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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The e-newsletter is a monthly email featuring information on new titles, teachers' notes, competitions, giveaways and more. Subscribe now.

Children's Book Council of Australia Awards

We are thrilled to announce that Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp by Odo Hirsch has been named an Honour Book in the 2008 CBCA Book of the Year awards, Younger Readers category.

Coraline by Neil Gaiman being made into a feature film!

An animated feature film of Coraline is currently in production and due for release next year.

The cast of actors voicing the characters includes Dakota Fanning at Coraline, Teri Hatcher as Coraline's mother and Other Mother, Jennifer Saunders as Miss Forcible and Dawn French as Miss Spink.  

You can view a clip and trailer from the movie on the film company's website. 

And be sure to have a look at the Coraline graphic novel, in stores now.