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.

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News

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.

Coming in June!
Superior Saturday (Book 6 in The Keys to the Kingdom series) by Garth Nix
The sixth book in Garth Nix's blockbuster fantasy-adventure series, The Keys to the Kingdom. Arthur Penhaligon has defeated five of the seven Trustees, but his week is getting worse and worse. Can he stop Saturday's bid for ultimate power?
Order your copy from your bookseller now!

Featured extract

Mahtab's Story

Libby Gleeson

Mahtab and her family are forced to leave their home in Herat and journey secretly through the rocky mountains to Pakistan and from there to faraway Australia. Months go by, months of waiting, months of dread. Will they ever be reunited with their father, will they ever find a home?

An important, eye-opening book.' Deborah Ellis

Teacher Reference

Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature

Edited by Anita Heiss and Peter Minter

A groundbreaking collection of work from some of the great Australian Aboriginal writers, the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature offers a rich panorama of over 200 years of Aboriginal culture, history and life.

What's New?

Mistik Lake

Martha Brooks

Odella is haunted by family secrets. Before she was born, her mother was the only survivor when a car full of teenagers plunged through ice to the bottom of Mistik Lake. Years later, when her mother runs off with a man, Odella is left to hold her fragile family together.

I'm Still Awake, Still!

Elizabeth Honey and Sue Johnson

At bedtime Fiddy is still wide awake. Join him in this warm and wondrous story. The book comes with a CD of eight songs that all relate to the story. Listen to the story with the songs or play them on their own when it's time to quieten down and settle.