List of works by Colin Thiele

"The Complete Bibliography of Colin Thiele, the prolific Australian Children's writer. For his biography, see Colin Thiele."

Colin Thiele's literary works ranged from the early twentieth century until the very early twenty-first century until just prior to his death in September 2006. The primary component of Thiele's work was children's literature and educational support for teachers, primarily educating in the areas of English, Drama and Australian history.

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
* 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

hort 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

poken 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

External links

Sourced from [http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/resources/collections/thiele/biblio.asp Library of "University of South Australia"]