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Alternative title: The Grimstones : Whirlwind
Is part of The Grimstones Asphyxia , 2012 series - author children's fiction (number 3 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Whirlwind
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'Hello, I'm Martha Grimstone, and I've inherited my father's gift for music. I can play notes that will bring sunshine, breezes and rain, and send clouds scudding across the sky. But I can't turn back a storm. If only I can convince Grandpa Grimstone that I can be trusted to leave the valley, I know just the place where I can learn more - but after my latest catastrophe there seems little hope of that. Perhaps Tillipilli and Ziphwort will help me...

The Grimstones: Whirlwind is a gothic fairytale about a whirlwind that refuses to be stomped on, two feisty Angora rabbits, and a disaster of exponential proportions that could be woven into something magnificent.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • East Melbourne, East Melbourne - Richmond area, Melbourne, Victoria,: Allen and Unwin , 2012 .
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      Image courtesy of Allen & Unwin
      Extent: 1v.p.
      Description: col. illus.
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      • For primary school age
      ISBN: 9781743313008 (pbk.)
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    y separately published work icon The Grimstones Collection Asphyxia , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2015 8348821 2015 selected work children's fiction children's fantasy

    'Hello, my name is Martha Grimstone. Shall I tell you my best secret? One day I'm going to be Lady Martha the Magnificent. I don't know what my special talent is, but I hope to find it any day now. I live in a grand old house in a valley full of rare and thirsty herbs, which my grandfather uses to heal and comfort people. If only he would let me into his apothecary so I could work on my very own spells.....The Grimstones Collection contains four gothic fairytales about a giant egg, a magical doll's house, a stubborn whirlwind, and a school of very great tradition... ' (Publication summary)

         Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2015
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Works about this Work

The Grimstones : Whirlwind Julie Hosking , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 2 February 2013; (p. 21)
— Review of Whirlwind Asphyxia , 2012 single work children's fiction
Strings Attached to These Stories Linda Morris , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 7 December 2012; (p. 14)
— Review of Whirlwind Asphyxia , 2012 single work children's fiction
Strings Attached to These Stories Linda Morris , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 7 December 2012; (p. 14)
— Review of Whirlwind Asphyxia , 2012 single work children's fiction
The Grimstones : Whirlwind Julie Hosking , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 2 February 2013; (p. 21)
— Review of Whirlwind Asphyxia , 2012 single work children's fiction
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