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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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£45.61 -
Why are they marching Daddy? (Shelf Book)
(Shelf Book)
ISBN 0 9581625 5 7
Published July 2004 to complement Big Book Kit
Add to Cart£4.56 -
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£39.10 -
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£6.48 -
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£10.43 -
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£39.10 - Primary Teaching and Learning Package
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Lofty's Mission
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
PaperbackAdd to Cart£6.52 -
In Search of Ethel Allchin
The individual book from the In Search of … series.
ISBN 0 9581625 6 5
Add to Cart£5.21 -
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£6.48 -
A Sunday in PicardyAn 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
Add to Cart£5.21