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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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.

News

Michael L. Printz Award 2010 
Congratulations to Libba Bray for winning the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature for her novel Going Bovine! This is the most prestigious award for YA literature in the United States so we're all thrilled for Libba to be recognised in this way.

Aurealis Award Winner 2009
Congratulations to Nathan Jurevicius who has won the 2009 Aurealis Award for Best Illustrated Book/Graphic Novel for Scarygirl, his sensational wordless story about a little girl trying to find out who she is and where she's from. 

Children's Peace Literature Award winner 2009 
Congratulations to Kate Constable whose Winter of Grace has been named joint winner of the Children's Peace Literature Award. The judges praised Winter of Grace: 'The model of respect for diverse belief systems and their adherents is a timely one in our age.'

Featured extract

Max Your Marks

Rowena Austin and Annie Hastwell

Tips from top students on conquering Year 12 - study hints and lifestyle advice from the highest-achieving students in the country.

Teacher Reference

Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature

General editor: Nicholas Jose

A landmark anthology of Australian literary writing, new in paperback, across all genres from over two centuries, this is an authoritative collection more than six years in the making, providing a window onto Australian culture.

What's New?

Lord Sunday

Garth Nix

The stunning, unmissable conclusion to the blockbuster Keys to the Kingdom series.

And Picasso Painted Guernica

Alain Serres

A biography of both an epoch-making artist and a unique painting that still resonates with the outrage of people around the world.

Look See, Look at Me

Leonie Norrington

A delightful celebration of outback family life in an Aboriginal community.

About a Girl

Joanne Horniman

A spellbinding love story between two young women that explores the tender moments that pull them together and the secrets that push them apart.

Mummies

Paul Harrison

Find out everything you ever wanted to know (and some things you didn't!) about these fascinating artifacts from the past.