Ever wondered why there are so many books about bears? Discover the grizzly truth in this bear-all account.

Bears are tired. Sick and tired. And just when they are in the middle of something really good–like sleeping, snoozing or napping–too many storybooks mean they have to stop what they are doing–that is–sleeping, and get up and be part of a story. Every story.

Well, the bears have had enough. They are going on strike. This hilarious book looks at some alternatives for all the parts bears play in stories. But what sort of animal could be… just right?

Another Book About Bears

Nonfiction: A cave is a very different kind of home.

Key Links Blue titles continue to increase vocabulary in every book. The prompts in the Focus Panels of the 24 early reading titles:

• continue to reinforce high-frequency words and introduce more topic vocabulary
• combine students' experience of PREVIEWING and VIEWING images and text
• discuss characters, settings, and problems and solutions
• extent students' understanding of punctuation and visual features
• reinforce reading and comprehension strategies

Key Links Blue 13: Living in a Cave

Nonfiction: Father penguins, frogs and seahorses take care of their young.

Key Links Yellow titles continue to increase vocabulary in every book. The 24 reading titles are carefully scaffolded to:

• further develop students' high-frequency word bank and begin to write some high-frequency words
• reinforce and extend students' letter–sound knowledge, including growing number of word families
• reinforce and extend students' use of reading and comprehension strategies
• encourage students to think 'between' and 'beyond' the lines
• invite students to being discussing characters

Key Links Yellow 05: Animal Fathers

Fiction: Max and his mom have a difficult problem, but they find a good way to solve it.

Key Links Green titles continue to increase key vocabulary in every book. The prompts in the Focus Panels of the 24 early reading titles:

• continue to reinforce high-frequency words and introduce more topic vocabulary
• PREVIEW and VIEW images and text together
• discuss characters, settings, problems and solutions
• extent students' understanding of punctuation and visual features
• use oral language for recounts and instructions

Key Links Green 18: Baxter

Nonfiction: Takes a close-up look at four animals and their whiskers.

The emergent reading titles in the Key Links Magenta are carefully scaffolded to introduce high-frequency words, repetitive text structures and beginning sound–letter relationships.

The prompts in the Focus Panels invite students to read, think about and discuss what they read. Through active discussion, students are introduced to:

• core high-frequency words
• simple letter–sound relationships
• beginning comprehension and reading strategies

Key Links Magenta 07: Whiskers

Fiction: A woman foils a spider's attempts to knit a web until one evening the spider knits a web around the woman's entire bed.

The emergent reading titles in the Key Links Magenta are carefully scaffolded to introduce high-frequency words, repetitive text structures and beginning sound–letter relationships.

The prompts in the Focus Panels invite students to read, think about and discuss what they read. Through active discussion, students are introduced to:

• core high-frequency words
• simple letter–sound relationships
• beginning comprehension and reading strategies

Key Links Magenta 15: Look at the Web

Fiction: Dad gets a surprise after he loses his boot and doesn't realise what Baby has done.

Key Links Red titles have more varied text than Magenta titles and new key vocabulary in each book. The 24 early reading titles are carefully scaffolded to:

• reinforce and introduce high-frequency words
• build on and introduce students to letter–sound relationships including new phonemes, blends and diagraphs
• introduce new comprehension and reading strategies
• involve students in active discussion about what and how to read

Key Links Red 3: Dad's Boot

Nonfiction: Each day from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. elephants, giraffes, lions and a hawk follow their own schedule of activities.

Key Links Red titles have more varied text than Magenta titles and new key vocabulary in each book. The 24 early reading titles are carefully scaffolded to:

• reinforce and introduce high-frequency words
• build on and introduce students to letter–sound relationships including new phonemes, blends and diagraphs
• introduce new comprehension and reading strategies
• involve students in active discussion about what and how to read

Key Links Red 23: Down at the Waterhole

Happy, sad, silly, or glad, express yourself! Use the emoji stickers and stamper to mark your day and match your mood. Send emoji messages to your friends with your emoji memo pad. No words necessary. Set includes: Emoji Tin with lid (178 mm diameter) Memo Pad 2 sticker sheets 3 erasers pen stamper Emoji Stationery Tin

Skye can't wait to meet her hero, stunt pilot Ace Sorensen. But when Ace's plane flies into danger, it's up to the PAW Patrol to save the day. Will the team be able to rescue Ace and get her flying again in time for the Adventure Bay air show? Skye's Got To Fly

Aggie is the survivor of a power station disaster, and the poster girl for Lumite Inc, her godfather’s lunar prison mine.

But when she discovers an old space-suit on the border with the restricted dark side of the moon, her world starts to crumble. The moon hides further secrets, and soon the balance of power falls on Aggie’s shoulders–who can she trust, and what is hidden on the dark side? MOONDUST

With photos from the past matched to today, this book looks at changes in daily life–where we live, how we spend time, what we grow, and how we get together.

Charles Hope. Softcover. Full colour. 24 pp. Primary. Then and Now: Home