Category Archives: Teaching Notes and Units of Work

Off the Shelf – December 2015 OUT NOW!

Off the Shelf is a FREE resource from Penguin Teachers’ Academy for teachers and librarians. Each edition contains articles, author interviews, teaching resources and new books from Penguin Random House. Available from the iTunes Store, in Newsstand. It might’ve felt … Continue reading

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September/October 2015 Off the Shelf – OUT NOW!

Surprise! Off the Shelf has arrived a little sooner than expected. Why the rush? We simply had to get in early to wish you the best for the 2015 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Read-a-thon Challenge. The Read-a-thon debuted last year to a huge … Continue reading

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OUT NOW – Off the Shelf July 2015

Off the Shelf is a FREE resource from Penguin Teachers’ Academy for teachers and librarians. Each edition contains articles, author interviews, teaching resources and new books from Penguin and Puffin. Available from the iTunes Store, in Newsstand.   For you … Continue reading

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RESOURCE – Puffin Virtually Live

      Puffin Books Virtually Live, is a series of free interactive webcasts from Puffin’s bestselling authors. On their website you can find a selection of previous webcasts which you can watch on-demand, as well as details of forthcoming … Continue reading

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SBS Online releases first-ever interactive graphic novel

As part of SBS’s multi-platform recognition of the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and 40 years of Vietnamese resettlement in Australia, SBS has released an interactive graphic novel based on the acclaimed story The Boat by Nam Le.  … Continue reading

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Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey

Winner of the Readings New Australian Writing Award 2014 Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human. The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing stories … Continue reading

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