Activities and Study Guides

 All these resources are free to use and have been made available by creators and publishers. Please thank the creators and publishers and support them if you can.


Australian Creators and Publishers

ABC Education: Comic Book Edits: Edit a comic book adventure to make it more exciting and complete with these ABC Education online resource for upper primary students. You can choose the following stories:
The Adventures of Anders (Gregory Mackay): This is an amazing and delightful graphic novel series for kids 6-11. Allen and Unwin has published a Teacher's Guide for Adventures of Anders with plenty of ideas to discuss the books with kids. You can also learn to draw Anders with Gregory Mackay's video.

Bad Guys (Aaron Blabey): Some activities from the Best Selling Australian series can be found here.


Penguin Australia: Book related activities such as colouring sheets, mazes, find a word and drawing challenges. Ages 0-6 here. Ages 6-12 here.

Reading Australia: Reading Australia Study Guides: Reading Australia publishes study guides that are perfect to use with students. You can find study guides for Tom Taylor's and James Brouwer's The Deep: Here Be Dragons, Brenton McKenna's Ubby's Underdogs and Shaun Tan's The Arrival among many others.

Webcomics: You can check our blog post 'Libraries are closed but you can still read comics' where we outline different ways for you to still enjoy reading comics through your library's digital catalogue and webcomics freely made available by their creators. 


ABC Education: Graphic Novels and Comics

The ABC has a few resources and videos discussing graphic novels from different perspectives and for various age levels.

These resources and videos are a great resource for teachers and students as they also include learning activities and ideas.

The ABC also suggests applicable curriculum areas and year levels the resources are appropriate for.

Primary School
Secondary School

Jennifer Byrne Presents... Graphic Novels

Other ABC Education resources:

International Creators and Publishers

Dav Pilkey at Home: Learning resources and activities from Dav Pilkey himself.

DC Kids Camp: DC is putting resources and activities together to engage kids at home. Sign up to get a newsletter with all the latest resources and activities in your inbox.

Diamond Bookshelf: This website has a huge range of lesson plans for graphic novels.

Graphix (Scholastic): A great collection of colouring sheets and activities directly from Graphix with plenty of their different series featured: Amulet, Mr Wolf's Class, Dog Man, Geronimo, Owly, etc. The treasure trove of Graphix colouring sheets can be found here. A series of different activities for kids featuring content from Dog Man, Amulet and Raina Telgemeier's works can be found here. Finally, an excellent guide to using graphic novels for learning with children and teens is available here.

Jarrett Jr. Krosoczka's Draw Every Day: The Draw Every Day series of videos is exactly that, a video  every week day to learn and practise drawing. An amazing resources from a great creator.

Raina Telgemeier: A study guide for Smile from The Classroom Bookshelf. Discussion questions for Smile are here. A classroom guide packed with ideas and activities for students 9-12 for Raina's Ghosts here. 

Scholastic Learn at Home: Daily learning resources and activities for students at home from Scholastic.

Wings of Fire (Tui T. Sutherland): This series is incredibly popular and there are now three graphic novels available. Here are some activities freely available. Wings of Fire comic creator. Wings of Fire word search. Create your own Wings of Fire book cover.


If you know of any other resources freely available from the publisher or creator that are suitable for kids let us know. Send an email to us and we'll add it to the page.