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A new way to share Milly Meelyu with your little readers (and to learn alongside them!) Milly Meelyu is a new picture book by Dr Holly Bradley, translated into Badimia by Darryl Fogarty, lovingly illustrated by Corinne Fogarty and filled with themes of family, home and caring for Country. To help you bring the book […]

Learn to fear less, one small step at a time. Enjoy this storytime with Kelly Canby as she reads her new picture book, Fearless. Bea Ware is afraid of everything – from shadows to ladders to trampolines, she is in a constant state of anxiety and trepidation. Her friend, Annie Venture, seems completely carefree, skipping […]

These school holidays, practise fearing less in both big and small ways. In Kelly Canby’s new picture book, Fearless, Bea Ware is afraid of everything – from shadows to ladders to trampolines, she is in a constant state of anxiety and trepidation. Her friend, Annie Venture, seems completely carefree, skipping through life without a single […]

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'Try One New Thing Challenge'

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In Annie and Maeve Are Definitely Not Friends by Olivia Muscat, Maeve loves using her fancy-pants dictionary to look up words. In this activity sheet for ages 12+, students solve the clues and then search for words. For more teaching ideas, why not try: Download our free teaching notes for more ideas on how to […]

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'Annie and Maeve Word Search'

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Rather than focusing on loud or dramatic acts of bravery, Fearless by Kelly Canby explores quieter, everyday moments of courage, such as trying something new or facing uncertainty. In this new, free teaching activity, students can reflect on two things that they fear, and two ways that they can become less fearful of them. Just […]

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'What can I fear less?'

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Bring the special anniversary edition of In Flanders Fields by Norman Jorgensen and Brian Harrison-Lever to life with a hands-on activity that explores how soldiers stayed safe in the trenches. Students will use two empty milk cartons and two small mirrors to create their own periscopes and understand how they work. With free teaching notes […]

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'Make Your Own Periscope Activity'

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Bring the new edition of Lighthouse Girl by Dianne Wolfer (illustrated by Brian Simmonds) to life with a hands-on activity inspired by the way people once communicated across distances: semaphore. In this free activity, students will make their own pair of flags, learn the semaphore alphabet and use it to send messages to a partner. […]

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'Semaphoric Alphabet - Lighthouse Girl Activity'

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In the picture book Catalpa by Mike Lefroy and Joy Lefroy, a daring rescue mission is set in motion to free a group of Irish political prisoners from Fremantle Prison. Enter the high seas of the 1870s and learn the meaning behind words like ‘scrimshaw’, ‘gaol’ and ‘whaleboat’. Where does each word connect to the […]

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'Find the Words - Catalpa Activity Sheet'

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Combine literacy with fine motor skills in this engaging maze activity sheet! In Milly Meelyu by Holly Bradley, Darryl Fogarty and Corinne Fogarty, Milly Meelyu and her family search for a new home while avoiding the threat of predators. In this free, printable maze, young students will help Milly Meelyu navigate the journey towards a […]

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'Help Milly Meelyu Find a New Home'

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Dive into Noongar language learning with this engaging matching activity based on Kep Barna by Jayden Boundry and Tyrown Waigana. Students match the water creatures with their Noongar names, discovering traditional language and bringing this vibrant board book to life. You can also download a free classroom poster featuring several kep barna and boodja barna […]

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'Match the Kep Barna'

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Bring reflection and cultural awareness into the classroom with a teaching activity inspired by the new edition of My Country by Ezekiel Kwaymullina and Sally Morgan. In the activity sheet What do you do in your country?, invite youngsters to reflect on their culture unique to their country, while encouraging empathy and awareness of others.

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'What do you do in your country?'

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Looking for a rich springboard into text types and visual literacy? A New World Rises: Tales of a LEGO® Future is loaded with engaging and interactive text types that invite students to explore how writers shape meaning across different formats. Author Cristy Burne, who wrote the text for A New World Rises based on the […]

A foal is born at midnight, on the homestead side of the river. Coal black. Star ablaze. Moonlight in her eyes … Let imaginations run wild with this new activity sheet based on Midnight by Mark Greenwood and Frané Lessac. Midnight is a unique-looking horse, and students are invited to create their own horse by […]

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'Design your horse'

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Bring self-love and reflection into the classroom with a teaching activity inspired by the new edition of I Love Me by Sally Morgan and Ambelin Kwaymullina. In the I Love Me self-portrait, have students draw a picture of themselves and label everything they love about being who they are and what makes them unique. Continue […]

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'I Love Me Self-Portrait'

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One Wrong Turn by Chenée Marrapodi has been shortlisted for a West Australian Young Readers’ Book Award in the middle grade category. The West Australian Young Readers’ Book Award is a children’s choice book award that is open to all students up to Year 12 in WA across the categories of Picture Books, Younger Readers, […]

Get kids drawing and giggling with a new hands-on activity inspired by the new picture book The Midnight Chew by Sally Morgan and Karen Blair. This activity will have kids imagining the stinky things dogs like Boofa Boy Jones and Skippy Gillespie might find delightful. Draw the objects, label and colour them, then describe the […]

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'Find the neighbourhood smells'

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Dive into breathtaking Ningaloo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to a diverse range of biodiversity. In these teaching activities, inspired by the captivating Ningaloo by Tim Winton and Cindy Lane, invite your students to become marine scientists. Investigate the fascinating creatures that call Ningaloo home, and spark a conversation about conservation and ocean […]

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'Who lives in Ningaloo?'

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Step into the future and think visually in two new free teaching activities inspired by A New World Rises by Alex Towler, Jackson Harvey and Cristy Burne! In activity one, students can draw their own futuristic scene with bricks and minifigures, complete with an eye-catching headline worthy of the Post-Human Times. In activity two, have […]

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'A New World Rises activity sheets'

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Pygmy Possum is so small! All the other animals think she’s too little to go out on her own in Katie Stewart’s new picture book, You’re Too Little. In this new activity, students will research the pygmy possum and other Australian animals, document their sizes, then colour them in. Free teaching notes are also available […]

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'How big am I?'

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CHUGGA-SPLOOSH! Mighty mining machines make lots of noise. In this activity, inspired by Crunch! Kaboom!, students match the sound to the machine. Check out our free teaching notes for more activities like:

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'What's that sound?'

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Chickensaurus is the fourth children’s graphic novel in the S.Tinker Inc. series and available now! The series follows the world’s foremost inventor under twelve, Sally Tinker, as she navigates through some sticky situations with her friends and baby brother by her side. The Escape the Hedge Maze activity sheet is a great resource for improving […]

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'Escape the hedge maze!'

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Could you imagine being stuck underground in a dark, flooded mine? Well, this was the reality for one Bonnie Vale miner in 1907. Trapped! is a true story by Julia Lawrinson, told entirely in verse and through the eyes of the trapped miner’s son, Joe. In this activity based on the book, have students think […]

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'What are your essentials?'

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In this latest board book from the dynamic author-illustrator duo of Jayden Boundry and Tyrown Waigana, Boodja Barna, is a fully illustrated guide to Aussie animals. Have students test their knowledge of the Noongar names for land creatures in our free teaching activity. Fill in the blanks and colour in the gorgeous native animals. Don’t […]

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'Colour in the boodja barna'

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The Hope Diamond may have brought misfortune to anyone who possessed it, but luckily that isn’t the case with our new activity sheets! Based on the engaging and mysterious tale in The Deadly Diamond by Mark Greenwood, students can put their geography skills to the test and track the diamond’s journey around the world. In […]

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'Map the journey of the Hope Diamond'

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