{{Use Australian English|date=August 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{short description|1967 children's novel by Ivan Southall}} {{Infobox book | | name = To the Wild Sky | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:ToTheWildSkyNovel.jpg | caption = First edition | author = [[Ivan Southall]] | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = [[English language|English]] | series = | genre = Children's fiction | publisher = [[Angus and Robertson]] | release_date = 1967 | media_type = Print | pages = 184 pp | isbn = | preceded_by = The Foxhole | followed_by = Sly Old Wardrobe }}
'''''To the Wild Sky''''' (1967) is a novel for children by Australian author [[Ivan Southall]], illustrated by Jennifer Tuckwell. It won the [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers]] in 1968.<ref name=austlit>[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C17344 Austlit - ''To the Wild Sky'' by Ivan Southall]</ref>
The novel is a prequel to ''A City Out of Sight'' by Ivan Southall, published in 1984.<ref name=austlit />
==Plot outline== Six children, travelling to visit an outback station by plane, are thrown into crisis when their pilot suddenly dies mid-flight. One of the children successfully lands the plane and the children then find themselves having to survive.
==Critical reception== In her review of the novel in ''The Canberra Times'' Daphne Fisher stated: "This is a book that should prove to be generally popular. Mr Southall writes in accordance with Maugham's dictum that a story should have a beginning, a middle and an end; but more than this, he is to be commended for remembering that children, as well as adults, have sufficient intelligence to both comprehend and appreciate an idea which does not depend merely on the happenings in a fictional narrative."<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106967061 "Character Development" by Daphne Fisher, ''The Canberra Times'', 15 July 1967, p10]</ref>
== Notes == The novel was republished in 2014 by [[Text Publishing]] as part of their "Text Classics" series of Australian novels.<ref>[https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/to-the-wild-sky Text Publishing - ''To the Wild Sky'' by Ivan Southall]</ref>
==See also== * [[1967 in Australian literature]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Children's Book of the Year Award for Older Readers}}
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