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.

Subscribe to our teachers' e-newsletters

Sign up for one of our teachers’ e-newsletters to keep up-to-date with new fiction and non-fiction books for primary and secondary schools.

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

Author posters

We have added a new feature to our website to help busy teachers and librarians: free downloadable author posters!  If you have an author visiting your school, or are decorating your library or classroom wall you can download our author posters (in colour or black & white) ready to hang on your walls. 

We will be adding new posters so do check back often to see who's in the gallery.  If there is an author you are interested in who isn't featured, send us an email with your suggestion of who you would like to see a poster of.

The 2009 Ditmar Awards for Australian Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
We are thrilled beyond words that two of our very favourite authors have taken out these awards:
Margo Langan for Tender Morsels (Best Novel award)
Shaun Tan for Tales from Outer Suburbia (Best Artwork award)

The Speech Pathology Book of the Year 2009
We are very excited that four of our books have been shortlisted for these awards:
Young Children (approx 2-5 years)
I'm Still Awake, Still by Elizabeth Honey 
Tiny by Steve Otton & Jennifer Castles
Upper Primary (approx 8-12 years)
Mahtab's Story by Libby Gleeson
Pip: the story of Olive by Kim Kane
Each award is based on the book’s appeal to children, interactive quality and ability to assist speech pathologists in communication and literacy development.  

The Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature 2009
The Big Picture Book of Environments by John Long was shortlisted in the Non-Fiction category and Chelonia Green, Champion of Turtles by Christobel Mattingley and The Dog that Dumped on my Doona by Barry Jonsberg were shortlisted in the Fiction category. Congratulations all!