The story of a boy and his pelican, Mr Percival, who live on the South Australian Coorong.
'A young boy befriends an Aboriginal man and a pelican. One day he is forced to choose between his beloved companions and the often cruel outside world.'
Source: Screen Australia.
'Young Storm Boy lives a simple yet free life on the coastal wilds of the South Australian Coorong, combing the beaches with his reclusive father, Hideaway Tom.
'During a long summer, he makes two friends who will shepherd him from childhood into adulthood: the jester Fingerbone Bill, who teaches him about his country; and Mr Percival, an orphaned pelican who prepares Storm Boy for the wider world with a poignant lesson about love, loss and letting go.'
Source: Queensland Theatre Company.
Lesson plan by Anthony Shaw for the 'Teaching Classic Australian Children's Fiction' Exhibition for AustLit.
Colin Thiele's Storm Boy was translated into Warlpiri by Valerie Patterson Napanangka: the text was circulated through community, but not formally published.
See, for example, Design & Art Australia Online (https://www.daao.org.au/bio/valerie-napanangka-patterson/) and Paradesic (https://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2006/09/marking-their-passing/ (Sighted: 22/07/2024)
This Exhibition is a collection of extensive teaching resources for classic Australian children's texts. The resources are aimed at upper primary school and lower high school teachers. The collection forms part of Anthony Shaw's Learning with Literature program.