At the Bookshelf we understand that for teachers and librarians, finding time to track down books can be difficult.

We’ll endeavour to make it as straightforward for you as possible.

Services

OUR SERVICE IS FREE

How it works:

  • send us a list of the books you are after or ask us to put together a collection for you

  • we will send you through a quote to approve

  • we will source the books and deliver to your school/kinder/library when the order is complete

Below are just some ideas for ways in which we can help…

Classrooms & Libraries

  • Send us a list of the titles you’d like to order. We will source them and deliver to your school/library.

  • Don’t know exactly what you want but have some holes to fill? We can put together a list of titles to suit.

    ‘We need more dinosaur books in the library’

    ‘I need novels for my high level Gde 6 students’

  • Have a certain amount in your budget that you need to spend? We can choose titles to suit your needs and your budget.

  • Need to cull out of date books in your library? We can do that for you and provide new books to complement your existing collection.

Books to enhance units of Inquiry  

  • Let us know what your unit of inquiry is and we will find books that will enhance the students learning.

  • We can suggest real-aloud novels that work with your units of study.

  • We can source fiction and non-fiction titles for your classroom libraries.

Levelled texts

  • We can suggest books that will suit the reading levels in your grade

  • We can come to your classroom and show the students a selection of books that would make great multi-sets.

    We find this is a great way to get the students excited for the their reading groups.

  • We can source dyslexia-friendly books

Respectful Relationships & Wellbeing

  • We put together Year Level Tubs that contain mentor texts to suit the Respectful Relationships program topics.

  • If you have a particular social/emotional area that you’d like to highlight in your classroom or school we can put together a collection of mentor texts

  • We can source books to encourage inclusion

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Texts (ATSI)

  • We put together suggestions for books written by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors and illustrators

  • We can suggest books to enhance your First Nations curriculum

  • We can source books that celebrate ATSI culture and that feature ATSI characters