This new set of 6 indigenous small books includes a wonderful range of illustrated and photographic books. From the beautiful indigenous people of the Torres Strait, to the different kinds of bush tucker found in the Australian mainland, to mesmerising indigenous artworks featuring Australian animals and Dreamtime stories, this pack is bursting with indigenous Australian culture. This small books pack includes 6 titles, each 29.5cm x 21cm with 16 pages. 

Includes:

• Animals around the Billabong Small Book
• Let's Learn about the Dreamtime Small Book
• Let's Learn about Bush Tucker Small Book
• Let's Learn about the Torres Strait Islands Small Book
• Indigenous Sea Creatures Small Book
• Birds around the Billabong Small Book

Individual titles not sold separately.

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Gubbi Gubbi Animal Friends is an Aboriginal language children’s book that teaches the language and culture of the Gubbi Gubbi people. Gubbi Gubbi Animal Friends tells a story of a boy and his father and the Australian native animals. The book contains Gubbi Gubbi language words that are easy to learn alongside picture associations in a storytelling format about the Australian animals. The artwork showcased in Gubbi Gubbi Animal Friends is by local Sunshine Coast artist Bianca Clark.

• Authors: Christine Stuart and Susan Clark
• Illustrator: Bianca Clark
• 10 pages
• Size of the book: 25cm by 17.5cm

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Gubbi Gubbi Bush Tucker Girl is an Aboriginal language children’s book that teaches the language and culture of the Gubbi Gubbi people. Gubbi Gubbi Bush Tucker Girl tells a story of a girl and her mother and the Australian native bush tucker. The book contains Gubbi Gubbi language words that are easy to learn alongside picture associations in a storytelling format about bush tucker. Gubbi Gubbi Bush Tucker Girl includes illustrations by artists Bianca Clark and Gabrielle Cloutier. Both artists joined together their talents to create a modern day illustration of the Gubbi Gubbi people.

• Authors: Christine Stuart and Susan Clark  
• Illustrators: Bianca Clark and Gabrielle Cloutier
• 10 pages
• Size of the book: 25cm by 17.5cm

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Note: Available for backorder now, with delivery starting mid October 2024.

This publication evolved from a collaboration with Australian educators to provide you with a true 'Teacher Planner' – a comprehensive tool to keep you fully organised, with lessons planned and tasks checked off through the year.

The Elizabeth Richards 2025 Teacher Planner is designed to celebrate the daily learning journey of children, supported and guided by you, their teacher. We hope you enjoy using it as much as we loved creating it for you!

More than a Teacher Diary ... it's a Teacher Planner! The Elizabeth Richards 2025 Teacher Planner is more than a teacher diary, it includes everything you need to organise and plan the school year. It's A4 size includes the highest quality paper, bound with a strong black spiral coil. We've designed the laminated tabs to be not only functional and long-lasting (making it easy to find your place) but coordinate beautifully with the overall look of the Elizabeth Richards 2025 Teacher Planner.

 Features:

• The front cover is a plastic sleeve slipcover, you can choose to customise your cover with your own design and slip it into the sleeve or continue to use the covers included
• Elastic place holder
• School terms/public holiday calendar for 2025
• Yearly planner
• Monthly planner
• Diary organised by school terms. 
• Each term has: Term at a glance, double pages for each week Monday - Sunday (11 weeks per term) and a double-page notes section after every week to contain all meeting notes relevant to that week
• More notes pages than ever!

Dedicated pages include:

• Allergies Plan 
• Events & Volunteers
• Professional Development Log
• Stage Budget
• Student Contacts
• Parent Communication Log
• Pupil Checklist

Also includes:

• Two internal pockets which are large enough to take an A4 sheet of paper
• The back page of the diary is laminated so you can write-on/wipe-off notes or to-do lists
• Attached coordinating strong elastic placeholder  
• Colourful tabs separating all major sections

Specifications

• 264 full colour pages (not including front and back cover)
• Each page is 210mm x 270mm
• Plastic slip cover sleeves
• Laminated plastic tabs
• Write-on/Wipe-off back cover
• Elastic place holder 

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Beautifully illustrated 44 page hard-cover (26cm x 26cm) book of Australian Aboriginal stories. The author, Naiura, has faithfully recorded stories told to him as a child by his Grandmother. Every story is illustrated by colourful artwork, along with an explanation of symbols commonly used in aboriginal art. Teach children the tales of indigenous Australians and gain an appreciation of their art. The first in a series of three books.

 

• #25041 More Tales of My Grandmother's Dreamtime
• #25042 Even More Tales of My Grandmother's Dreamtime

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Beautifully illustrated 44 page hard-cover book of Australian Aboriginal stories. The author, Naiura, has faithfully recorded stories told to him as a child by his Grandmother. Every story is illustrated by colourful artwork, along with an explanation of symbols commonly used in aboriginal art. Teach children the tales of indigenous Australians and gain an appreciation of their art. The second in a series of three books. Book size: 26cm x 26cm.

