<div><p><B>Winner of the New York Times Book Review Children's Book of the Year, 1966.</B></p><p><B>Commended title, American Library Association, 1966.</B></p><p>"The author has the power to get inside his characters."?<I>The New York Times</I></p><p>It's hot and dry on Ash Road, where three boys taste their first independence, camping without adults. When they accidentally light a bushfire, none could guess how far it would go. They are forced to face the consequences with only each other to depend on.</p><p><B>Ivan Southall</B> was Australia's first recipient of the Carnergie Medal. An icon of children's literature, he wrote over sixty books. He died in 2008.</p></DIV>