This fast-paced story about an oil spill on the coast has delighted and informed young readers for over 30 years. From the moment the giant oil rig Albatross Two arrives near the little fishing village of Ripple Bay and begins drilling, it dominates the lives of everyone in the community. When there is an oil spill, Tina Banks is in a race to rescue the sea birds along the coast.

Albatross two

Colin Thiele

Children's Books

Collins

FIGHT AGAINST ALBATROSS TWO

Fight Against Albatross Two

Harpercollins Juvenile Books

Danny's problems begin the day he finds an emu egg in the scrub and takes it home. Will he be able to keep the egg warm and alive? And can he keep it safe from Hacker, the school bully?

Danny's Egg

Classics

Angus and Robertson

Storm Boy

A boy living on a desolate beach in Australia rescues a baby pelican that becomes his constant companion.

Literature & Fiction

Storm Boy likes to wander alone along the fierce deserted coast of South Australia's Coorong. He and his father live a reclusive life among the dunes that face out into the Southern Ocean. After a pelican mother is shot, Storm Boy rescues three chicks; he names them Mr Proud, Mr Ponder and Mr Percival, and nurses them back to health. His father, known to some as 'Hideaway Tom,' forces Storm Boy to release the birds, but Mr Percival returns. The boy and the pelican form a special bond. Mr Percival is shot by hunters and dies. The story also looks at the conflict between Storm Boy's lifestyle and the externally imposed requirement for him to attend school.Storm Boy was made into a major feature film and won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film in 1977.

Seal Books

Storm Boy: Picture Book

Three great stories by Australia's favorite writer for children. Now for the first time in one volume. 1) GLOOP THE BUNYIP: The story in verse of Gloop the Bunyip, who had a wonderful life until the white people came and chopped up all te bushland round his billabong...and then began to pump out the water, too. He expected to be caught and imprisoned in the zoo, but right at the lat minute the unexpected happened and gave Gloop a wonderful new lifestyle. 2) FLIP-FLOP AND THE TIGER SNAKE: Flip-Flop was a frog, who lived in a pond on a country homestead. Peter Martin was a boy who lived on the homestead. Peter and his friends used to swim in Flip-Flop's waterhole, and frighten all the frogs with their mighty splashing. Tiger Snake liked frogs to eat, and one night he almost caught Flip-Flop. The little frog escaped into Peter's house, and Tiger Snake followed, and what happened next makes an exciting conclusion to the story. 3) FLASH FLOOD: Even-Stevens was nine years old when his family took him on holiday in the Flinders Ranges... not forgetting his dog Bullet. They towed their carvan over the hills and along the rocky roads, and one night they decided to camp in the bed of a dry creek. That was when the great Flash Flood came roaring down out of the hills. The rest of the story tells what happened to Even-Stevens, Bullet, and others in the family when the wall of water came charging across the plain. Great reading for boys and girls of almost any age...written with all the colour, flair, and humour that have made Colin Thiele into the best-loved children's writer in Australia.

Thiele Tales. Three Long Stories for Children

Rigby Publishers Limited

The Valley Between

Rigby Publication

Pinquo is a fairy penguin, who can swim, skip and dive faster than the blink of an eye. 
When Pinquo is wounded, the children Kirsty and Tim take him to Dr Piper, and they all look after Pinquo until he is ready to go to sea. 
Later the penguin with the droopy walk and kinky flipper comes back into their lives, with his new family. 
When disaster strikes Sickle Bay, Pinquo leads a mad stampede of a thousand frenzied penguins, to save the townspeople. 
Little Pinquo is a hero.

Pinquo

Lansdowne P, Australia

The Shadow on the Hills

RIGBY

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