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 60 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.

We also have a multimedia page where you can watch interviews with some of our authors and view book trailers.  It's a great way to gain extra insight into a book or author and motivate students.


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A tantalising taste of what's coming in 2009 . . .

There is a breathtaking range of extraordinary new fiction for young people coming in 2009.

Here is just a taste of what is on its way. Enjoy.

News


Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist will soon be a movie

We are very excited that one of our favourite recent Young Adult novels has been made into a Hollywood movie!
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan is a hip and funny New York love story of two teenagers who fall into an accidental first date of music, laughter, heartache, confusion, passion and taxi driver wisdom. The movie stars Michael Cera (Juno) and will be in Australian and New Zealand cinemas in March 2009.


Featured extract

Roland Harvey's Big Book of Christmas

Roland Harvey

With stories about how Christmas is celebrated in Australia and all round the world, recipes for Christmas treats, and fabulous ideas for handmade gifts, this is the perfect Christmas book for every classroom and library.

Teacher Reference

Sing Nowell (Music and CD edition)

Jan Betts

A collection of all the favourite classic carols, specially arranged for children to sing.

What's New?

Somebody's Crying

Maureen McCarthy

A murder in a country town is the backdrop for the story of three young people, Alice, Tom and Jonty, who are bound together because Alice's mother was murdered and Jonty is the suspect.

Cassie (Girlfriend Fiction 8)

Barry Jonsberg

Holly Holley isn’t prepared for her cousin Cassie who has cerebral palsy, but when the coolest girl in school takes Holly under her wing it looks like at least her plans for self-improvement are on track...or are they?

Chains

Laurie Halse Anderson

Isabel is a young slave girl who is sold to a couple embroiled in the day's political affairs and taken to New York.

Rapunzel's Revenge

Dean Hale

This swashbuckling and hilarious graphic novel presents a twist on the classic tale.

Freckleface Strawberry

Julianne Moore

This charming book is a bright and humorous look at the way children deal with being different, and it is also a useful resource for any study on bullying.