Reading Australia is celebrating its second birthday.
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The initiative was launched in July 2015 by not-for-profit Copyright Agency with the purpose of helping teachers to spread a love for Australian texts.
Reading Australia said it believed that every society “needs to tell their own stories” and the best way way to do this was to provide “quality and insightful resources” to support English teachers in bringing “Australia’s rich and unique literature” into classrooms.
The organisation started out as a list of 200 books chosen by a panel from the Australian Society of Authors to celebrate the work of the nation’s leading writers and illustrators in telling the Australian story.
The list has since expanded and covers all genres and periods of Australia’s literary history.
Gunnedah Shire Library contains many Australian titles for children and teenagers, including Paul Jennings’ Un collection and Gizmo series, Mem Fox’s Possum Magic, Jackie French’s Diary of a Wombat, and John Marsden’s Tomorrow series.