Colin Thiele

• May-2025
• / General Fiction

Magpie shot off like a bolt from a catapult. He whizzed up into the sky above the hill and then swept down in a fierce circle around the she-oaks, his wings hissing through the air like knives. Magpie is marooned alone on an island. He is a sad, lone...

• May-2025
• / General Fiction

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 th...

• Nov-2022
• / General Fiction

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 ...

• May-2013
• / Action Adventure

River Murray Mary is a delightful book for younger readers from Australia’s master storyteller. Mary lives on a farm on the banks of the mighty Murray. Her many adventures include some hair-raising encounters with tiger snakes, saving her beloved d...

• May-2013
• / Action Adventure

A heartwarming adventure from Australia’s master storyteller.Speedy is the fastest, cleverest dolphin ever to swim the waters around Kangaroo Island. To ten-year-old Mike and his fisherman father Ben, he is also a very special friend, always there ...

• May-2013
• / Action Adventure

An adventure story combining excitement, drama, tragedy and hope, set in a fragile natural environment.In Swan Song, Colin Thiele revisits the Coorong, the haunting setting of his classic story STORM BOY. Mitch Bird also lives in the Coorong. The son...

• May-2013
• / General Fiction

• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction

'The bird hung in the air above the river. It was so low that Luke could see it clearly, a big nuggety bird with strong talons and curving beak. Its feathers were beautiful â€" a lovely chestnut colour on the back and sides and bright white on the he...

• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction

Two classic short stories from Colin Thiele.The CaveJenny and Tom would never have found the cave if it hadn’t been for the big storm. Yet within twenty-four hours they both wish they had never set eyes on it … or ventured inside!The Glory of Gal...

• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction

When Danny finds an emu egg in the bush outside town and is determined to hatch it, his problems begin. It seems that Hacker, the school bully, has other ideas, and when he releases a hungry goanna and steals the egg at the school pet show, Danny has...

• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction

A gripping tale of high adventure from master storyteller Colin Thiele.Twelve-year-old school friends Sam and Nick are exploring an old shipwreck when they discover a hidden cave in the cliffs nearby. Forbidden to climb on the dangerous cliffs, they ...

• Jan-2012
• / General Fiction

THE FIERY SALAMANDER has hot scales and breathes flames on anyone who comes near him. He walks around on hot coals and the other animals don't like him one bit. They need to find a way to stop him, but he is so much bigger! Sometimes it's the littl...

• Jan-2012
• / General Fiction

Andy is fascinated by wedgetail eagles. He lies on the shed roofs of his family’s farm and watches them cruising about on their huge wings, high above him in the sunlit air. They are like skaters skimming on ice, gliding in vast arcs and circles. O...

• Jan-2011
• / General Fiction

Bruno Gunther lives on a farm in South Australia, where adventures spring up like wheat shoots. He has to cope with his stern Dad, his Mother and family – and trickiest of all is the new teacher in town, who is too alert for comfort. Then there...

• Aug-2006
• / General Fiction

Mysterious accidents threaten Robby, the new kid on the block in Twilight, a town where ghostly legends flourish. Does Robby dare to discover what haunts the old Children's Home, which holds the scariest sight in Twilight? Grades 3-6...

• Dec-2004
• / General Fiction

Fourteen-year-old Joe had never heard of Wayward Island before he came to live with his cousin, Meg, and her family at Cockle Bay. Nor had he ever heard of Scarface! Wayward Island, out to sea, is a spellbinding place of windswept hills and beckoning...

• Oct-1990
• / General Fiction

Twelve-year-old Jodie, disabled by juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and no longer able to ride her beloved horse Monarch, faces a crisis when the two of them are alone at her remote Australia home and a devastating fire approaches....

• Apr-1988
• / General Fiction

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction

• Apr-1976
• / General Fiction

An offshore oil well provokes mixed reactions from the people of a southern Australian fishing village, provides a fascinating job for fourteen-year-old Link Banks, and threatens ecological disaster when it blows out...

• Sep-1974
• / General Fiction

• 1971
• / General Fiction

Storm Boy and his father live alone in a humpy among the sandhills between the Southern Ocean and the Coorong â€" a lonely, narrow waterway that runs parallel to a long stretch of the South Australian coast. Among the teeming birdlife of the Cooro...

• 1966
• / General Fiction

The three Pine kids truly belong in the bushland. And they have nicknames to match-Resin, Turps and Columbine. They like fishing for yabbies, taming unusual pets, riding in the local show and astonishing their teachers. But their usual adventures are...

• / General Fiction

An Australian children's classic.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...