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

ReadPLus

Probably got this on the blog somewhere but good to be reminded. A great site for Australian reviews and lists.

http://readplus.com.au/

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.

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.

Graphic Novels 2

Great link for Core Graphic novels: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/compubs/booklists/grphcnvls.cfm

Graphic Novels

These sites looks like a good source of graphic novel titles: http://www.intbooks.com.au/graphicnovels.php
http://www.educationalbooks.com.au/index/graphic-novels/page-1.php
http://comicsintheclassroom.net/oo1all_ages_list.htm
http://www.noflyingnotights.com/sidekicks/core.html

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

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