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Mr Percival (1976 – 2 September 2009) was an Australian pelican, noted for his appearance in the 1976 Australian film Storm Boy. He was one of three trained pelicans used in the film, based on the 1964 novel of the same name. He lived at the Marineland aquarium at West Beach until it closed in 1988, then at the Adelaide Zoo. [1]
Storm Boy is a 1964 Australian children's novel written by Colin Thiele, about a boy and his pelican. [1] The story, set in the Coorong region of South Australia , [ 2 ] focuses on the relationships the boy has with his father Hide-Away Tom, the pelican, and an outcast Australian Aboriginal man called Fingerbone.
Colin Milton Thiele AC (/ ˈ t iː l i /; [1] 16 November 1920 – 4 September 2006) was an Australian author and educator. He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novels Storm Boy, Blue Fin, the Sun on the Stubble series, and February Dragon.
Colin Thiele’s 1963 children’s novel about a boy and his beloved pelican receives tender and touching treatment in its second film adaptation. Adding a contemporary wrap-around story to the ...
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Storm Boy is a 1976 Australian drama film based on the 1964 book of the same name by Colin Thiele, about a lonely boy and his pet pelicans living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. It was the third feature film made by the South Australian Film Corporation , and is a highlight of the New Wave of Australian Cinema from the 1970s.
Robert and Trude Steen thought their son Mats’s entire world was confined to his wheelchair. As a child, Mats had been diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a genetic disorder that sparks ...