A New South Wales connection

Had a great start to my day! An ACS colleague now living and teaching in Australia emailed me to COLLABORATE on a task, "New South Wales is implementing a new English syllabus. One of the main concepts is "Reading to Write", and how we need to introduce various texts on writing and styles of writing.  I immediately thought I would pick your brain as to some different books you might be able to suggest about authors and the craft of writing."

Cool. Collaborating at day-away to the southern hemisphere. 

BTW, I reponded with:

Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau. It's a classic from the 1940s. Queneau tells the same short anecdote in 99 different writing styles! I think it would be very accessible for students.

And The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner. Both of these are from my days working at Broome College. Gardner, of course, was the revered guru of teaching writing at Binghamton University.