Queensland's own dinosaur, the Muttaburrasaurus stars in his own children's book. This is for the earliest of readers and independent reading age of 6. Share in Mutt's birthday adventures as we sing him Happy Birthday and join in his party games!
Read MoreHelp Muttaburrasaurus find his best friend, as Teddy plays hide and seek with Mutt!
A great book for the youngest book enthusiast! Ages 18 months to beginner readers will enjoy interacting with this story.
Hat Parade is the perfect book for your Easter Hat Parade! The book text doubles as lyrics for the backing track music found by following the easy links on: www.donnadyson.com
This book highlights the Queensland Museum's fine hat collection and allows children to enjoy the fun of dressing up!
Reading age: Early childhood to around 8 years, though children of older years enjoy singing the song.
This early reader links children with the numeracy counting skills in numbers one to ten. Ten Queensland butterflies are the beautiful illustrations and each one is presented with the correct name.
Come and Count the Butterflies is a popular book which can be extended into symmetry butterfly art pictures which can be cut and used as props for a performance piece for assemblies, fete days and other school celebrations as children learn the text and sing with the backing track music found easily right here on www.donnadyson.com.
Count Me First is a wonderful book for teaching ORDINAL numbers in early years Mathematic programs. The illustrations clearly position each child in the correct position and use the word, ordinal number and illustration to emphasize this mathematical concept.
There is a backing track of music available for this book and can be easily accessed by following the links on: www.donnadyson.com
This book is enjoyed by children who are pre readers and up to year one level, as they read or sing along to the adventures of the international children.
Teachers can use this book and backing music as a performance piece to be celebrated on fete, assembly , grandparent or international children's day.
Australian Animals links with reading ages of early primary school, though can be introduced to younger readers. The beautiful illustrations are the original works of John Gould. This text has been written as a lyric and backing track music is downloadable from www.donnadyson.com
Teachers: Australian Animal studies: Use this text as performance poetry in song for assembly, grandparent or fete days. Dress children in animal masks and teach children backing song.
Enjoy the remarkable illustrations of John Gould's Australian Birds and identify the species.
This book is suitable for young readers and highlights written text for speakers.
Teachers: Australian Birds; Speech marks; Use of voice in questioning; Pre-research Australian Birds.
Take a stroll through the Queensland Museum toy box and enjoy the collection of old toys as children identify colours! Ages 18 months to 6 years.
Teaching focus: Words using Onomatopoeia; Colour identification; Themes of "Then and Now", Olden Days.
AGE: Suitable for young readers of ages 6-8, though historical themes creates an inclusive age to 12 years.
Your Shipwreck Adventure is based upon the shipwrecks of North Queensland impacted by the reef and cyclones. Dive with Maritime Archaeologist Dr. Dan as you examine the shipwreck and learn to piece the clues together to find out how, when and why the ship sank. Learn about biodiversity, maritime archaeology and the importance of living memory from the artifacts left behind.
This is a rhyming text, which can be integrated into Poetry, Australian History, Maritime Studies, Environmental Studies and the importance of museum artifacts.
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