Colin Thiele

Two fourteen-year-old cousins join a group of fishermen in pursuit of a massive shark off the coast of Southern Australia.

When Lake Eyre, created by a great flood in the central Australian desert, begins to dry up, Pinta, the pelican, leads her children Preen, Plume, and Pannikin on the long and difficult journey to the coast.

When Storm Boy goes walking along the beach or over the sandhills, or in the sanctuary the birds are not afraid. They know he is a friend. He lives with his father, Hideway Tom in a humpy made of brush and wood. One day a group of young pelicans decide to come to visit Storm Boy and Hideaway. With their friend Fingerbone they name them Mr Proud, Mr Ponder and Mr Percival. When two of them leave, Mr Percival stays to live with them and Storm Boy and the pelican become best friends. In return Mr Percival helps to rescue a shipwrecked fishing crew. This moving story became a magical film and is now one of the classics of Australian writing for children. The other stories in this book are: The Water Trolley, The Lock-Out, Dad Ran a Fowl Run, The Shell and The Fish Scales.

Having rescued an emu egg from the clutches of a goanna in the Australian scrublands, twelve-year-old Danny is determined to hatch it despite a series of near-disasters and the interference of the school bully.

In het begin van de twintigste eeuw vestigt een Duitse familie zich op het Australische platteland. Na haar schooltijd moet dochter Emma met grote tegenzin thuis op de boerderij werken.

Een emoe-ei uit de klauwen van een varaan redden is al niet makkelijk. Maar wanneer Danny het ei wil uitbroeden, komt hij pas echt in de problemen.

After the growing traffic from the nearby city turns the road next to their Australian farm into a dangerous highway, Farmer Schulz's youngest daughter Anna solves the problem of how to get her family's ducks safely across the road every day.

Troubled by increasingly frequent but puzzling, mind pictures, thirteen-year-old Tracy becomes convinced that they are warning her of impending disaster. But what kind ... and when?

A lighthouse, a whimbrel, and an old man help a young girl accept growing up and the meaning of change.

An Environmental book, which looks at the demise of the planet Htrae (Earth backwards) and describes a beautiful place which is eventually ruined by the Sknuks, the inhabitants of Htrae. It offers hope and choice at the end. It is a beautifully written book with stunning metaphors and similes, which flows when read aloud. It is a picture book for all ages, a timeless classic.