This audiobook is by Nancy Cato, and the story is about a teenaged girl who is sent to live with her aunt and uncle in Australia and her name, is Philadelphia Gordon.

Though she likes being called Delphi, her aunt also found out from Delphi’s father that before Delphi got to Australia, she was marooned somewhere with a man named Tom.

As her aunt questions her about it and Tom appears later in the story, as he brought a steamboat, that he had decided to rename, Philadelphia.

This is because Philadelphia had given him fifty pounds so that Tom could finish paying off the boat he had brought.

I remember watching All the Rivers Run on T.V. when I was a kid.

All The Rivers Run: A River Not Yet Tamed

Time, Flow Softly

Still Glides the Stream

Towards the Final Shore

Green Grows the Vine

The Sea Ants and Other Stories

North-West by South

Brown Sugar

Queen Tucanini (Vivienne Rae Ellis)

Nin and the Scribblies

Forefathers

The Lady Lost in Time

A Distant Island

The Heart of the Continent

Marigold

This story is by Colin Thiele and has been made into a couple of movies and is available as an audiobook which is narrated by Roger, Cardwell.

The locals in this story say that Storm Boy’s Dad moved to ninety-mile beach with his son, when his boy’s Mum had died, and some, people were horrified. As they thought that living on a beach wasn’t good for a child, but Storm Boy and his Dad, were happy.

They also got their names from the locals and their nearest neighbour was their friend called Fingerbone who lived in a place, that’s called a humpy.

One day, Fingerbone showed Storm Boy three orphaned pelican chicks and Storm Boy decided that he would look after them. Storm Boy also gave them names too, but Mr Percival was his favourite,

Though, when the three pelicans were old enough to be looking after themselves, Storm Boy’s Dad told him that they will have to go: and although he did what he was told and let them go Mr Percival was the only one that had returned.