them to remember the lanterns in Hội An, not just the hotel pool.
Explorer Series: Vietnam is a travel activity book for children aged 6–10, made by Fern & Atlas. It holds 60+ activities to use before, during and after a family trip: spotting dragons and geckos, rating a bowl of pho, collecting tickets and writing a letter to their future self. Every page starts with a prompt, so kids never face a blank page.Before the trip, it's a passport with their name in it and a map to plan the route. Once you land, it's a stack of missions: a dragon to find, a bowl of pho to rate, a word of Vietnamese to try on a market seller. Back home, it becomes the story of their trip, in their own handwriting.Over sixty activities.Inside you'll find
• Missions to spot, count, taste and visit their way through Vietnam
• "Did you notice?" pages that answer the questions kids ask on the road
• Puzzles and games for flights, cafés and quiet afternoons
• Keepsake pages and a Super Explorer certificate to bring homeWho it's for: families traveling to Vietnam with children aged 6–10. Confident readers can work through it on their own; younger explorers do well with a grown-up reading along.Perfect as a gift for: a grandchild about to fly out, a child with a birthday before the trip, or friends heading to Vietnam with kids.
$12.99 USD
Explorer Series: Portugal Travel Activity Book for Kids 6–10
I want them to look our of the tram window and actually see Portugal.
Explorer Series: Portugal is a travel activity book for children aged 6–10, made by Fern & Atlas. It holds 60+ activities to use before, during and after a family trip: spotting trams, storks, castles and roosters, trying new food, and collecting keepsakes. Every page starts with a prompt, so kids never face a blank page.Before the trip, they make the book their own. Once you're there, the missions begin: a tram to spot, a stork to look up for, a castle to find, something new to taste. Back home, it becomes the story of their trip, in their own handwriting.Over sixty activities.Inside you'll find
• Spot It missions, from trams and storks to castles and roosters
• Puzzles and games for long lunches and longer drives
• Drawing, coloring and discovery pages
• Keepsake pages and a Super Explorer certificate to bring homeWho it's for: families traveling to Portugal with children aged 6–10, whether you're in Lisbon, Porto or the Algarve.Perfect as a gift for: grandchildren before a European summer, or friends heading to Portugal with kids.
$12.99 USD
Explorer Series: Taiwan Travel Activity Book for Kids 6–10
They'll remember the bubble tea. I'd love them to remember the temple roof dragons too.
Explorer Series: Taiwan is a travel activity book for children aged 6–10, made by Fern & Atlas. It holds 60+ activities to use before, during and after a family trip: finding roof dragons on temples, trying xiaolongbao, riding the Taipei MRT like a local and writing a wish for a sky lantern. Every page starts with a prompt, so kids never face a blank page.Before the trip, it's a passport, a route map and some words of Mandarin to practice. Once you're there, the missions take over: a roof dragon to find, a soup dumpling to try, a sky-lantern wish to write. Back home, it becomes the story of their trip, in their own handwriting.Over sixty activities.Inside you'll find
• Missions to spot, count, taste and visit their way around Taiwan
• "Did you notice?" pages for the things that make kids stop and stare
• Puzzles and games for train rides and quiet afternoons
• Keepsake pages and a Super Explorer certificate to bring homeWho it's for: families traveling to Taiwan with children aged 6–10, whether you're staying in Taipei or traveling around the island.Perfect as a gift for: grandchildren about to fly to Taipei, or friends heading to Taiwan with kids.
$12.99 USD
Explorer Series: Vietnam Reiseaktivitätenbuch für Kinder von 6-10
Ich wünsche mir, dass sie sich an die Laternen in Hội An erinnern – nicht nur an den Hotelpool.
