Storm Boy

Storm Boy
by Colin Thiele
Oh my gosh! I thought I would read this to cheer me up! I didn't know it was a tear jeaker! Ugh! I cried like a baby!
I then decided to pour salt in my wounds by watching the movie! I found it on Amazon Prime and really plunged the knife in my heart deep!
Reminded me of the Australian version of Where the Red Fern Grows.
Oh, the sadness!

Storm Boy is a very good book, every page I i finished I wanted to read the next. It's quite a sad story but it's not that sad. I recomend this book to any child betwen 10 and 14. Personaly I really enjoyed reading it and the text intriged meto read on every night.
It's set on a beach of the Coorong River in South Australia. The young boy finds and saves three little baby pelicans.

By Remy Livingston

One of those books I've always meant to read but haven't until now. This piece of Classic Australian Children's Fiction can easily be enjoyed by everyone. Storm Boy is a boy growing up with his father in a beach shack down among the dunes of an isolated coastline. Both enjoy their solitary life and have little outside contact until three orphaned pelicans come into their lives. This is a book you can read in a day and shows us how special connections can be made with any living creature.

I don't know what happened to my review of this, but I do remember liking it a lot. Too mawkish, perhaps, for the full four stars. Still, recommended.

A real tear-jerker from my childhood - even the movie version requires a box of kleenex.

Storm Boy lives free with his dad, Hide-away, and their friend Fingerbone in a remote part of Australia. None of the conveniences of modern life are available to them, but life is so happy that no one misses any of these things. One day, Storm Boy saves a pelican and the pelican becomes his very closest friend. A gentle story of a simple time and place. A 1001 CBYMRBYGU.

Haida Legend