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Heather's Bookshelf

This page features a list and samples from the many different books and series I've worked on. It also provides brief synopses of each series or book and links to publishers to see more images and read more about them. Any of these books and series are readily available through the publishers or in a wide variety of bookstores.


Dog Tricks and Training dog tricks
This project was a dream to work on and brought together my two great loves in life - writing and training dogs. This book and DVD gift set also comes with a training clicker and dog toy. It features my own dogs and dogs belonging to three of my friends. Using the book and DVD you can teach your dog some basic obedience skills and lots of fun tricks that will amuse friends and family. By using the training method I recommend, you will also forge a close bond and working relationship with your dog - and that's something very special!

See more at Hinkler Books


Cyber Hound cyberhound

Cyber Hound is my title in the popular Ripper Reads series of books for young readers. Found in all good bookstores Little Rippers and Ripper Reads are quirky chapter books that are high interest and heaps of fun. For example, my title is about a boy who discovers he can control his dog with his Gameboy after the dog gets a microchip ID at the vet.

See more at The Five Mile Press

PM WRITING                pmswriting
PM Writing is one of the most exciting series of educational books I've ever worked on. Why? Because it is more than just a reading program. It is a holistic reading and writing program that teaches children how to do both correctly from the start. It is a complete learning package with exemplar texts, workbooks, teachers' notes, DVDs and more. It has proved a huge success in the marketplace and is now being used to teach many little tackers the literacy skills that will set them up for life.
I'm also proud to say that this series won the Primary Literacy Series Award for 2008, voted by peers in the publishing industry.


See more at Cengage Learning

Nelson Focus focus


Nelson Focus was one of the first major Guided Reading series I worked on and seven years later it is still selling well. Originally intended as supplementary texts, this series of  64 titles for early and middle school readers has become core reading in many schools. Sold extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Asia, translated into French and Spanish, it is a series I am immensely proud of as myself and my co-author Julie Haydon produced the series framework, came up with all the topics and wrote all the texts between us.

See more at Cengage Learning


PM Science Factspmscifacts     
supernova
PM Chapter Books      

I have many more books in the outstanding range of PM guided readers. The PM Program is Australia's most successful levelled reading program and covers all aspects of Primary Literacy. PM Science Facts was written solely by myself and Julie Haydon. We each have a large number of books in the rest of the PM program too.


See more at Cengage Learning

Chill
Out! chillout

Chill Out! is a series of high impact quick reads for reluctant Upper Primary readers. Chill Outs do not 'talk down' to these readers. Instead they present high interest contemporary stories that grab the attention of readers and encourage them to improve their literacy skills. I wrote the title 'Warp World' for this series and it was one of the few times I have had the chance to do some really way out weird science fiction for the educational market. Great fun and readers seem to love it.
See more at Cengage Learning

Flying Colours   flyingcolour
Flying Colours is a complete literacy program for the first three years of Primary School. Texts are broadly levelled and focus on teaching written, oral and visual skills as well as reading. Julie Haydon and myself wrote the majority of the non-fiction texts in this series and it has been used extensively by schools in Australia, Asia and Canada. We are very proud of it!

See more at Cengage Learning


MACMILLAN LIBRARY BOOKS  MACMILLAN
Macmillan Education has been voted Primary Publisher of the Year for the last three years by a group of its peers in publishing. I am very proud to say I have co-written two hardback library series for Macmillan - one entitled Scientists At Work with Rose Inserra and Julie Haydon. The other, the Money series, is featured here in the above image. These high quality hardback books are used in schools in Australia and the United States to educate children and provide them with information for school projects etc.
NEWS FLASH!!! Macmillan Education Australia has always produced Australian books for Australian Schools and now they're about to do it again with Macmillan Australia Topics. Due to be released early 2010, I have been busy writing 28 titles in this special new series. The series is very Australia-centric and features Australian topics for our own primary-aged readers. It focusses strongly on critical, independent thinking and features 'Big Questions' at the back of each book to encourage class discussion on the topics. Macmillan Australia Topics is almost a hybrid between guided readers and Macmillan Library Books and I look forward to seeing the series take off in 2010.


See more at Macmillan Education Australia


Hinkler Books Activity Packs  egypt
I have written a number of Activity Pack booklets for Hinkler Books over the years, as well as editing many packs by other authors. These are available for viewing on Hinkler's website and include:
Ancient Egypt
Fancy Feet
Spiro Craft
Play Clay
Stamping


See more at Hinkler Books



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