Colin Thiele bibliography

The following is a complete list of books and other writings by Colin Thiele, the prolific Australian children's writer.

Children's books

• Ab Diver, 1988
• Aftershock: The sequel to Shatterbelt, 1992
• Albatross Two, 1974
• The Australian Mother Goose, 1992
• The Australian Mother Goose II, 1994
• Ballander Boy, 1979
• Blue Fin, 1969
• Brahminy: The Story of a Boy and a Sea Eagle, 1995
• The Cave & The Glory of a Galumph, 1989
• Chadwick's Chimney, 1979
• Charlie Vet's Pet, 1992
• Coorong Captive, 1985
• Dad Drains The Oil, 1988
• Dangerous Secret, 1997
• Danny's Egg, 1989
• Emma Keppler: Two Months In Her Life, 1991
• Farmer Pelz's Pumpkins, 1990
• Farmer Schulz's Ducks, 1986
• February Dragon, 1966
• The Fire In The Stone, 1973
• Flash Flood, 1970
• Flip-Flop and Tiger Snake, 1970

Gemma's Christmas Eve, 1994 Gloop: The Bunyip, 1962 The Hammerhead Light, 1976 High Valley Montville, 1996 Jodie's Journey, 1988 Klontarf, 1988 Landslide, 1997 Little Tom Little, 1981 Magpie Island, 1974 The March of Mother Duck, 1993 Martin's Mountain, 1993 The Monster Fish, 1999 Mrs Munch and Puffing Billy, 1967 The Mystery of the Black Pyramid, 1996 Pannikin and Pinta, 2000 Patch Comes Home, 1982 Pinquo, 1983 Pitch The Pony, 1984 Potch Goes Town The Drain, 1984 The Rim of the Morning: Six Stories, 1966 River Murray Mary, 1979 Rotten Egg, & Paterson To The Rescue, 1989

The Sea Caves, 2000. Seashores and Shadows, 1985. The Shadow on the Hills, 1977 Shadow Shark, 1985 Sharks in the Shadows, 1985 Shatterbelt, 1987 The Sknuk, 1977 Speedy, 1991 Stories Short and Tall, 1989 Storm Boy, 1963 Sun on the Stubble, 1961 Sun Warm Memories: The Colin Thiele Reciter, 2003 Swan Song, 2002 Tanya and Trixie, 1980 Thiele Tales: Three Long Stories for Children, 1980 Timmy, 1993 Uncle Gustav's Ghosts, 1974 The Undercover Secret, 1982 The Valley Between, 1981 Wedgetail, 2003 Wendy's Whale, 1999 Yellow Jacket Jock, 1969

Fiction

• Labourers in the Vineyard, 1970
• The Seeds' Inheritance, 1986

Short Story

• The Ghost of Gartenschmuck, from A Handful of Ghosts: Thirteen Eerie Tales by Australian authors; collected by Barbara Ker Wilson. 1976

Educational

• Australian Poets Speak; Edited by Colin Thiele and Ian Mudie. 1961
• Beginners, Please! One-Act Plays for Schools; Compiled by Colin Thiele and Greg Branson. 1964
• Blue Fin, Educational Companion. 1978
• The Book and the Media, 1976
• Favourite Australian Stories; Compiled by Colin Thiele. 1963
• Handbook to Favourite Australian Stories; Compiled by Colin Thiele. 1964
• The Living Stage: One-Act Plays for Secondary Schools: Book 2; Edited by Colin Thiele and Greg Branson. 1970
• Looking at Poetry; Edited by Colin Thiele. 1960
• One-Act Plays for Secondary Schools: Book 3; Compiled by Colin Thiele and Greg Branson.
• Plays for Young Players; Compiled by Colin Thiele and Greg Branson. 1970
• Setting the Stage: One-Act Plays for Secondary Schools: Book 1; Edited by Colin Thiele and Greg Branson. 1969
• The State of our State: Peeping At South Australia, Adelaide, 1952
• Storm Boy, Educational Companion. 1976

Verse and Prose

The Golden Lightning: Poems, 1950 In Charcoal and Conte, 1966 Jindyworobak Anthology, 1953 Man in a Landscape, 1960 Poems in my Luggage, 1989 Progress to Denial: A Poem, 1945

Reckless Rhymes, 1994 Selected Verse, 1970 Songs for my Thongs, 1982 Splinters and Shards: Poems, 1945 Tea for Three, by Max Fatchen and Colin Thiele. 1994

General Literature

The Adelaide Story, 1982 Barossa Valley Sketchbook, 1968 The Benedictions of Benjamin Gates, by Arthur Burfield and Colin Thiele. 1977 The Best of Colin Thiele, 1980 The Bight, 1976 Coorong, 1972 Grains of Mustard Seed, with research by Ron Gibbs. 1975 Masterpieces, 1977 Heysen of Hahndorf, 1968 Heysen's Early Hahndorf, The Early Works of Sir Hans Heysen. 1976

