Hello Educators!
We love schools and educators at Lost in Books. We are always learning and know that you are too. We specialise in multilingual content, literature and skills development. To support teachers and students with their education, we are offering free video content for all ages; a multilingual bookshop with book titles in over 65 community languages; and a NESA-accredited Professional Development course.
If you don’t see what you’re looking for here or for more information, send us an email or give us a call on 02 9727 3928.
Click to download our Bookseller’s Choice core lists for your classrooms:
New Customer Sign Up
STEP 1: Register your school/institution details
Enter your school's contact details below to register as a member of our Lost In Books Schools community and enjoy access to our Creative programs (online and face to face), special offers and discounts, professional development courses for educators, community events, newsletters, reading lists and more.
STEP 2: Create a user account in our online shop
New customers will need to create a user account to place an order online. Sign up is very quick and easy - it takes less than 30 seconds. Make sure you enter the same First Name, Last Name, and email address as in the Registration form above. You will need to set your own safe password.
If you are purchasing for a school or institution, and require an invoice, please choose Account payment option in the check out OR select the PAYPAL option to use a debit or credit card to complete your purchase.
For security purposes, we will only process online orders from School accounts with verified email addresses and valid postal addresses. To ensure that your order gets processed, please complete STEP 1 - Registration above before ordering online.
If you need help checking out, call us on (+61) 02 9727 3928 or email us at hello@lostinbooks.com.au or read our FAQ page.
Multilingual Books
Lost in Books has a growing collection of books in English and in more than 65 community languages including those of Australia’s First Nations. And if we don’t have it, we can order it in. We also offer a multilingual search service to source hard to find quality books in the languages your students and school communities speak. contact us for book recommendations or to find out about discounts for bulk orders and reduced-price shipping.
Creative Program
Lost in Books’ creative program is run with artists who love to make art, theatre, film, music, science experiments and purposive fun in schools. We also run in-school creative sessions for early learning, primary or secondary schools.
Through our outreach program, WANDERING BOOKS, we meet weekly with newly arrived students and their families to forge social connections between families, and between families and the school; to strengthen intergenerational bonds through creative play and exploration; to celebrate cultural and linguistic diversity; to increase English lexicon; to share languages; and to make new creative works.
Kindergarten - Year 2
Weekly storytelling in English and other languages - we are reading CBCA Notables 2020, the Scribble Kids' catalogue, and international titles: All the Ways to be Smart in English and Arabic; Doodle Cat is Bored in Tagalog and English; Grandma Z in English.
Weekly music sessions for preschoolers and early infants and a licence to our interactive online multilingual songbook available in late 2023 for an affordable fee.
Year 3 - 6
Weekly Bookclub for readers from Year 3 - 6 - we follow a different theme each week, and showcase books in multiple languages for students to enjoy
Year 7 - 12
Youth Arts Studio online and face-to-face from Term 2 - guided by local artists.
Weekly Bookclub for independent readers from Year 7 to Year 12 - we follow a different theme each week, and showcase books in multiple languages for young people to enjoy
Multilingual Writers' Collective - a structured course to support all writers, but especially those who work in languages other than English, to produce new work. Led by published writer and educator, Rawah Arja. Submissions of work will be critiqued.
Adults & Educators
The Writers’ Room multilingual writers’ program meets every Tuesday at Think+DO Tank Community House.
Our NESA accredited professional development course brings creative strategies into teaching, especially with multilingual learners, is available from Term 2 as a four-part digital course. The course is designed to offer content for all levels of teaching experience across the spectrum of proficient, highly accomplished and lead teachers (fees apply).
Professional Development
Course
Multilingual Creative Classrooms Professional Development Course
Are you a teacher or a community worker in a multilingual setting? Are you looking for creative ideas to engage and promote excellence among speakers of languages other than English?
Join the Think+DO Tank Foundation’s professional development course, Multilingual Creative Classrooms. You’ll gain new strategies to strengthen multilingual literacies and new ways to use creative learning in your teaching and programming.
The course is delivered by Think+DO Tank Foundation’s Academic-in-Residence Dr Rachael Jacobs of Western Sydney University - a gifted communicator and expert in the field. Online and self-paced, the course is insightful and practical; full of inspiring ideas you can put into practice immediately.
The Multilingual Creative Classrooms Professional Development course is suitable for all teaching levels, providing just what you need to keep inspiring today’s diverse students to achieve excellence.
The Course is structured to permit self-paced learning for up to 4 accredited hours of professional development.
It is licensed to a single user ($250+GST), a group of 10 ($2000+GST) or to a school with unlimited licences managed by the school ($7500+GST).
Course developed by: Dr Rachael Jacobs, Western Sydney University (with Kathryn Morgan and Jane Stratton, CEO, Think+DO Tank Foundation).
Online course designed and made by: Annie McKinnon, About Turn.
Course delivery by: Dr Rachael Jacobs, Academic-in-Residence at Think+DO Tank Foundation.
Course Duration: Up to 4 hours of NESA-accredited coursework.
Location: Take the course online at your own pace.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
• increase their confidence and competence to use the arts and creative learning strategies at all stages of learning, especially when teaching culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) learners
• strengthen educators’ ability to understand the cultural context for CALD student, and apply this to all stages of learning
• maintain and strengthen multilingual literacies in CALD learners
• strengthen literacy pedagogy, particularly for speakers of other languages.
Ideal Course Participants
Team leaders, for example, stage leaders, subject leaders
Classroom teachers
Special education specialists
School Leaders.
Fee Structures
Individual Participant - $250 + GST
Group of Ten - $2000 + GST
School Licence (unlimited users) - $7500 + GST.
