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20/12/2025

Just in time for last-minute gifts: Guardian Australia critics and staff pick out the best books of the year, featuring Helen Garner, Dominic Amerena, Evelyn Araluen and more

15/12/2025

The BBE office will close on December 17th 2025 and reopen January 20th 2026.
We will continue to attend to book orders and other inquiries, sometimes remotely.
Contact us at
[email protected]
or ring Janny on 0427152143

We wish everybody a safe, restful, revitalising summer break.
Janny, Doug and Ting

02/12/2025

We found out the favourite 2025 books of 35 expert readers – and the Books & Ideas team shares our own picks, too.

30/11/2025

👉 NEW blog - What is the status of the set task in VCE English?

In this blog Doug McCurry argues that there is hardly any explanation of the expectations about and marking of the new and unfamiliar Section B task. This means that fundamental issues about preparing for this task are unclear, and that the current absence of explanation means the marking is quite opaque.

Read the full blog👇
https://www.boobookeducation.com.au/blog.html?view=article&id=683:what-is-the-status-of-the-set-task-in-vce-english&catid=56

18/11/2025

Turning Australian history upside-down. Two resources for Year 11 English Language that explore a top-end view of our history, one written and one spoken.

Heat, terror and resistance: Henry Reynolds’ bold, new book takes a top-end view of Australian history
https://theconversation.com/heat-terror-and-resistance-henry-reynolds-bold-new-book-takes-a-top-end-view-of-australian-history-268572?utm_medium=article_clipboard_share&utm_source=theconversation.com

Henry Reynolds turns Australian history upside-down
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/henry-reynolds-looking-from-north-australia-history-david-marr/105871422?utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared

The writing of Australian history has tended to focus on the south-eastern corner of the continent, but the story of colonisation north of the Tropic of Capricorn paints a vastly different picture of this country, its people, politics and ambitions. Guest: Henry Reynolds, historian and author of Loo...

28/10/2025

🌟NEW BLOG🌟
How would we best prepare students for VCE Section A questions?

In this blog Doug McCurry argues that current Section A questions have become conceptual and thematic so that preparing for such questions involves focusing on the way plot and character are linked to themes.

Read the full blog
https://www.boobookeducation.com.au/blog.html?view=article&id=682:how-would-we-best-prepare-students-for-vce-section-a-questions&catid=56

27/10/2025

🌟NEW BLOG🌟 Learning from testing: testing for learning
In this blog Doug McCurry argues that good test items can be used to teach students. He uses the last three items from G*T Section B of 2024 to show how good test items can be used to explicitly teach higher order reading skills.

Read the full blog 👇
https://www.boobookeducation.com.au/blog.html?view=article&id=681:learning-from-testing&catid=56

24/09/2025

The BBE VCE English language Unit 2 sample exam is now available here.

Three sections covering all aspects of the course. One exam paper for Unit 2, with answer guide.

They are instantly downloadable if paying by credit card,
or use a school order number to have them delivered by email within 24 hours.

👇 Order here 👇
https://www.boobookeducation.com.au/shop/2025-vce-english-language-unit-2-exam.html

21/09/2025

Brilliant Prof Burridge supports the Aus Nat Dictionary and gives a run down on Aus English.

How would we document Australianisms like “fair suck of the sauce bottle” and “no wucken furries” without a guide?

15/09/2025

🎯 Argument analysis - VCE ENGLISH SECTION C PRACTICE TASKS – Series 2

🌟This publication gives an introduction to Argument analysis - Section C on the VCE English exam and ten Section C tasks.
👉 An analytical commentary is given for each task. The tasks are the following.

✍️ Controls on Access to Social Media
✍️ The Value of Electric Scooters
✍️ A Generational Smoking Ban
✍️ Funding for Recreation
✍️ Complaints of bias in the ABC
✍️ Opposition a Fast Food Restaurant
✍️ The impact of AI in Schooling
✍️ A Fat Tax

Instantly downloadable if paying by credit card, or use a school order number to have them delivered by email within 24 hours.

Order via the link below:
https://www.boobookeducation.com.au/shop/argument-analysis-vce-english-section-c-practice-tasks-2.html

07/09/2025

🌟Writing about personal journeys 🌟
Toggling between his identity at home and his identity at school and with his friends. This sort of delicate, unconscious negotiation is the lived experience of so many migrants and migrant children.

And over time, the dominant frame usually wins.

I suspect like most first-generation migrants, Dad learned early that the best way to fit in is to let your heritage gently recede.

20/08/2025

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a crucial book for understanding rising authoritarianism. We need it more than ever.