 

• #25040 Tales of My Grandmother's Dreamtime
• #25042 Even More Tales of My Grandmother's Dreamtime

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Two beautifully illustrated 44 page hard-cover books of Australian Aboriginal stories. Each book measures 26cm x 26cm.

1. #25040 Tales of My Grandmother's Dreamtime
2. #25041 More Tales of My Grandmother's Dreamtime

The author, Naiura, has faithfully recorded stories told to him as a child by his Grandmother. Every story is illustrated by colourful artwork, along with an explanation of symbols commonly used in aboriginal art. Teach children the tales of indigenous Australians and gain an appreciation of their art.

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This handy flip book teaches that homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings. Three word examples are given (e.g. buy, bye, by) for each homophone. Three sentences containing the homophones are also generated at the bottom when the correct words are matched.

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Four picture books and a CD. Annabella Jones decides that today she will be a proper little lady and sets off to play in her very best dress! But the Proper Little Lady runs into all sorts of adventures -- climbing trees, even playing football and arrives home looking a little less proper!

Classic Australian picture books by well known authors. Carefully selected for their use of language and humour. Sound signals appropriate to the story, to indicate when to turn the page - provide excellent role models for expression in language and the function of punctuation. Illustrated covers, so even non-readers can identify the story. Imaginatively illustrated. Suitable for children approx ages 3 to 8. Extra books also available.

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The Very Ordinary Caterpillar lives in the Australian bush surrounded by magnificent, colourful animals and flowers. He realises just how ordinary he is and spins himself a cocoon to hide away in. But when he emerges, The Very Ordinary Caterpillar discovers that he is not so ordinary after all. Imaginatively illustrated. Suitable for children approx ages 3 to 8.

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'Goodbye smelly old city, hello big blue sea!' Holidays at the beach mean camping, swimming, finding crabs, feeding the seagulls, walking, reading. Everyone has plans for things to do. Susie wants to catch a fish, but some people just aren't lucky at fishing. What she's lucky at is something quite unexpected and wonderful. Imaginatively illustrated. Suitable for children approx ages 3 to 8.

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Australian picture book by the author of Walking with the Seasons in Kakadu. Beautifully illustated by Colwyn Cambell, and a wonderful Aboriginal teaching resource book. A story that traces a young boy's instruction in food gathering. With his mother he learns from their indigenous family how to collect the edible seeds of lilies and how to prepare them. For ages 3-15yrs.

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Two falcons flee to the city. They make their nest on a ledge up high, and the male sets off to hunt. Everything in the city mimics what he is used to in the country, but is subtly different.. Can the birds adjust? Extra books also available. Quick View

Turtle's Song is a lyrical journey of the life of a Green Turtle from a hatchling beneath the sand of a coral beach, through wanderings at sea, to adulthood and returning to lay eggs of its own.Vivid and exquisite images. Designed to be both entertaining and educational at the time when language skills and expanding vocabulary form an important part in a child's development. Classic Australian picture books by well known authors. Carefully selected for their use of language and humour. Sound signals appropriate to the story, to indicate when to turn the page - provide excellent role models for expression in language and the function of punctuation. Illustrated covers, so even non-readers can identify the story. Imaginatively illustrated. Suitable for children approx ages 3 to 8. Extra books also available. Quick View

Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley are the best of friends. But they are different in almost every way. Pearl likes solving mysteries and moves rather fast in the world. Charlie likes taking baths and watching his garden grow. Designed to be both entertaining and educational at the time when language skills and expanding vocabulary form an important part in a child's development. Classic Australian picture books by well known authors. Carefully selected for their use of language and humour. Sound signals appropriate to the story, to indicate when to turn the page - provide excellent role models for expression in language and the function of punctuation. Illustrated covers, so even non-readers can identify the story. Imaginatively illustrated. Suitable for children approx ages 3 to 8. Extra books also available. Quick View

The little boy climbed down from the train. 'Have you seen my grandmother?' he asked. 'There are only goannas here,' replied the station master. 'Is your grandmother a goanna?' An entertaining, heart-warming picture book. Designed to be both entertaining and educational at the time when language skills and expanding vocabulary form an important part in a child's development. Classic Australian picture books by well known authors. Carefully selected for their use of language and humour. Sound signals appropriate to the story, to indicate when to turn the page - provide excellent role models for expression in language and the function of punctuation. Illustrated covers, so even non-readers can identify the story. Imaginatively illustrated. Suitable for children approx ages 3 to 8. Extra books also available. Quick View

Turtle's Song is a lyrical journey of the life of a Green Turtle from a hatchling beneath the sand of a coral beach, through wanderings at sea, to adulthood and returning to lay eggs of its own. Vivid and exquisite images. Designed to be both entertaining and educational at the time when language skills and expanding vocabulary form an important part in a child's development. Classic Australian picture books by well known authors. Carefully selected for their use of language and humour. Sound signals appropriate to the story, to indicate when to turn the page - provide excellent role models for expression in language and the function of punctuation. Illustrated covers, so even non-readers can identify the story. Imaginatively illustrated. Suitable for children approx ages 3 to 8. Extra books also available.

