We have been busy adding new titles to the Reading Australia list, along with useful new lesson plans for classroom teachers, and fascinating essays of real interest to secondary/tertiary teachers and avid readers too.
We have expanded our Children’s Books category by adding 31 new books to the site. The first 10 titles on this list have been selected to be accompanied by helpful teacher resources mapped to the National Curriculum. We’ll let you know when those teacher resources are ready to be accessed! In the meantime, be sure to check out:
All Through the Year written by Jane Godwin and illustrated by Anna Walker
Banjo and Ruby Red written by Libby Gleeson and illustrated by Freya Blackwood
Crocodile Beat written by Gail Jorgensen and illustrated by Patricia Mullins
My Two Blankets written by Irena Kobald and illustrated by Freya Blackwood
One Dragon’s Dream by Peter Pavey
Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley by Aaron Blabey
The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base
The Peasant Prince written by Li Cunxin and illustrated by Anne Spudvilas
The Terrible Plop written by Ursula Dubosarsky and illustrated by Andrew Joyner
Way Home written by Libby Hathorn and illustrated by Gregory Rogers
A Year on Our Farm written by Penny Matthews and illustrated by Andrew McLean
Bully on the Bus by Kathryn Apel
DragonQuest written by Allan Baillie and illustrated by Wayne Harris
For All Creatures written by Glenda Millard and illustrated by Rebecca Cool
I Am Jack written by Susanne Gervay and illustrated by Cathy Wilcox
Mum Goes to Work written by Libby Gleeson and illustrated by Leila Rudge
Old Pig written by Margaret Wild and illustrated by Ron Brooks
Other Brother by Simon French
Our Baby written by Margaret Wild and illustrated by Karen Blair
Pearl verses the World by written by Sally Murphy and illustrated by Heather Potter
Peggy by Anna Walker
Pennies for Hitler by Jackie French
The Butterfly written by Roger Vaughan Carr and illustrated by Ann James
The Coat written by Julie Hunt and illustrated by Ron Brooks
The Family Hour in Australia written by Tai Snaith
The Naming of Tishkin Silk written by Glenda Millard and illustrated by Caroline Magerl
The Red Tree by Shaun Tan
The Terrible Suitcase written by Emma Allen and illustrated by Freya Blackwood
The Waterhole by Graeme Base
Vanilla Ice Cream by Bob Graham
Violet Mackerel’s Brilliant Plot written by Anna Branford and illustrated by Sarah Davis
We’ve also added 9 more teacher resources across secondary school age titles, including:
A Mother’s Disgrace by Robert Dessaix
For The Term Of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
Grace by Robert Drewe
Hotel Sorrento by Hannie Rayson
Collected Stories by Janette Turner Hospital
Dimboola by Jack Hibberd
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
The Gathering by Isobelle Carmody
Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita
And to please secondary and tertiary teachers, along with avid readers who love to delve deeply into the themes of a work, we’ve recently uploaded 4 new essays to the site. These include:
Café Scheherazade by Arnold Zable – Essay by Angelo Loukakis (Secondary)
Speaking in Tongues by Andrew Bovell – Essay by Melissa Reeves (Secondary)
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright – Essay by Meera Atkinson (Tertiary)
The Chapel Perilous by Dorothy Hewett – Essay by Noëlle Janaczewska (Tertiary)
It’s also worth noting that all book titles on the Reading Australia site have a ‘Buy the Book’ link, where you can easily buy the books you’d love to own.
Be sure to visit the Reading Australia site regularly to discover further new additions to our book list as we introduce them, along with more new resources for you to use and explore.