Lincoln's Place: The Story of an Australian Pioneer Farm, 1978 The Little Desert, 1975 Maneater Man: Alf Dean, The World's Greatest Shark Hunter, 1979 Passing Glances and Glancing Passes: The Role of Teachers Centres, 1977 Range Without Man: The North Flinders, 1974 Ranger's Territory: The Story of Frank Woerle, as told to Colin Thiele. 1987 Some Ideas For Conference Organisers, by Ron O'Hare and Colin Thiele. 1977 Something To Crow About: A Keyhole Glimpse of South Australia, 1986 South Australia Revisited, 1986 With Dew On My Boots: A Childhood Revisited, 1997

Videos

Cigarettes and Matches, from Sun on the Stubble. 1979 The Fire In The Stone

Storm Boy, SAFC. 1976 Sun on the Stubble, 1996

Spoken Word Recordings

Anna, from 5UV. 27 August 1984 Ballander Boy Burke and Wills, AFoA. 1960 Colin Thiele Travelogue, 1977 Emma Keppler, 1993 Farmer Schulz's Ducks, 1987 Final Assembly of Wattle Park Teachers College, 1972 In Charcoal & Conte:, Series: Poets Tongue, 1966 Introducing Blue Fin, 1978 Look to the Future, 1992 Magpie Island, 1995 Pitch the Pony Potch Goes Down The Drain Public Reading of Poetry and Prose, 1977

The Seed's Inheritance, 1988 The Shadow on the Hills, from ABC. 26 September 1979 The Shark Fishers, from ABC The Sknuks, 1987 Snook Takes A Dip?:, Adapted from the novel Blue Fin Speedy, 1992 Stories Short and Tall, 1990 Storm Boy: A Dramatisation, 1994 The Sun on the Stubble, from ABC. 1995 Talking & Reading, 1980 Tigersnook:, Based on Blue Fin, 1979 The Tuna That Fell Off A Truck, 1979 The Undercover Secret, from ABC. 1996 Winners! 2, from ABC. 1998 With Dew On My Boots, from ABC Audio. 1997

Articles and Miscellanea

The articles here are writings with portions, though not the entire work necessarily, attributed to Colin Thiele.

• Kapunda Memories
• Hearts & Minds: Creative Australians and the Environment, with M Pollak and M MacNabb., 2000
• D.B. Kerr and P.G. Pfeiffer's, Lost Angry Penguins, 2000
• ReSearch98: Spotlight On Research In Education, 1998
• Believe In Yourself: Who'd Want To Be A Writer?, 1996
• Big Rig, in Big Rig and Other Poems, 1995
• A Special Place In A Writer's World, 1992
• Meet Colin Thiele, 1992
• Dragnet, in After Dark: Seven Tales To Read At Night, 1992
• Happy Birthday Rippa, 1991
• Hi, I've Got Brown Eyes, from Classroom: The Magazine For Teachers, 1990
• The Kindest Cut: Arthritis Snd Surgery, 1990
• Behind Books, from The Spirit Of Place, 1990
• Change and Short Change, 1990
• The Candle and the Star, 1988
• Foreword in Peter Killey's, My Word - My World, 1986
• Society Expects Too Much Of Education, David Tonkin interviews Colin Thiele. 1985
• A Child's Christmas, from SAM: South Australian Magazine. 1983
• Inside story: Profiles in children's literature, 1983
• Contributions to, Unlimited Scope, 1983
• Foreword in, An Australian Bush Who's Who: Verses and Illustrations, 1983
• Colin Thiele Opinion: The Journal of S.A.E.T.A., September 1982
• Origins and Odysseys: Writers' Childhood Influences, July 1982
• The Part-time Writer: The Agony and the Ecstasy, May 1980
• Childhood and Change, November 1980
• Sunrise and Starshine: A Boyhood Revisited, in The Early Dreaming: Australian Children's Authors on Childhood, 1980
• Foreword from, South Australian Parks and Conservation, November 1979
• The Bathers Opinion: The Journal of S.A.E.T.A., March 1979
• A World of Living Books, 1978
• Foreword from, Our magazine: The Writers Club of the Helping Hand, 1977
• Shall we make a film of your book?, 1976
• Roll on Port Lincoln, 1973
• The Dragon's Rampage, from The Too-Many Professors and Other Stories, 1973
• A Farewell to Wattle Park, 1972
• The Quality of Experience, May 1972
• Things Books Grow From, or Why Books Germinate, and How They Are Affected By The Climate and The Gardner, August 1970
• The Educator at the Party, November 1969
• No Man Bathes Twice In The Same River, August 1968
• Grass Roots and Far Horizons, 1967
• Four poems, for ASEA Bulletin, October 1967
  • Wintering
  • Eclipse
  • Radiation Victim
  • Shall Such A Love
• Creative English in Primary Schools, November 1967
• Storm Boy from Woman's Day, March 1965
• Lady Franklin in South Australia Tradition, April 1964
• Lutheran Landing, Port Misery, 1838, November 1963
• Flying the Bight, November 1962
• Dark Room, November 1962
• School Hymn, for Seacombe High School, 1962
• The Secondary School Teacher, May 1958
• Two Homecomers, November 1943

References

• Sourced from Library of University of South Australia
• Works by or about Colin Thiele in libraries (WorldCat catalog)