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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, books for preschoolers: 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 70 of our books, book reviews by other teachers, book-linked activities for the classroom and lots more.

View our Best Books for Schools 2013 (January-July) brochure

Browse our books for children.

Browse our books for 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

One of the many features on our website to help busy teachers and librarians is 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 are always 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

June sees the launch of Through My Eyes, a series of books about children living in contemporary conflict zones which we believe has enormous potential for all students between the ages of 11-14 years in Australia and New Zealand. The series begins with Shahana (see below), and will be followed by Amina (set in Somalia) in September, and more titles in 2014.
 
Also this month we have Australians All by the much loved and respected Nadia Wheatley. Do take time to examine this history book with a difference - it tells the story of our continent through the eyes of children and adolescents - as it is a ground-breaking work that will an invaluable reference for upper primary and secondary students for many years to come.

Featured extract

Spotlight:

Shahana: Through My Eyes

by Rosanne Hawke, edited by Lyn White

Shahana lives alone with her young brother in the shadow of the Line of Control, the border that divides Kashmir in two. When she finds a boy lying unconscious near the border who is from across the Line of Control, she takes a terrible risk by sheltering him. An unforgettable novel about one young girl in war-torn Kashmir.

What's New?

Spotlight:

Australians All

by Nadia Wheatley and Ken Searle

A lavish and comprehensive new history of Australia told through the lives of young people, from the Ice Age to the Apology.

Spotlight:

The Looming Lamplight: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno (and Alberta) Bk 2

by Ursula Dubosarsky and Terry Denton

Coco Carlomagno, the well-respected (if somewhat easily startled) Chief of Police, has run into an unusually difficult problem. Can his clever cousin Alberta to help him solve this puzzle?

Spotlight:

On the Day You Were Born

by Margaret Wild, illustrated by Ron Brooks

This beautiful picture book from the acclaimed partnership of Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks is a glorious celebration of family and new life.

Spotlight:

Cartboy and the Time Capsule

by L.A. Campbell

A laugh-out-loud debut novel about sixth grader Hal Rifkind - unfortunately nicknamed 'Cartboy' - and his horribly historic, hilarious year.