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A wonderful, warm, captivating tale. Patricia Wrightson is one of Australia's most distinguished writers for children. The boy who lives on his family's station discovers that this ancient being has woken up and is not in a good mood. The story is set in Australia, and involves an orphaned city boy named Simon Brent who comes to live on a acre sheep station called Wongadilla, in the Hunter Region , with his mother's second cousins, Edie and Charlie. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

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THE NARGUN AND THE STARS

Four stars, because at the end of the day this is a children's book, with everything that implies: Nargun and the Stars Author: An Australian fantasy which introduces us to the mythical beasts of this continent. Potkoorok 5 episodes, No wonder it won Book of the Year when it was first published. Young Simon has been very recently orphaned and was living in a Home until his mother's second cousin, Miss Edith Waters who has 'sudden grey eyes'arrived to offer him a home with her and her b This book was first published intge which time I was too old to be interested in children's books, and my own children were still in the future.

Wrightson employs a language and style in The Nargun and The Stars which is beautifully Australian, and wholly poetic in is description. You must be a registered user to nagrun the IMDb rating plugin.

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The Nargun is a creature drawn from tribal legends of the Gunai or Kurnai people of the area now known as the Mitchell River National Park in Victoria. We are never told how shattered and upset he is, we just see him etars action and we know. Simon Brent 5 episodes, Melissa Jaffer Nov 18, Luke rated it it was amazing.

The story was adapted for thhe and screened as a mini-series in Australia in Trivia About The Nargun and th Men are tearing up the lovely forest and the Nargun will not put up with this. Enjoy a night in with these popular movies available to stream now with Prime Video.

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Charlie 5 episodes, Rodney Bell Apr 21, Peter Wood rated it really liked it. She's a great example for new writers to learn th to show in their writing and not tell the reader.

Audible Download Audio Books. I loved revisiting this book from my childhood. Apr 02, Valerie added it. Wrightson employs a language and This is a wonderful book about a young boy named Simon Brent who, having been orphaned, is taken to live with relatives in a remote area of Australia called Wongadilla.

Patricia Wrightson's story was made into a mini-series for television in — by the Australian Broadcasting Corporationthe screenplay adapted by Margaret Kelly. The Australian Women's Weekly.

Simon Brent 5 episodes, Dec 20, Libby rated it it was amazing Shelves: On his quest he discovers a variety of ancient Dreamtime creatures including the ominous stone Nargun.

Books by Patricia Wrightson. Every page narfun treats, but here are two in particular that caught me: As the Nargun starts to threaten the farm Simon finds out his aunt and uncle also know and respect the creatures and asks them for help to get rid of the Nargun.

Good for pre-teens to young teens. Folklore and adventure I would reccomend this book to anyone.

By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. In a remote valley on the property he discovers a variety of ancient Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime creatures. Then he discovers the Nargun, which the readers were introduced to at the very beginning of the book - a creature that had lain in its nargyn den 'while eagles learnt to fly and gum-trees to blossom; while stars exploded and planets wheeled and the earth settled.

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