History - Text Ideas
@ Snapshot Learning
Disclaimer - This is my personalised list of texts. My purpose for developing this list was to deepen my understanding of rich text and support my teaching of English, History, Geography, Science and Maths. This list isn't a definitive list and may not be accurate.
Also it doesn't reflect the opinions or judgements of my employer.
I would love you to add to this list, so please email/inbox me your suggestions.
Referenced - "Suggested Texts for the English K–10 Syllabus", Christine Fraser's "Books and More Books for Key English Concepts", Lizzie Chase's book lists, Guide to Using Picture Books in Geography K–10, Guide to Using Picture Books in History K–10, online blogs and professional fb group posts. - Shellie Tancred
Early Stage 1 – Personal and Family Histories
Saturdays and Teacakes – Lester l. Laminack & Chris Soentpiet
Little Dog and the Summer Holiday – Corinne Fenton
Grandpa and Thomas - Pamela Allen
Grandma, the Baby and Me - Emma Allen, Hannah Sommerville
Hello from Nowhere - Raewyn Caisle and Karen Blair
Same, Same but Different - Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
Guji Guji by Chih - Yuan Chen
Same, But a Little Dif'rent - Kylie Dunstan
Stage 1 – Present and Past Family Life
Granny’s Place - Allison Paterson
Tea and Sugar Christmas by Jane Jolly and Robert Ingpen (PRC K–2)
Lizzie Nonsense - Jan Ormerod
New Year’s Surprise! - Christopher Cheng and Di Wu
Isabella's Bed - Alison Lester
Grandpa Green - Lane Smith
Remembering Lionsville - Bronwyn Bancroft
Grandpa's Stories - Rachel Tonkin
Grandmother - Jeannie Baker
Papa and the Olden Days - Ian Edwards and Rachel Tonkin
My First Car was Red - Peter Schossow
The Curious Garden - Peter Brown
The Keeping Quilt - Patricia Polacco
Kick it to Me - Neridah McMullin and Peter Hudson (PRC K–2)
Flotsam - David Wiesner
Stage 1 – The Past in the Present
The Curious Garden - Peter Brown
Kick it to Me - Neridah McMullin and Peter Hudson (PRC K–2)
Flotsam - David Wiesner
The Fabulous Friend Machine - Nick Bland (English Concepts - Characterisation; Connotation, imagery, symbol)
Lizzie Nonsense - Jan Ormerod
The Jolly Postman: Or Other People's Letters - Janet and Allen Ahlberg
Grandfather - Jeannie Baker
The Tram to Bondi Beach - Libby Hathorn and Julie Vivas
Remembering Lionsville - Bronwyn Bancroft
When I was a Kid - Rachel Tonkin
Anzac Biscuits - Phil Cummings and Owen Swan
What Was The War Like, Grandma? - Rachel Tonkin
Sam’s Bush Journey - Sally Morgan, Ezekiel Kwaymullina and Bronwyn Bancroft
You and me Murrawee - Kerri Hashmi and Kerri Marshall
The Mbobo Tree by Glenda Millard and Annie White
Playground - Nadia Wheatley
Stage 2 – First Contacts
Meet Captain Cook - Rae Murdie
The First Fleet - Alan Boardman and Roland Harvey
The Little Wooden Horse - Mark Wilson
Barani: Sydney’s Aboriginal History
Bittangabee Tribe: An Aboriginal story from Coastal New South Wales - Rebecca Kirby, Liddy Stewart, Beryl M Cruse, Steven Thomas
Nardika Learns to Make a Spear - Chris Fry
The Lost Girl - Ambelin Kwaymullina and Leanne Tobin
You and me Murrawee - Kerri Hashmi and Kerri Marshall
When I Was Little Like You - Mary Malbunka
Welcome to Country - Aunty Joy Murphy and Lisa Kennedy
Nyunti Nintu: What You Should Know - Bob Randall and Melanie Hogan
The Great Voyages of Zheng He - Demi
Adventures of the Treasure Fleet: China Discovers the World - Ann Bowler and Lak- Khee Tay-Audouard
The Little Wooden Horse by Mark Wilson
Beth: the Story of a Child Convict by Mark Wilson (Aboriginal people reference is written in the context of the time, maybe disrespectful)
Meet Captain Cook - Rae Murdie and Chris Nixon
A - Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land - Simon Barnard
The First Fleet - Alan Boardman and Roland Harvey
