February Dragon
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Bottlebrush Barn, the home of the Pine family, lies half-way between Melbourne and Adelaide. A peaceful place of cattle and sheep, possums and unusual pets, pasture and scrub, the farm is linked to the township of Upper Gumbowie by a winding road that skirts the uncleared Big Scrub. Along the road a school bus lollops and lurches, carrying the children of the district - the three young Pines, Don and Debbie Dobson, 'Burp' Heaslip, and others - to school. The story is concerned with their daily adventures - fishing for yabbies, taming unusual pets, exhibiting in the local Show, astonishing their teachers, using turpentine to cure their dogs of scurf, and all the rest. Like all Thiele's fiction, the book is more than a collection of lively anecdotes. It is the story of the fearful February Dragon - the bushfire - and how, unleashed by the stupidity or the arrogant carelessness of people such as Aunt Hester, it brings tragedy to hundreds of innocent victims every year. This moving story, which was written with the encouragement of the Bushfire Research Council of South Australia, contains a message for all Australians, young and adult alike. It is a message for all Australians, young and adult like. It is a rattling good yarn in the tradition of Colin Thiele's early fiction, Storm Boy and Sun on the Stubble. Rubbing on spine and book cover.
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