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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 High Valley
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

High Valley is a sleepy, remote town. The soil is rich, the rainfall heavy, the climate warm, the farms and gardens green, the people happy ... until the arrival of two strangers changes their lives forever ...

Exhibitions

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Montville, Nambour area, Nambour - Palmwoods - Yandina area, Sunshine Coast Hinterland, South East Queensland, Queensland,: Walter McVitty Books , 1996 .
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      Extent: 113p.
      ISBN: 0949183989

Works about this Work

Conversations : Colin Thiele and James Moloney James Moloney (interviewer), 1996 single work interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 11 no. 5 1996; (p. 12-15)
Untitled Mandy Cheetham , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 11 no. 3 1996; (p. 32)

— Review of High Valley Colin Thiele , 1996 single work children's fiction
Untitled Laurie Copping , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 40 no. 3 1996; (p. 28)

— Review of The Mystery of the Black Pyramid Colin Thiele , 1996 single work children's fiction ; High Valley Colin Thiele , 1996 single work children's fiction
Untitled Laurie Copping , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 40 no. 3 1996; (p. 28)

— Review of The Mystery of the Black Pyramid Colin Thiele , 1996 single work children's fiction ; High Valley Colin Thiele , 1996 single work children's fiction
Untitled Mandy Cheetham , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 11 no. 3 1996; (p. 32)

— Review of High Valley Colin Thiele , 1996 single work children's fiction
Conversations : Colin Thiele and James Moloney James Moloney (interviewer), 1996 single work interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 11 no. 5 1996; (p. 12-15)

Awards

1997 winner The Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature 'Colin Thiele was honoured not only for High Valley, but also for his numerous other children's books with an environmental ethic - the environmental equivalent, you might say, of Oscar's Lifetime Achievement Award.' (Wilderness Society website)
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