Websites+Oceania+literature

These links relate to the literature and legends of the Oceania region - large and small islands of the Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand. There are also links relating to literature and book lists.

Internet Sacred Text Archive: Pacific Islander religions This is a site which links to out-of-print books on mythology and religion. There are links to Oceania mythology, Easter Island and the rongo=rongo tablets, Maori and Polynesian mythology, Hawaiian stories and mythology and stories relating to Samoa, Tahiti and Melanesia.
 * PACIFIC ISLANDS**

[|Tales and stories of the South Pacific] This text-based site has Pacific Legends and oral history from Tahuata, Mangareva, Samoa, Tonga, Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, Tuamotu and gathered by Daniel (Taniera) Longstaff. Once you click on the country of interest links to the stories appear in the left column.

[|Legends of Guam Part 1] [|Legends of Guam Part II]

[|Pacific Islands magazine] Online magazine of current Pacific news

Ancient stories, new voices Twelve animated Dreamtime stories from Australia.
 * AUSTRALIA**

Inside a dog A book-based website "by young people, for young people" with reviews and forums for discussion.

Children's Book Council of Australi The website of the longest running children's festival in Australia, since 1945. Annual awards for the categories Older Readers, Younger Readers, Early Childhood, Picture Books, and/or Information Books are given.

Focus on Fiction Website of the Western Australia Department of Education. Links to awards, authors and illustrators, Book Week, literature in the classroom and booklists.

NSW Premier's Reading Challenge booklists

Gleebooks children's website with links to reading lists and guides.

Indij Readers Indigenous readers developed by an Aboriginal children's charity.