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6 unusual facts about The Silver Brumby


The Silver Brumby

Wombat (voiced by Michael Carman) - A grumpy, griping wombat who goes on a path without looking ahead and blaming both humans and animals for making his progress difficult.

Mopoke (voiced by Michael Carman) - A wise owl who gives advice to Thowra and his friends but talks in poetic rhyming couplets.

Dingo (voiced by Marg Downey) - A Dingo who is mother to two pups - Bindi and Warri.

Eee and Mu (voiced by Richard Aspel and Marg Downey) - A couple of loudmouth emus who gossip and mostly talk to each other.

Currawong (voiced by Michael Carman) - A chattering and observant bird, and Brolga's official spy.

The Silver Brumby is an Australian animated children's television series written by Jon Stephens and Judy Malmgren based on Elyne Mitchell's Silver Brumby books.



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Elyne Mitchell

According to an interview with Tom Wright, the "Silver Brumby" series arose from Mrs Mitchell's difficulties in finding suitable reading material for her daughter Indi, then 10 and being raised in some isolation on the Mitchell family property Towong Hill, a remote cattle station in the Snowy Mountains.

Set in the Snowy Mountains area of the Australian Alps around Mount Kosciuszko in southern New South Wales and northern Victoria, the Snowy Brumby books recount the life of the pale palomino brumby stallion Thowra from his birth in The Silver Brumby (first published 1958) to Silver Brumby Whirlwind.