Children's Fiction > Mentor Texts K-2 NSW Term 2
These books have been selected to use as mentor texts when teaching the new NSW English Syllabus units created by the Department of Education NSW.
A Year on our Farm by Penny Matthews
$15.99 AUD
Category: Mentor Texts K-2 NSW Term 2 | Series: YEAR ON OUR FARM
Every month of the year there are jobs to do on a small Australian farm. Fruit ripens, lambs are born, hay is harvested. 'A Year on our Farm' shows the passing of the seasons through the eyes of the children for whom the farm and all its animals is home. This delightful picture book won the Children's B ...Show more
All Through the Year by Jane Godwin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mentor Texts K-2 NSW Term 2 | Reading Level: 4-8
Open this book and travel your way all through the year and treasure each day. From this beloved/illustrator team comes a timeless account of a year in the lift of an Australian family. Told through the eyes of a child and featuring each month of the year, here is a book to give, to share and to treasur ...Show more
Bee & Me by Alison Jay
$17.99 AUD
Category: Mentor Texts K-2 NSW Term 2 | Reading Level: Children's - Kindergarten, Age 5-6
A beautiful wordless picture book brings a personal note to the plight of the honeybee and offers a message of hope. A little girl befriends a bee that takes her on a journey of discovery, revealing an action that every child can take to aid in conservation. In a wordless story told through enchanting ...Show more
Floof by Heidi McKinnon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Mentor Texts K-2 NSW Term 2
An irresistible new picture book from the bestselling and internationally acclaimed creator of I Just Ate My Friend and There's No Such Thing. This is Floof. Floof is floofy. Floof is VERY floofy. Floof is the FLOOFIEST! Floof is going to have a very busy day... A book to delight anyone who has ever lov ...Show more
Florette by Anna Walker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mentor Texts K-2 NSW Term 2
When a little girl moves from the country to the city, she is sad to leave behind her beloved backyard garden. But then she makes a magical discovery near her new home and soon friendships as well as flowers are blooming. Full color.
Hattie And The Fox by Mem Fox
$15.99 AUD
Category: Mentor Texts K-2 NSW Term 2 | Series: Fox, Mem
Hattie, a large black hen, tries to warn the other animals on the farm that there is something or someone lurking behind the trees. The suspense is brilliantly built up in the illustrations by slowly revealing a fearsome fox that is waiting to pounce. Hattie and the Fox combines repetition and imagery t ...Show more
I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott
$16.99 AUD
Category: Mentor Texts K-2 NSW Term 2
Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner What if words got stuck in the back of your mouth whenever you tried to speak? What if they never came out the way you wanted them to? Sometimes it takes a change of perspective to get the words flowing. A New York Time ...Show more
I'm Australian Too + Poster by Mem Fox
$19.99 AUD
Category: Mentor Texts K-2 NSW Term 2
Im Australian! How about you? Many people from many places have come across the seas to make Australia their home. How Australian is that? From countries near and far, many have made their home in Australia, sharing it with the original inhabitants, and living in peace beneath the Southern Star. Mem Fox ...Show more
March of the Ants by URSULA DUBOSARSKY
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mentor Texts K-2 NSW Term 2
The ants are heading out on a very important expedition. What will they need to take with them? It's a wild journey! And in the end, it's the littlest ant who leads the others to discover the most important thing of all. A book about a very special book.
Mr Huff by Anna Walker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mentor Texts K-2 NSW Term 2
Bill is having a bad day.Mr Huff is following him around and making everything seem difficult. Bill tries to get rid of him, but Mr Huff just gets bigger and bigger!Then they both stop, and a surprising thing happens ...Gentle and poignant, affirming and wise, Mr Huff is a story about the clouds and the ...Show more
Nian, the Chinese New Year Dragon by Timothy Banks; Virginia Loh-Hagan
$36.99 AUD
Category: Mentor Texts K-2 NSW Term 2
2020 EUREKA Excellence in Nonfiction Awards - Gold Winner 2020 Feather Quill Reviewer's Choice Award Mei hates springtime. Why? Because it's only in the spring that Nian, a fierce dragon, is able to leave his mountain prison under the sea to terrorize the local village. When the villagers hear the rumbl ...Show more
Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief: CBCA Honour Book 2022 by Katrina Nannestad
$19.99 AUD
Category: Mentor Texts K-2 NSW Term 2
Readers Cup 2023 Winner of the 2022 Indie Book Awards for Childrens Literature Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ... Wood splinters and Mama screams and the nearest soldier seizes her rou ...Show more