Explorer Series: Vietnam ist ein Reise- und Mitmachbuch für Kinder von 6 bis 10 Jahren, gemacht von Fern & Atlas. Über 60 Aktivitäten begleiten die Familienreise vorher, unterwegs und danach: Drachen und Geckos finden, eine Schale Pho bewerten, Tickets sammeln und einen Brief an das zukünftige Ich schreiben. Jede Seite beginnt mit einer Frage - kein Kind muss vor einem leeren Blatt sitzen.Vor der Reise kann man einen Reisepass ausfüllen und eine Karte, auf der die Reiseroute sichtbar ist. Vor Ort warten die Missionen wie z.B. einen Drachen finden, eine Schale Pho bewerten, mit einer Marktverkäuferin ein vietnamesisches Wort wechseln. Und zu Hause wird daraus die Geschichte der Reise.Über 60 Aktivitäten.Das erwartet euch
• Missionen zum Entdecken, Zählen, Probieren und Besuchen
• „Aufgepasst!“-Seiten, die Kinderfragen unterwegs beantworten
• Rätsel und Spiele für Flug, Café und ruhige Nachmittage
• Erinnerungsseiten und ein Super-Entdecker-Zertifikat für zu HauseFür wen: Familien, die mit Kindern zwischen 6 und 10 Jahren nach Vietnam reisen – und deutschsprachige Familien überall, auch im Ausland. Sichere Leser arbeiten allein, Jüngere gemeinsam mit einem Erwachsenen.Ein schönes Geschenk für: Enkelkinder vor dem Abflug, ein Kind mit Geburtstag kurz vor der Reise oder befreundete Familien, die nach Vietnam aufbrechen.
$12.99 USD
CONNECT SERIES
Companions for your first 90 days in a new city.
The hardest part of a move often comes after the boxes are unpacked. Each Connect book gives you a week-by-week plan of new faces and new places, so you can make friends, ease loneliness and start to feel at home.
Connect Series: Singapore
(1. edition)
Connect Series: Sydney
(coming soon)
Connect Series: London
(coming soon)
Connect Series: Berlin
(coming soon)
Singapore Connect: A 90-Day Companion for Expat Women
New city. Fresh start. Now what?
Singapore Connect is a 90-day companion for women who have just moved to Singapore, written by Ariane Fricke and published by Fern & Atlas. Each week offers two simple steps, one new face and one new place, plus classes, clubs, walks, maps and check-ins at day 30, 60 and 90. Settling in never starts from a blank page.
You chose this move, and most days you're glad you did. The city is buzzing, yet it can seem like everyone else already has their people.
Singapore Connect keeps you company through the first 90 days, with two simple steps each week: one new face, one new place. Little by little, they add up to a life that feels like yours.
Written by two women who have started over in a new place over 16 times across three continents.Inside you'll find
• A suggestion for every week of your first 90 days
• Ways to meet people who share your interests
• Places to get you out of the house, with maps to find your way
• Check-ins at day 30, 60 and 90, and a page for the harder daysWho it's for: women who have relocated to Singapore for their own work or a partner's. It's also for anyone who has just arrived and would like some company in those first weeks.Perfect as a gift for:a friend about to make the move, a colleague starting a Singapore posting, or yourself on the flight over.
$12.99 USD
Coming soon · Ages 9–13
Something new for tween travelers, aged 9 to 13
Something new is coming for tweens aged 9 to 13 who want a say in the trip. It's made for this age, it's built to travel, and it's already been tested on the road. Join the list to be first to see it.
Somewhere around nine, the trip changes
They still want to come. They just want it to be theirs. They have opinions on the itinerary, a camera roll they curate themselves, and zero interest in anything that looks like it's for little kids.Tweens deserve something made for them, not handed down from a younger sibling or scaled down from the grown-ups. So we made it.
What we can tell you
• It's made for ages 9 to 13, not shrunk down from something for adults or scaled up from something for little kids
• It's made to travel, and it's already been through airports, long travels and at least one set of fake Halloween fingernails
• The rest stays under wraps until it's ready
Coming soon · Join the waitlist
Scavenger hunts and missions for families, wherever you travel
Someone's reading the clue. Someone's already spotted it.
Fern & Atlas Missions is an upcoming app from Fern & Atlas, the Australian travel brand behind the Explorer Series travel activity books. It gives families destination-based missions and scavenger hunts to do together. The clue is on the phone; the finding happens out in the place you're exploring.
How it works
Tell it where you are. A city, a neighborhood, a market, a beach.
Get a mission. Find it, count it, try it, or notice something most visitors walk past.
Go find it together. One reads the clue, one spots it first, one takes the photo.
Built on the Explorer Method
Our Explorer Method already sends kids on missions: spotting, counting, tasting and noticing their way through a place. Missions takes that idea off the page and into any city, on any afternoon, wherever you're standing.
FAQ
What is Fern & Atlas Missions? An upcoming app with destination-based missions and scavenger hunts for families, from the Australian travel brand Fern & Atlas.
Who is it for? Families traveling with kids ages 6–13, and anyone who likes to explore a place properly.
Which destinations will it cover? We'll start with the destinations we already have as books.
When will it launch? People on the waitlist hear first.
How is it different from the Explorer books? The books are made for one destination and a whole trip. Missions is for picking up on the go, wherever you are that day.