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One of Australia's favourite stories for children, now a major motion picture.

About the Author

Colin Thiele (1920–2006) was born in Eudunda, South Australia, in 1920. Colin Thiele has published almost 80 books in various fields including poetry, prose, fiction, drama, history, criticism and biography. Some of his numerous titles are The Fire in the Stone, Storm Boy, Magpie Island, Poems in My Luggage and The Hammerhead Light. His work has won many awards and citations of merit and has been translated and published extensively overseas. Roger Cardwell's name has been associated with the Adelaide media for more than 50 years. Throughout the 1960s he was the host and performer of the Australian national TV show Country and Western Hour and Adelaide ADS7 TV show Country Style. Roger was also one of Australia's leading TV news anchor men for over 20 years. His voice was heard regularly on radio, and though it has been a while since he has graced our screens, his listeners at Adelaide’s Burnside Library – where he took part in their book reading program supported by the Royal Society for the Blind – hung on every word.