Gertrud Rukschcio Gertrud Rukschcio i(A65242 works by)
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13 7 y separately published work icon Blue Fin Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1969 Z918946 1969 single work children's fiction children's
— Appears in: Storm Boy ; Blue Fin 1982;

'Everyone in Port Lincoln thinks Snook Pascoe is a loser. People joke about his clumsiness; his teacher ridicules him and even his father, skipper of the tuna boat Blue Fin, is convinced that Snook will never amount to anything. After all, tuna fishing is a hard life for ‘real men’.

'When Snook is allowed, for once, to sail on Blue Fin he faces a terrifying disaster. A waterspout engulfs the ship, the deck is swept clean, the radio and rudder are wrecked, the engine is disabled, the crew is lost overboard and Snook’s father lies unconscious down below. Snook is on his own, far out to sea…' (Publication summary)

2 1 y separately published work icon The Sknuks Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1977 Z828072 1977 single work children's fiction children's

The greedy sknuks pollute their beautiful planet and face extinction because they are suspicious and refuse outside help. (Source: Trove)

5 1 y separately published work icon The Hammerhead Light Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1976 Z269136 1976 single work children's fiction children's

'The Hammerhead Light was a tower of stone. Sometimes it stood gleaming in the sunlight on the high headland of Hammerhead Rock, like a great white monument, sometimes it loomed out of the black storm clouds. To Tessa Noble and the people of Snapper Bay, the Hammerhead Light was more than a lighthouse, but a symbol of safety.'

Source: Colin Thiele Classics ed.

7 5 y separately published work icon Magpie Island Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1974 Z667837 1974 single work children's fiction
5 6 y separately published work icon Climb a Lonely Hill Lilith Norman , Sydney London : Collins , 1970 Z863545 1970 single work children's fiction children's Chronicles a brother's and sister's efforts to survive when an auto accident strands them in the Australian bush.
2 y separately published work icon Nature Walkabout Vincent Serventy , Sydney : Reed , 1967 Z958497 1967 single work autobiography
5 7 y separately published work icon Bottersnikes and Gumbles S. A. Wakefield , Desmond Digby (illustrator), Sydney : Collins , 1967 Z667712 1967 single work children's fiction children's humour fantasy

'Bottersnikes are the laziest creatures, probably, in the whole world.

They are too lazy to dig burrows, like rabbits, or to find hollow trees to live in as the small animals do, and would be horrified at the work of building nests, like birds. Bottersnikes find their homes readymade, in rubbish heaps. When they find a pile of tins, pots, pans and junk, they think it is lovely, and crawl in. And live there, sleeping mostly. Best of all they like the rubbish heaps along dusty roadsides in the lonely Australian bush, where they can sleep for weeks, undisturbed.' (Publication Summary)

2 1 y separately published work icon The Crew of the Merlin Joan Phipson , London Sydney : Constable Young Books Angus and Robertson , 1966 Z797916 1966 single work children's fiction children's
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