Goodreads choice award winners

Goodreads awards go to the books voted most popular by its community. They include Young Adult, Young Adult Fantasy, Middle grade and childrens and Picture Books. Announced early December:
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2014

Walker Books Classroom

Nice site for resource lists and general book news. Australian Curriculum based.

http://classroom.walkerbooks.com.au/home/

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Some suggested sources of books:

Joyce Valanca's Pinterest

Your Next Read

What Should I Read Next

Bookish

Australian Children's Books

Review blogs and publisher websites for finding Australian Children's Books: The Book Chook

The Bottom Shelf

Barbara Braxton's Bottom Shelf contains lists of the best of the best children's books.

Young Adults Reader Reviews

Australian students review YA literature

http://www.yarr-a.com/

Links for Good books

Dymocks’101 best books 2012
Try a book from this list, as voted by 15 000 Aust. readers.

Goodreads

The largest site for readers and book recommendations in the world - a great place to find out about excellent books, popular books, genres, quizzes and quotations. 

The best 100 opening lines from books
Click on the book covers to reveal the lines from excellent books, old and new.

100 best closing lines from books
100 best films based on books 

Literary Awards Australia
Award-winning books - gateway to 300 Aust, US, British, Canadian, NZ & Irish awards. Currently being updated.

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards

Winners and shortlist for 2012.

Australian Independent Bookseller
Weekly Top 10 bestsellers; book news, Indie Awards chosen annually. This year's Indie Award: All that I am by Anna Funder (also won the Miles Franklin Award).

National Year of Reading

More links about reading

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation
The ILF helps to raise literacy levels in remote indigenous communities by donating books and supporting community literacy projects. Over 60 000 books have been donated to over 200 areas in the last few years and some stories have been translated into indigenous languages. Indigenous Literacy Day is Wed 5 Sept 2012.

Children’s Book Council of Australia

Winners 2012   Notable books 2012  

Australian Best Reads

This is a very nice site, not only for lists of great reads, but for links to sites which review resources, eg under subject areas.

From an email sent by Barbara Braxton:

Best reads for Australian Kids http://australian-best-reads.wikispaces.com/ is designed to be a database where we can recommend must-reads for students from K-12. There are also pages for sharing information about the best apps, blogs about books, read and review, e-books, and book trailers. It is not limited to Australian authors and as well as the 'classics' we are hoping to get recommendations for new publications as well so we can all expand our knowledge and introduce students to things beyond the 'tried-and-true'.. It began because I discovered that the Top 100 books in Australian school libraries has hardly changed since I retired in 2006, and what was there in 2006 had hardly changed for many years as well. To join, you will need to click on "Join" in the top menu bar and do what is required. I'll approve it asap but if you don't leave an email address, you will not get notification.

Chicken Spaghetti

This is a great blog for lists of children's books, including Amazon's top tens:

http://chickenspaghetti.typepad.com/

Koala Book Awards

Kids Own Australian Literature Awards are annual awards made by young readers in NSW to the Australian books they have most enjoyed reading during that year. The Shortlist is a good source of titles.

http://www.koalansw.org.au/index.html

CMIS Resource Bank

Lists all types of curriculum (WA) related materials for teachers and students - a great resource which can be limited by educational levels and learning areas:

http://amlib.det.wa.edu.au/webquery.dll?v20=1&v22=1M

SchoolStore.com.au

Although intermitently slow at the time of access this site looks like a terrific resource for both fiction and non-fiction for children of all ages. There are a couple of supplier catalogues and lists of titles by subject.

http://www.schoolstore.com.au/Pages/Default.aspx