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I wouldn’t make any changes to this book, it is just too good.

I would recommend this story for all ages because if you were too young to read yet, someone could read it to you, and you would still love the story. I love reading Storm Boy over and over again. If you are anything like me, you will get connected to the characters too and you will understand how they feel and think. He creates intriguing characters, and how he describes them so well and how much emotion he puts into it really catches me. He also has action after action, so the storyline doesn’t get boring. Once the pelicans become fully grown, Hideaway Tom makes Storm Boy set them free in the wildlife, even though he is sad and reluctant to do this.īut after they return from setting them free, one of the pelicans (I’m not telling you which one) is waiting for them and… (you will just have to read it to find out! )Ĭolin Thiele evokes strong emotions from the reader because he writes the right things at the right moments. Percival, who is the sick baby pelican (and is secretly Storm Boy’s favourite). Ponder, who is very wise and serious and the most famous of all, Mr.

The other main characters are of course the pelicans: Mr. “Anyone would think that I was grandfather pelican” said Hideaway, “by the way they always turn to me for food.” The character Hideaway Tom cares a lot about his son, and he loves fishing. He hates the shooters: “Dem bad fellows kill big pelican.” He mustn’t.” I can see a bit of myself in Storm Boy: I love the beach, I’m very adventurous and I love helping animals.įingerbone Bill is the Aboriginal character in the story who cares for the Coorong and understands the nature and the landscape. When he found the baby pelicans, he said desperately: “He mustn’t die. Storm Boy loves and cares for nature with all his heart. The way he writes about the characters makes you feel connected to them. Thiele makes me think that Storm Boy is real and that I’ve seen him before: he is that believable. He raises them to become big adult pelicans. The story starts when some hunters shoot some wild pelicans and Storm Boy finds an abandoned nest of three baby pelicans. He pulls me in because I live near Goolwa and I know the Coorong and this part of the Murray River. His home was the long, long snout of sandhills and scrub that curves away south-eastwards.”Ĭolin Thiele depicts this landscape perfectly. This story is about a young boy called Storm Boy, and his pelican friends: “Storm Boy lived between the Coorong and the sea.