Books & Learning Packs

The individual book from the In Search of … series.

ISBN 0 9581625 8 1

Shortlisted for The Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing for 2003.

This resource aligns with the Australian Curriculum : History  for Year 3. It may also be used within the Australian Curriculum : English [Literature Strand] for Years 1-3 in the Big Book format.

• Primary Teaching and Learning Package
  Published March 2003
  Author - Mary Small
  Illustrator - Ester Kasepuu
  Paperback with celloglaze cover and celloglaze pages; 32 pp excluding cover; Big Book/Portrait; Colour illustrations every page
• Includes:
  A teachers’ manual on CD-ROM written by Tracey Linnane, Early Childhood Consultant;
  The narrated story -- Simpson and Duffy on CD; and
  A set of 4 colour posters telling the Simpson and Duffy story using selected text and illustrations from the book.
  6 x Simpson and Duffy Shelf books

The Saga of the Australian Light Horse in WW1

This resource aligns with the Australian Curriculum: History for Year 9.

Author: Ian Jones

ISBN: 987-0-9757123-8-2

Page size: 232mm wide x 223mm deep

No of pages: 224

Binding: clothbound  with dust cover and bookmark
Full colour

  Includes: 

• 120 AWM images + 70 images from private collections
• Maps
• Colour patches and Order of Battle
• Light Horse Timeline
• Bibliography
• Index

By Matt Anderson

This resource aligns with the Australian  Curriculum : History for Years 3 and 6 as well as the historical context component in the Australian Curriculum : English [Literature Strand]for Year 5.

Each letter of the alphabet is used to represent an ANZAC related theme (e.g. W is for War Memorial).

Suit middle primary - lower secondary.
2nd Ed (revised) - ISBN  978-0-9804480-2-3
Paperback with celloglaze cover 26 pp excluding cover; B5 size; full colour

The individual book from the In Search of … series.

ISBN 0 9580273 0 7

The individual book from the In Search of … series.

ISBN 0 9581625 9 X

This resource aligns with the Australian Curriculum: History for Year 10 . It also fits perfectly into developing the skill of Inquiry Based Learning from Years 6-9.

A Teaching and Learning Package for Upper Primary/Lower Secondary Students.

The 5 books provide resources to help students explore aspects of the life and Australians' experiences of WW1 through evidence from the time. 

The approach of the books reflects a commitment to an inquiry approach to learning -- the conviction that students learn best by doing. Includes a CD-ROM with 5 interactives for teachers to use in conjunction with the printed books and online support material on the ADCC website www.anzacday.org.au

Written for upper primary/lower secondary.

ISBN 0-9757123-4-9
Published 2005
Produced for the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland by Ryebuck Media Pty Ltd.

An adventure novel set during the First World War in France.

This resource aligns with the historical , cultural and differing viewpoints in a text listed in the Australian Curriculum : English [Literature Strand] for Years 6-9.

Written by Ian Jones. 56 pages text only. Retail price $8.80 Size A5 Lucien is 16 and in love. To impress his beloved Marie-Claude he sets out with a horse and cart to rescue an abandoned crop from a First World War battlefield in France. A young Australian soldier, Percy, becomes his ally in this mad quest and they share an encounter with the legendary German fighter ace, The Red Baron. For all of them – Lucien, Marie-Claude, Percy, even for The Red Baron – no other day will ever change their lives as much.

Suitable for upper primary to lower secondary. New release November 2009. ISBN 9780980448016

A picture book story of John Simpson Kirkpatrick and his heroic deeds using a donkey at Gallipoli (a revised edition of the 14 page 1989 version which is now out of print).

Larger print - emphasis on illustrations. Suit young readers.

ISBN 0-9577957-4-2
Published 2001
Author - Mary Small
Illustrator - Ester Kasepuu
Paperback with celloglaze cover; 32 pp excluding cover; B5 Portrait; Illustrations in colour

WILL BE AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2013

BLURB ABOUT THE BOOK

Jack and Abi are mates. However, when Jack finds that Abi’s forbears fought the ANZACs at Gallipoli, he becomes unsure about continuing their relationship. Only through meeting relatives on both sides and exploring accounts of the conflict is this contemporary dilemma resolved.;

This is a gentle way to introduce some important Australian history.