Australian Story - An Illustrated Timeline - Tania McCartney
Playing Beatie Bow - Ruth Park
John of The Sirius - Doris Chadwick
John of Sydney Cove - Doris Chadwick
John and Nanbaree - Doris Chadwick
Surviving Sydney Cove - Goldie Alexander
The Rabbits - John Marsden/Shaun Tan
My Place - Nadia Wheatley
The Great Expedition - Peter Carnavas
Playing Beatie Bow - Ruth Park
Topsy Turvy World: How Australian Animals Puzzled Early Explorers - Kirsty Murray
Stage 2 – Community and Remembrance
Along The Road To Gundagai - Jack O`Hagan
Only A Donkey - Celeste Walters
The Fair Dinkum War - David Cox
Gallipoli - Kerry Greenwood
ANZAC Ted - Belinda Landsberry
Simpson and his Donkey - Mark Greenwood
Charlie's War - Mick Manning
Gallipoli Medals - Goldie Alexander
ANZAC Biscuits - Phil Cummings
Jack's Bugle - Krista Bell
Meet The Anzacs - Claire Saxby
The Poppy - Andrew Plant
Midnight - The Story of a Light Horse - Mark Greenwood
The ANZAC Puppy - Peter Millett
The Beach They Called Gallipoli - Jackie French
My Grandad Marches on ANZAC Day - Catriona Hoy
Bittangabee Tribe - Beryl Cruse, Rebecca Kirby, Liddy Stewart and Steven Thomas (English concepts Code & convention; Context)
The Lost Girl - Ambelin Kwaymullina and Leanne Tobin
Corroboree - Angus Wallam, Suzanne Kelly and Norma MacDonald
Nyunti Nintu: What You Should Know - Bob Randall and Melanie Hogan
Mooncakes - Lorretta Seto and Renne Benoit (English concepts Context; Intertextuality; Point of View)
Lin Yi’s Lantern - Brenda Williams and Benjamin Lakombe
Ramadan Moon - Na'ima B. Robert and Shirin Adl
You and Me: Our Place - Leonie Norrington and Dee Huxley
The Tram to Bondi Beach - Libby Hathorn and Julie Vivas
The Most Beautiful Lantern - Sally Heinrich
Fang Fang's Chinese New Year - Sally Rippen
Long Long’s New Year - Catherine Gower and He Zhihong
When I Was Little Like You - Mary Malbunka
Meet the Flying Doctors - George Ivanoff and Ben Wood
Shake a Leg - Boori Monty Pryor and Jan Ormerod
Reflection: Remembering Those Who Serve in War - Rebecka Sharpe Shelberg, Robin Cowcher
The Unknown Australian Soldier - Mary Small and Anne Langridge
I Was Only Nineteen - John Schumann
The Anzac Puppy - Peter Miller
In Flanders Fields - Norman Jorgenson and Brin Harrison-Lever
Australia at the Beach - Max Fletcher and Tom
Jellett (PRC 3–4) Lone Pine - Susie Brown, Margaret Warner and Sebastian Ciaffaglione
New Year’s Surprise! - Christopher Cheng and Di Wu
Lin Yi’s Lantern - Brenda Williams and Benjamin Lakombe
Ramadan Moon - Na'ima B. Robert and Shirin Adl
The Most Beautiful Lantern - Sally Heinrich
Fang Fang's Chinese New Year - Sally Rippen
Long Long’s New Year - Catherine Gower and He Zhihong
Welcome Home - Christina Booth
Celebrations
On the Day You Were Born - Margaret Wild
Pete the Cat The first Thanksgiving - James Dean
Lettice: the Birthday Party - Mandy Stanley
Thank You, Santa - Margaret Wild
From Seed to Pumpkin - Wendy Pfeffer
Bear Stays Up For Christmas - Karma Wilson
Thanksgiving on Thursday - Mary Pope Osborne
Russell’s Christmas Magic - Rob Scotton
Let the Celebrations Begin - Margaret Wild
If You Were at The First Thanksgiving - Anne Kamma
Children Just Like Me: Celebrations - Anabel and Barnabas Kindersley
Christmas Around The World - Mary Lankford
Christmas Around The World - Brenda Trunkhill
A New Years Reunion - Yu Li Qiong
Christmas Traditions Around the World - Carole Marsh
Celebrate Christmas Around the World - Beth Stevens
The Runaway Wok Ying - Chang Compestine
Lanterns and firecrackers: A Chinese New Year story - Jonny Zucker
Fortune cookie fortunes - Grace Lin
Dragon Dance - Joan Holub
The Dancing Dragon - Marcia K. Vaughan
My First Chinese New Year - Karen Katz
Tet,The Vietnamese Lunar New Year - Huu Ngoc
The Runaway Rice Cake - Ying Chang Compestine