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"Hairy Maclary's friends join him for a walk until, with a sudden yowl, a wail and a howl, they all run off. What could have caused such a scatter of paws?" Designed to be both entertaining and educational at the time when language skills and expanding vocabulary form an important part in a child's development. Classic Australian picture books by well known authors. Carefully selected for their use of language and humour. Sound signals appropriate to the story, to indicate when to turn the page. Australian voices - provide excellent role models for expression in language and the function of punctuation. Illustrated covers, so even non-readers can identify the story. Imaginatively illustrated. Suitable for children approx ages 3 to 8. Extra books also available. Quick View

"Hairy Maclary's friends join him for a walk until, with a sudden yowl, a wail and a howl, they all run off. What could have caused such a scatter of paws?" Designed to be both entertaining and educational at the time when language skills and expanding vocabulary form an important part in a child's development. Classic Australian picture books by well known authors. Carefully selected for their use of language and humour. Sound signals appropriate to the story, to indicate when to turn the page. Australian voices - provide excellent role models for expression in language and the function of punctuation. Illustrated covers, so even non-readers can identify the story. Imaginatively illustrated. Suitable for children approx ages 3 to 8. Extra books also available.

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Hairy Maclary heard a strange sound, a yowling, a wailing that echoed around . . . What could be causing the caterwauling cacophony that brings Hairy Maclary and his friends running? Designed to be both entertaining and educational at the time when language skills and expanding vocabulary form an important part in a child's development. Classic Australian picture books by well known authors. Carefully selected for their use of language and humour. Sound signals appropriate to the story, to indicate when to turn the page - provide excellent role models for expression in language and the function of punctuation. Illustrated covers, so even non-readers can identify the story. Imaginatively illustrated. Suitable for children approx ages 3 to 8. Extra books also available. Quick View

Hairy Maclary heard a strange sound, a yowling, a wailing that echoed around . . . What could be causing the caterwauling cacophony that brings Hairy Maclary and his friends running? Designed to be both entertaining and educational at the time when language skills and expanding vocabulary form an important part in a child's development. Classic Australian picture books by well known authors. Carefully selected for their use of language and humour. Sound signals appropriate to the story, to indicate when to turn the page - provide excellent role models for expression in language and the function of punctuation. Illustrated covers, so even non-readers can identify the story. Imaginatively illustrated. Suitable for children approx ages 3 to 8. Extra books also available.

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"With a big juicy bone from Samuel Stone, Hairy Maclary sets off for the dairy. His friends want to share it with him ,but Hairy Maclary has other ideas". Designed to be both entertaining and educational at the time when language skills and expanding vocabulary form an important part in a child's development. Classic Australian picture books by well known authors. Carefully selected for their use of language and humour. Sound signals appropriate to the story, to indicate when to turn the page - provide excellent role models for expression in language and the function of punctuation. Illustrated covers, so even non-readers can identify the story. Imaginatively illustrated. Suitable for children approx ages 3 to 8. Extra books also available. Quick View

"With a big juicy bone from Samuel Stone, Hairy Maclary sets off for the dairy. His friends want to share it with him, but Hairy Maclary has other ideas". Designed to be both entertaining and educational at the time when language skills and expanding vocabulary form an important part in a child's development. Classic Australian picture books by well known authors. Carefully selected for their use of language and humour. Sound signals appropriate to the story, to indicate when to turn the page - provide excellent role models for expression in language and the function of punctuation. Illustrated covers, so even non-readers can identify the story. Imaginatively illustrated. Suitable for children approx ages 3 to 8. Extra books also available.

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"Hairy Maclary is busy chasing, bustling and hustling all the neighbourhood cats. But there is one particular cat he does not expect to meet." Designed to be both entertaining and educational at the time when language skills and expanding vocabulary form an important part in a child's development. Classic Australian picture books by well known authors. Carefully selected for their use of language and humour. Sound signals appropriate to the story, to indicate when to turn the page - provide excellent role models for expression in language and the function of punctuation. Illustrated covers, so even non-readers can identify the story. Imaginatively illustrated. Suitable for children approx ages 3 to 8. Extra books also available. Quick View

"Hairy Maclary is busy chasing, bustling and hustling all the neighbourhood cats. But there is one particular cat he does not expect to meet." Designed to be both entertaining and educational at the time when language skills and expanding vocabulary form an important part in a child's development. Classic Australian picture books by well known authors. Carefully selected for their use of language and humour. Sound signals appropriate to the story, to indicate when to turn the page - provide excellent role models for expression in language and the function of punctuation. Illustrated covers, so even non-readers can identify the story. Imaginatively illustrated. Suitable for children approx ages 3 to 8. Extra books also available.

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