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Issue Details: First known date: 1974... 1974 Uncle Gustav's Ghosts
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'Benny Geister's Uncle Gustav meets the first Unseen Presence on the Bethel Road, near the place where Maria Rollenberg and Marcus Kreutzer mysteriously disappeared on their wedding night half a century before. Maria, complete with wedding gown and veil, appears after a tin-kettling for two newlyweds. From then on the fun is fast and furious, as a succession of ghosts and ghoulies, phantom horses and poltergeists plague the Geister household and the community at large.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (New Holland 2005 edition).

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Sun on the Stubble The Valley Between Noel Robinson , ABC Television (publisher), ( dir. Robert Marchand ) Lindfield Australia Germany : Film Australia ABC Television ZDF , 1996 Z1057268 1996 series - publisher film/TV

Six-part drama series about a fourteen-year-old German immigrant, Bruno Gunther, growing up in a small wheat-farming community in Australia during the 1930s. Based on Colin Thiele's novels The Valley Between, Sun on the Stubble, Uncle Gustav's Ghosts, and The Shadow on the Hills.

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    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Rigby , 1974 .
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      Extent: 143p.
      ISBN: 0851798187
      Series: Rigby Opal Books Rigby (publisher), series - publisher
    • Dee Why West, Northern Beaches area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Rigby , 1986 .
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      Extent: 144p.
      ISBN: 0727020188
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    y separately published work icon Sun on the Stubble Omnibus Colin Thiele , Sydney : Lansdowne , 1996 Z1057245 1996 selected work children's fiction children's Sydney : Lansdowne , 1996
    • Frenchs Forest, Killarney Heights - Frenchs Forest area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: New Holland , 2005 .
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      Extent: 1 v.p.
      ISBN: 1741102375
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y separately published work icon The Sun on the Stubble Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1961 Z1057248 1961 single work children's fiction humour children's 'From the classic Australian children's author. Originally pubished in 1961, this is the coming-of-age story of a boy and his immigrant family in Depression-era Australia: Bruno Gunther lives on a farm in South Australia, where adventures spring up like wheat shoots. He has to cope with his stern dad, his mother and family--and trickiest of all is the new teacher in town, who is too alert for comfort. Then there are the local arguements, that all seem to flare up around complicated bits of machinery, like water pumps and cars. All they really need is a little help from Bruno to sort everything out . . . . For young readers ages 9-14. This novel and three others by Thiele inspired an Australian TV series, 'Sun on the Stubble': The Valley Between, Uncle Gustav's Ghosts & The Shadow on the Hills.' 

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Prolific as Ever Terry O'Connor , 1996 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 June 1996; (p. wkd 8)
Colin Thiele : Universality in the Heart of Man Walter McVitty , 1981 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Innocence and Experience : Essays on Contemporary Australian Children's Writers 1981; (p. 197-226)
Prolific as Ever Terry O'Connor , 1996 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 June 1996; (p. wkd 8)
Colin Thiele : Universality in the Heart of Man Walter McVitty , 1981 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Innocence and Experience : Essays on Contemporary Australian Children's Writers 1981; (p. 197-226)
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