Younger 2010

• Fiona McIntosh's Website

• Sally Murphy's Website

• Jen Storer's Website
• Discussion of guardian angels - who are the children's mentors (earthly guardian angels)?
• Draw guardian angles - what would they look like?
• Meet Tensy Farlow Video

• Link to Fiona McIntosh's Website
• Create mythological creatures

MURPHY, Sally Illus. POTTER, Heather

• Link to Sally Murphy's Website
• Friendship Theme - grandmas/loss
• Read sections aloud - belonging
• Shape poems - how the words look on the page
• Relate to the emotions of the children - loss of special pet or toy (be aware of children who have lost grandparents)
• Poetry Competitions

• Odo Hirsch's Website
• Create your own glitter pool (3D diaramas or pictures)
• Teaching Notes

• Alison Lester's Website
• Loyalty theme
• Survival - herdic animals
• Pictures of horses - decorations

• Elizabeth Fensham's Website
• Bullying Theme - secrets
• Links with Aboriginal culture - loyalty & belonging (bat story), community
• Dramatise start of book - Matty dressed as pirate, do as a 2 person drama - discuss who is boy & girl
• Competition: Draw picture of yourself and best friend

Link to Sally Murphy's Website

Link to Jen Storer's Website

Link to Fiona McIntosh's Website

Link to Alison Lester's Website

Link to Odo Hirsch's Website

Link to Elizabeth Fensham's Website

Link to Elizabeth Fensham's Website

Link to Elizabeth Fensham's Website Link to Elizabeth Fensham's Website

Link to Elizabeth Fensham's Website

Link to Elizabeth Fensham's Website

Book of the Year: Younger Readers

Intended for independent younger readers.

FENSHAM, Elizabeth

HIRSCH, Odo

LESTER, Alison

MCINTOSH, Fiona

MURPHY, Sally

STORER, Jen Tensy Farlow and the Homefor Mislaid Children Viking, Penguin Group Australia

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