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y separately published work icon Tigersnook : Based on Colin Thiele's Novel, 'Blue Fin' extract   children's fiction   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 Tigersnook : Based on Colin Thiele's Novel, 'Blue Fin'
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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: L. and S. Publishing , 1979 .
      Extent: 24 p., 1 sound cassette (21 min.), 4 p.p.
      Description: col.illus., 1 teacher's notes.
      Note/s:
      • Contents : Side a : A word for word reading of the story in the booklet -- Side B : A reading of an associated passage from the novel. Teacher's guide gives word analysis and readibility assessments
      ISBN: 0868980153
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y separately published work icon Blue Fin Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1969 Z918946 1969 single work children's fiction children's
— Appears in: Storm Boy ; Blue Fin 1982;

'Everyone in Port Lincoln thinks Snook Pascoe is a loser. People joke about his clumsiness; his teacher ridicules him and even his father, skipper of the tuna boat Blue Fin, is convinced that Snook will never amount to anything. After all, tuna fishing is a hard life for ‘real men’.

'When Snook is allowed, for once, to sail on Blue Fin he faces a terrifying disaster. A waterspout engulfs the ship, the deck is swept clean, the radio and rudder are wrecked, the engine is disabled, the crew is lost overboard and Snook’s father lies unconscious down below. Snook is on his own, far out to sea…' (Publication summary)
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