Secondary School Picture Books

Intended as a guide to explore key language and literature components, this series supports students to gain foundational knowledge on how text meaning is created.

Mapping to Curriculum, Life Skills and Faith

Consisting of five picture books, this series provides an orientation to the Australian English units of study (Secondary).

Students are encouraged to explore each picture book from the lens of the unit being taught, with the support of the related analysis and the classroom teacher. Intended as a guide to explore key language and literature components, this series aims to support students to gain foundational knowledge on how text meaning is created.

These books serve as companions to class texts by identifying, demonstrating and guiding analysis. Exploring these smaller books first supports students to more confidently tackle class novels/films/booklets.

Garden of Choices

Garden of Choices is a gentle reminder that decisions should be made carefully. Using literary devices such as onomatopoeia and partitives to highlight the small parts/paths that lead to bad choices, the story is explored through the lens of the conflicted.

Even though Apple has many friends in the Garden, she is eager to include Orange in her circle. Orange, on the other hand, has few friends but is reluctant to accept Apple’s friendship. Until one day, when Orange is faced with a family crisis and Apple comes to the rescue. Orange is touched by Apples thoughtfulness and begins to warm to her and her friends. An unreliable narrator makes it difficult to identify the antagonist from the protagonist: Apple is charming but cheeky while Orange is reliable but cagey.

Grammatical moods, fallacies and appeals are used to confuse the audience and lead them to a false truth. While foreshadowing provides some clues, it is not until the end of the story that readers realise where they are, why the characters are fruits, and who is really who.

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