Magpie Island

by Colin Thiele | Children's Books |
ISBN: 085179789x Global Overview for this book
Registered by catsalive of Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on 9/23/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, September 23, 2007
Colin Thiele takes us to the the islands of offshore South Australia. Gaunt, windsewpt and solitary, it is a strangely perfect setting for the story of a lonely magpie, "a castaway, a Robinson Crusoe... a dot on a tree, that was a twig on a hill, that was a lump on an island, that was a barrow-load of rock."

This book is much more than a story about a magpie. It is a story about loneliness and fortitude, joy and tragedy, struggle and failure; a story marked by that compassionate insight into the meaning of solitude which illuminates so much of Thiele's writing. Inevitably people have compared it to Storm Boy, and found it equally poignant and haunting.

Beautifully illustrated by Roger Haldane.

Fabulous book!

Released 15 yrs ago (4/3/2008 UTC) at Mt Druitt Hospital, Railway St in Mount Druitt, New South Wales Australia

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Journal Entry 3 by tiarne from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, June 26, 2008
i recived the book from Mt. Druitt Hospital and now am passing it on to whalan primary school. I didnt enjoy this book very much because it was to long for a kid of 5 yrs old.

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