Welcome to the teachers' resources site

These pages are especially for teachers and librarians to assist you in the promotion and teaching of literature in schools and to help foster a love of good books and reading in children.  Novels, non-fiction, class set suggestions, teacher reference books: you'll find them all here.

It is our aim to help you in the classroom so in this section you will find teachers' notes for over 50 of our books, book reviews by other teachers, book-linked activities for the classroom and lots more.

Browse our books for children and teenagers.

Browse our education books.

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Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature  

On World Environment Day (5 June) Going Bush, by Nadia Wheatley and Ken Searle, was named the winner of the Wilderness Society Environmental Award for Children's Literature.
This award was established by The Wilderness Society in 1994 to promote a sense of caring and responsibility for the environment through quality Australian children's books.


Children's Book Council of Australia Shortlist announced!

The Children's Book Council of Australia announced its shortlist of titles on 1 April. We are thrilled to be able to say that the following Allen & Unwin books have been shortlisted for the 2008 Book of the Year awards:

Older Readers:
Love Like Water by Meme McDonald

Younger Readers:
Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp by Odo Hirsch

Picture Book:

The Island by Armin Greder

The complete shortlist can be found on the CBC website.