Books & Learning Packs
Browse among our unique and growing collection of books on ANZAC Day and the ANZACs. Also included are several teaching and learning packs. All of our books are printed in Australia. Prices ex and inclusive of GST are shown. All orders are shipped by couriers or Australia Post. Orders to an address in Australia incur a flat shipping and handling charge of $7.70 (incl GST) per order. Orders sent to international locations attract a shipping cost based on weight.
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The Unknown Australian Soldier
This resource aligns with the Australian Curriculum : History for Year 9 and the study of contextual text within the Australian Curriculum : English [Literature Strand] for Years 5-9.
Two children who have attended the interment ceremony for the Unknown Australian Soldier at the Australian War Memorial are somewhat bewildered as to why this event took place. In a "dream sequence" the ghost of the Unknown Australian Soldier takes the children on a journey back in time to Gallipoli, the Middle East, the Western Front, etc. Suit middle primary to lower secondary.
ISBN 0-9577957-3-4
Published 2001
Author - Mary Small
Illustrator - Anne Langridge
Paperback with celloglaze cover; 32 pp excluding cover; B5 Landscape; Colour illustrations superimposed on photosAdd to Cart$7.70 -
K is for Kokoda
An A to Z of Australia and the Second World War
By Matt Anderson
Nothing before or since has rivaled Australia's participation in the Second World War, both in its extent and its intensity. The war changed how we saw ourselves as a nation and to whom we would look in the future to underwrite our security. It modernised our industry, swept away the unemployment of the Great Depression, and redefined the role of women at home, in the work force and in the armed services. Through a collection of short overviews and sketches, K is for Kokoda explores these and other aspects of Australians at war in 1939-1945.
Published by the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland), 2010. Soft cover, photographs, 104 pages. ISBN 978-0-9804480-3-0
Call To Order$16.50 -
Simpson and Duffy Big Book
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
Add to Cart$66.00 - Primary Teaching and Learning Package
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Why are they marching, Daddy? (Big Book Kit)
See also next item - accompanying Kit - available to supplement this item
This resource aligns with the Australian Curriculum : History for Year 3. It may also be used within the family history component of the Australian Curriculum : English [Literature Strand] for Years P-3 in the Big Book format.
ISBN 0-9577957-7-7
Published January 2002
Editor - Di Burke
Illustrator - Elizabeth Alger
Paperback with celloglaze cover and pages;16 pp excluding cover; Big Book/Portrait 490mmx360mm; Colour illustrations every page
Comes with a special kit to use with the book. The kit includes:
- A teachers’ manual written by Tracey Linnane, on CD
- A set of word cards – 27 words with illustrations specific to the big book;
- The oral story – ‘Why are they marching, Daddy?’ on CD; and
- 6 x Why are they marching, Daddy? Shelf books
Add to Cart$66.00 -
When the War Came
This resource aligns with the Australian Curriculum: History for Year 10: "The impact of World War II, with particular emphasis on the Australian Home Front"
By Vashti Farrer
Sally and her friends live in Kings Cross where there's a constant fear of possible invasion, especially after Japanese mini-subs enter Sydney Harbour! There are rations and restrictions and blackouts and the constant worry of having fathers serving overseas. Even Sal's eccentric Gran can't always cheer her up as she waits for her Dad to come home.
Vashti Farrer is an author well known for her books for young people and her wonderful historical fiction. This account of the Second World War as viewed through a young Sydney girl's eyes is an accurate, exciting and invaluable record for all youngsters who would like to know about this important period in Australian history.
Aligns perfectly with the Year 10 history syllabus "The importance of World War 2 with particular emphasis on the home front…"
This text also supports differentiation of learning by having accessible entry points and multiple exit points. The students can read the text and the teacher can provide opportunities for them to display skills reflective of Blooms Taxonomy.
Suitable for Upper Primary to mid Secondary. Published by the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee (Qld) Inc, 2012. Soft cover, 105 photographs, 112 pages. ISBN 978-0-9804480-4-7
Add to Cart$10.95 -
Digging for Diggers
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
Add to Cart$17.60 -
Simpson and Duffy
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 colourAdd to Cart$10.95 -
Gallipoli Medals
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.
Add to Cart$10.95 -
Feathered Soldiers: An illustrated tribute to Australia's wartime messenger pigeons (big book kit)
This resource aligns with the Development of Historical Text within the Australian Curriculum: History for Year 6 .It is also a suitable text for middle primary years in the Big Book format within the historical context of the Australian Curriculum: English [Literature Strand].
A Teaching and Learning Package for Primary Schools.
ISBN 0-9757123-1-4
Published 2005
Written by Vashti Farrer & Mary Small; Illustrator -- Elizabeth Alger
Paperback with celloglaze cover and pages; 32pp excluding cover
Big Book/Portrait 490mmx360mm; colour Illustrations every pagePackage includes: 1 x Big Book 6 x Shelf Books (B5 size)
Classroom activities on CD-ROMAdd to Cart$77.00 -
In Search of Sloan Bolton, DCM
The individual book from the In Search of … series.
ISBN 0 9581625 8 1
Add to Cart$8.80