Reading Resources for parents and teachers
Lists of recommended reading are arranged alphabetically under headings
for you to browse or look for books on particular topics.
New!
The 2024 CBCA Notables contains some wonderful titles but here is a list of titles that we think are also Notable for a variety of reasons. These stories are memorable because they are original, memorable, touching, well written, clever, amusing and most importantly, appealing to their intended audience. We hope that you will consider them also. Read and enjoy.
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Notable 2024
Reading Lists A – Z
A
A is for Activism
Aboriginal Peoples’ Stories Fiction and Non Fiction
Afghanistan Reading Resources
Ancient Egypt *
Ancient Greece*
Ancient Origins*
Animal Rights
Ancient Rome*
Anne Frank Remembered
Anzacs in Picture Books
Australian Animal Books for Younger Readers
Australian Animal Books for Ages 9 to 12
Autobiographies for Younger Readers
B
Best Children’s Books 2021
Best Children’s Books 2020
Being Different
Body Image
Book Links 2021 Children’s Historical Fiction Award LONGLIST
Bushfires, Droughts and Floods
C
Christmas Books
D
Death, Grief and Loss in Picture Books
Death, Grief and Loss in fiction for Primary School
Death, Grief and Loss in fiction for Years 7-9
Death, Grief and Loss in fiction for Years 10-12
Disabilities
Dragons in Picture Books
Dragons in Fiction for primary school students
Dragons in Fiction Years 7-9
Dragons in Fiction Years 10-12
Dystopian fiction
E
Environmental fiction
F
Fairy tales retold for older readers
Fairy tales retold for younger readers
Family-Diversity-in-Australian-Children’s-Picture-Books (NCACL)
Graphic Novels : Famous novels and plays as graphic novels
Graphic Novels for Middle Grade Readers
Graphic Novels for Young Adults
Graphic novels featuring Mighty Girls
H
Halloween Reading for Primary School
Holiday Reading 22
Holocaust Remembrance Day: 60 Mighty Girl Books About the Holocaust
I
Indigenous picture books
J
K
L
Learning Through Play in Picture books
M
Best Multicultural Children’s Books of 2023
N
NEW! I Can’t Believe It’s Not Notable 2024
O
P
Reading about penguins
Plagues & Pandemics Fiction
Poetry for children
R
Reading Pictures – Drawing Words
Refugees
S
STAND OUT picture books 2023
STAND OUT Middle Grade Novels 2023
St Valentine’s Day Reading
T
U
V
Australian Verse Novels for Young Adults
Australian Verse Novels for Younger Readers
Verse Novels
The Vikings*
W
World War 1 resources
WORLD WAR Europe fiction for Year 7 – 9
World War II Europe for students in Years 10-12
Y
Z
For more lists of wider reading on a variety of Curriculum related topics please email Dajo at dajofinlayson@gmail.com or fill in the contact form below.
Dajo has more than 200 lists – see titles in the Literature Guide Listing . New and updated lists will also appear here regularly.
