Storm Boy

Teacher Resource

Publisher's synopsis

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.

Awards

Winner 1986 Zilferen Griffel (Dutch translation)

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Colin Thiele

The Late Colin Thiele, born in 1921 in South Australia, wrote more than 100 books which often described life in rural Australia, particularly the Coorong region of coastal South Australia. Several of his books have been made into films or television series, including Sun on the Stubble, The Fire in the Stone, Blue Fin and Storm Boy. The Thiele Library at the Magill Campus of the University of South Australia was named after him many years before his death. The Senior Student Shared Library at the Golden Grove Campus is also named after him. Colin died in 2006 at the age of 86.