Welcome to Global Language Books, an Australian business servicing the needs of adults, children, parents, caregivers, childcare, schools, resource centres and libraries, specialising in the C.A.L.D. (Culturally and linguistically diverse) and the LOTE field.

Experience with Tender situations to libraries in New South Wales (Local Government Procurement), Victoria (Procurement Australia), South Australia (PLS, State Library of South Australia)

With over 25 years’ experience in the service of LOTE library supply in both Australia and NZ, we feel sure you will be delighted with our range.

Experienced in large bulk adult collections in over 20 languages of the latest best sellers and bilingual children’s collections for city to country public and school library services, we pride ourselves on our hands-on approach and customer service in a specialist supply field.

Require shelf ready materials? We work in partnership with several experienced specialist cataloguing firms for shelf ready materials and are able to quote this upon request in writing.

We also offer displays of our collections at our showroom, at in-services, conferences, ESL and LOTE resource days depending on location and our availability. We welcome your enquiries for Library / ESL / LOTE and staffroom displays in the Sydney metropolitan area by our sales consultants. Ask about our on-approval service.

It is our aim to bring you quality resources that share an exchange of ideas, philosophies, knowledge, stories and language. Not only do we have wonderful bilingual picture books for children, but also books in English that encourage inclusion for children of all abilities, concept books, board books, big books and books to love and share, please view our home page.

We hope you enjoy browsing our site.

Bilingual format titles include books in English with either: Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese; Burmese Karen; Chinese (traditional and simplified), Croatian, Dinka, Dutch, Farsi (Persian), French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Nepali, Punjabi, Polish, Patois, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Scottish Gaelic, Shona, Slovakian; Spanish, Somali, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Twi, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yoruba and MORE

Email your enquiry to glinfo@glbooks.com.au or call our office on
0408 480 515 for further assistance.