Celebrating Chinese New Year - Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
Stage 3 – The Australian Colonies
Australian Federation: One People, One Destiny - Net Brennan
Meet Ned Kelly - Janeen Brian
The Legend of Moondyne Joe - Mark Greenwood
The Night We Made the Flag - Carole Wilkinson
Barney and the Secret of the Whales - Jackie French
Eureka Stockade - Alan Boardman and Roland Harvey
To the Goldfields - Rachel Tonkin
The Legend of Lasseter's Reef - Mark Greenwood
Waltzing Matilda - A.B. Paterson, John Williamson, Freya Blackwood
One Small Island - Alison Lester and Coral Tulloch
Jandamarra - Mark Greenwood and Terry Denton
The Night We Made the Flag: A Eureka Story - Carole Wilkinson and Sebastian Ciaffaglione
The Whale's Song - Dyon Sheldon
Lost: a True Tale from the Bush by Stephanie Owen Reader
The Dog on the Tuckerbox - Corinne Fenton and Peter Gouldthorpe
William Bligh: A Stormy Story of Temptuous Times - Michael Sedunary and Bern Emmerichs
My Place - Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins
Nanberry - Jackie French
Eureka Stockade by Alan Boardman and Roland
Harvey (PRC 3–4)
To the Goldfields by Rachel Tonkin (PRC 5–6)
The Legend of Lasseter's Reef - Mark Greenwood
Kick it to Me - Neridah McMullin and Peter Hudson
Sam, Grace and the Shipwreck - Michelle Gillespie and Sonia Martinez
Young Murphy - Gary Crew and Mark Wilson
Inside the World of Tom Roberts - Mark Wilson
Tom Appleby, Convict Boy - Jackie French
The Unlikely Story of Bennelong and Phillip - Michael Sedunary
Letters of a Convict Girl, age 11 - Kate Walker
New Gold Mountain - Christopher Cheng
Animal Tales - Susan Hall/Ben Guy
John of Sydney Cove - Doris Chadwick
Surviving Sydney Cove - Goldie Alexander
The Rabbits - John Marsden/Shaun Tan
Sand Swimmers - Narelle Oliver
Mustara - Rosanne Hawke and Robert Ingpen (English Concepts - Character; Context; Narrative)
Caroline Chisholm: - The Emigrant’s Friend - Tania McCartney
Kick it to Me - Neridah McMullin and Peter Hudson
Sam, Grace and the Shipwreck - Michelle Gillespie, Sonia Martinez
Young Murphy - Gary Crew and Mark Wilson
Inside the World of Tom Roberts - Mark Wilson
The Hunt For Ned Kelly - Sophie Mason
Lightning Jack - Glenda Millard, Patricia Mullins
The Nelly Gang - Stephen Axelsen
Stage 3 – Australia as a Nation
Say Yes: A Story of Friendship, Fairness and a Vote for Hope - Jennifer Castles and Paul Seden (English Concepts - Authority; Context; Intertextuality)
Big Book of Australian History - Peter Macinnis
Stories for Simon - Lisa Miranda Sarzin and Lauren Briggs
Stolen Girl - Trina Saffioti and Norma MacDonald
The Burnt Stick - Anthony Hill and Mark Sofilas
Solid Rock - Shane Howard and Peter Hudson
I'm Australian Too - Mem Fox and Ronojoy Ghosh
The Little Refugee - Anh Do, Suzanne Do and Bruce Whatley
My Two Blankets - Iren Kobald and Freya Blackwood
Ships in the Field - Suzanne Gervey and Anna Pignataro
A True Person - Gabiann Marin and Jacqui Grantford
Ali's story - Andy Glynne and Salvador Maldonado
The Wishing Cupboard - Libby Hathorn and Elizabeth Stanley
The Peasant Prince - Li Cunxin and Anne Spudvilas
The Arrival - Shaun Tan
Out - Angela May George and Owen Swan
The Lotus Seed - Sherry Garland and Tatsuro Kiuchi
Meet the Flying Doctors - George Ivanoff and Ben Wood
One Minute's Silence - David Metzenthen
The Beach They Called Gallipoli - Jackie French
The Horses Didn't Come Home - Pamela Rushby
Light Horse Boy - Dianne Wolfer
Our Enemy, My Friend: The Diary of Emma Shelldrake - Jenny Blackman
Stories For Simon - Lisa Miranda
Jandamarra - Mark Greenwood
Lone Pine - Susie Brown
The ANZAC Tale - Ruth Starke
Archie’s Letter by Martin Flanagan
The Afghanistan Pup - Mark Wilson
Stolen Girl - Trina Saffioti
Lennie The Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony - Stephanie Owen Reeder