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y separately published work icon Dusty : The Story of a Sheep Dog single work   children's fiction   children's  
Alternative title: Dusty : A Dog of the Sheep Country
Issue Details: First known date: 1946... 1946 Dusty : The Story of a Sheep Dog
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Dusty Sonia Borg , ( dir. John Richardson ) Australia : Dusty Productions , 1983 Z1670081 1983 single work film/TV

Dusty is part Kelpie, but his mother was a dingo. He was reared by dingoes but later bought as a puppy by an ageing bushman, Tom Lincoln, who trains him to be a champion sheep dog. When a spate of sheep killings begins, Dusty is the obvious suspect, and the old man and his dog take to the road and return to the bush.

form y separately published work icon Dusty Patricia Johnson , John Misto , Graeme Farmer , ( dir. Colin Budds ) Australia : Dusty Productions Network Ten , 1988 Z1670085 1988 series - publisher film/TV

Dusty is part Kelpie and part dingo. He was reared by dingoes but later bought as a puppy by an ageing bushman, Tom Lincoln, who trains him to be a champion sheep dog. The wild dingo side of Dusty is, however, never far from the surface. Although Tom is unaware of Dusty's lineage, the local farmers recognise it immediately, and he has to fend off numerous attempts to kill Dusty.

Notes

  • Dedication: For Mareeba.
  • 'The manuscript of this book, entered under the title "Stranger", and the pen-name "Tarboy", was the winner of the Melbourne Argus and Australasian Post 500 pound Novel Competition, 1946' - publisher's blurb in 1946 edition.
  • Indexing in progress. Details of other reprints and editions to be established.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: Dusty : A Novel

Other Formats

  • Also braille, sound recording.

Works about this Work

What I’m Reading Rowena Lennox , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2013;
Untitled Marion Bannister , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 34 no. 3 1990; (p. 26-27)

— Review of Man-Shy Frank Dalby Davison , 1931 single work children's fiction ; Dusty : The Story of a Sheep Dog Frank Dalby Davison , 1946 single work children's fiction
Custody Battles and Dingoes Tony Morphett , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 27 no. 11 1983; (p. 9-11)
form y separately published work icon Frank Dalby Davison : Part 2 - From Dusty to The White Thorntree Owen Webster (interviewer), 1969 Melbourne : ABC Television , 1969 Z1567204 1969 single work film/TV interview Part 2 of a two-part interview with Frank Dalby Davison. The interviews were filmed at Davison's property at Arthur's Creek, Victoria.
Comparing the Critics : 'Two of a Trade Can Ne'er Agree' 1950 single work review
— Appears in: The Austrovert , December no. 1 1950; (p. 7)

— Review of Tomorrow and Tomorrow M. Barnard Eldershaw , 1947 single work novel ; Dusty : The Story of a Sheep Dog Frank Dalby Davison , 1946 single work children's fiction ; Dust or Polish? Norman Lindsay , 1950 single work novel
Comparing the Critics : 'Two of a Trade Can Ne'er Agree' 1950 single work review
— Appears in: The Austrovert , December no. 1 1950; (p. 7)

— Review of Tomorrow and Tomorrow M. Barnard Eldershaw , 1947 single work novel ; Dusty : The Story of a Sheep Dog Frank Dalby Davison , 1946 single work children's fiction ; Dust or Polish? Norman Lindsay , 1950 single work novel
Book Chronicle Q , 1947 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 6 no. 2 1947; (p. 132-136)

— Review of Zwishn Himl un Waser Herz Bergner , 1946 single work novel ; An Australian Muster 1946 anthology short story prose extract ; Cookabundy Bridge and Other Stories Brian James , 1946 selected work short story ; Leviathan's Inch Brian Elliott , 1946 single work novel ; Now that We're Laughing Margaret Trist , 1945 single work novel ; Men Against the Earth John K. Ewers , 1946 single work novel ; My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn Miles Franklin , 1946 single work novel ; Tell Us About the Turkey, Jo : Short Stories Alan Marshall , 1946 selected work short story ; Twenty Great Australian Stories 1946 anthology short story ; The Courtship of Uncle Henry : A Collection of Tales and Stories Dal Stivens , 1946 selected work short story ; The Twig Is Bent Capel Boake , 1946 single work novel ; Lost Haven Kylie Tennant , 1946 single work novel ; Dusty : The Story of a Sheep Dog Frank Dalby Davison , 1946 single work children's fiction
A Dogged Novel 1946 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 25 December vol. 67 no. 3489 1946; (p. 2)

— Review of Dusty : The Story of a Sheep Dog Frank Dalby Davison , 1946 single work children's fiction
The World of Nature George Farwell , 1946 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Library Journal , December vol. 1 no. 6 1946; (p. 231-232)

— Review of Dusty : The Story of a Sheep Dog Frank Dalby Davison , 1946 single work children's fiction
Human Dog O. N. Burgess , 1947 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 8 no. 2 1947; (p. 117-119)

— Review of Dusty : The Story of a Sheep Dog Frank Dalby Davison , 1946 single work children's fiction
'Book News' Arranges for Exhibit J. U. , 1947 single work column
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Library Journal , April vol. 1 no. 10 1947; (p. 443)
Book News persuades the Department of Post War Reconstruction to include Australian literature in the Australian section of the British Empire Exhibition at the Royal Easter Show. Book News calls once more for a National Book League.
U.S.A. Reading Australians C. Hartley Grattan , 1947 single work extract
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , August vol. 2 no. 2 1947; (p. 71)
form y separately published work icon Frank Dalby Davison : Part 2 - From Dusty to The White Thorntree Owen Webster (interviewer), 1969 Melbourne : ABC Television , 1969 Z1567204 1969 single work film/TV interview Part 2 of a two-part interview with Frank Dalby Davison. The interviews were filmed at Davison's property at Arthur's Creek, Victoria.
Custody Battles and Dingoes Tony Morphett , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 27 no. 11 1983; (p. 9-11)
Notes and Comments [Southerly, vol.8 no.4 1947] 1947 single work column
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 8 no. 4 1947; (p. 255-256)
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