Books & Learning Packs

Written by well known children's book author Krista Bell and illustrated by the wonderful paper images of David Miller, this book is a must for all lower primary school children's bookshelves.

This resource aligns with the Australian Curriculum : History for Years 1 and 2 and Australian Curriculum: English [Literature Strand ]for Years 1 and 2.

Harley McNamara has bred Lofty to be a champion racing pigeon. Now the army needs strong messenger pigeons to help win the war and Harley's dreams are shattered when Lofty is taken from him. Will Lofty ever come home?

This entrancing little fiction based on fact story highlights how, in Australia between 1942 and 1943 during the Second World War, home breeders donated more than 13 000 baby pigeons ('squeakers') to the army to be trained as messenger pigeons. Several Australian birds were awarded the Dickins Medal for bravery.

Weight: 120g
ISBN - 978 - 0 - 9804480 - 7 - 8
Pages 32 pages
Paperback

An illustrated and pictorial tribute to Australia's tracker dogs in the Vietnam War. (Read more.)

This resource aligns with Australian Curriculum : History for Years 6 and 10 as well as the historical context required in the literature strand of the Australian Curriculum : English Years 5-10.

seek! is a 48-page tribute to the Australian tracker dogs that served in the Vietnam War.
In full colour with more than 110 photos (black & white as well as colour)—plus maps and illustrations—this book gives an overview of the Vietnam War and the service of the Australians who were deployed there; and the role of the eleven dogs that were part of the combat tracker teams that operated during Australia’s commitment from 1966 to 1972.

Authors: Di Burke and Mary Small

Suitable 10 yo to adult. -- ISBN 978-0-9804480-6-1

The individual book from the In Search of … series.

ISBN 0 9580273 0 7

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.

Paperback with celloglaze cover 26 pp excluding cover; Full Colour

Package includes

• 1 Big Book 490mm x 340mm colour
• Teachers Manual & classroom activities on CD Rom
• 6 x A is for ANZAC Shelf Books (B5)

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

The individual book from the In Search of … series.

ISBN 0 9581625 7 3

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

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

It is also a useful tool when teaching  research skills at any upper school level.

This book is the definitive guide to researching the military history of a WW1 Digger. In a step by step approach, author Graeme Hosken provides the researcher with all of the information and tools necessary to complete the task.

80 pages plus cover

ISBN 0-9580273-2-3 

Published October 2002

Author Graeme Hosken

Published by ADCC Publications

The individual book from the In Search of … series.

ISBN 0 9581625 8 1

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

It is part of a range of communication forms that can be used and explored at other year levels as well.

A Teaching and Learning pack for Primary Schools Contents: 36 individual photographic images of WW1 (A4 mounted on cardboard) in six categories and 36 teachers' resource cards (A5 mounted on cardboard)- one for each image card. (Suggestions on how to use the pack can be found on the back of each of these cards).

Packaged in a purpose designed satchel-style box.

ISBN 0 9757123 6 5

Author-Tracey Linnane;

Published 2006.

Under the categories Arrival and living conditions; Transport and supplies; Medical aid;
Communications; Leisure and entertainment; and Effects of war, teachers are offered a wide variety of classroom activities using the photographs as the stimuli.
Presented in a specially designed satchel style box.

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

A comprehensive account of WW1 and Australians’ battlefield experiences at Gallipoli, on the Western Front and in the Middle East. Includes the desert campaigns fought by the lighthorsemen and the contribution of the Navy, Flying Corps and the nurses.
Suit middle primary to lower secondary.

ISBN 0 9757123 5 7
Author-Matt Anderson
Second edition
Published 2006
Paperback; 40 pp
B5 Portrait
Colour images and B&W photographs throughout.