Series:Spinouts

These are reading programmes. There seems to be 3 sets.

- 1st set (possibly "Spinouts Silver") 1999 - Spinouts Bronze 2000 - Spinouts Sapphire 2002

Spinouts - 1st set
(There's something odd with the 1st set wiki page, so here is the info on the first set, pending obtaining copies/adding from the NLA data.)

This set might also be referred to as Spinouts Silver. I understand there are 15 titles, each with 3 stories, all 1999. They are a reading programme.

Titles from National Library of Australia catalogue:

Techno terror / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain. Heroic feats / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain. Dragon tales / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain Spooky tales / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain. Tales from beyond / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain Last gasps / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain Alien invasions / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain Gadgets and gizmos / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain Lost in space / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain. Altered states / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain. Tales from the deep / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain Ghosts and ghoulies / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain Freaks of nature / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain. Time zones / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain. It came from the lab / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain.

Terrors of nature / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain seems to be a variant title of _Freaks of nature_.

[Gadgets & Gizmos is only one entered in ISFDB so far.]

--j_clark 22:55, 12 Nov 2007 (CST)

Spinouts - Bronze
(Wiki page seems totally blank for this sub-series, so here is some data from the NLA catalogue pending more info/work.)

Title: Spinouts / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain. Publisher: South Melbourne : Pearson Education, 2000.

Description: 15 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.

ISBN: 0733914527 : 	0733914357 (set) : 0733914667 : 	0733914551 : 	0733914535 : 	0733914578 : 	0733914543 : 	0733914640 : 	0733914632 : 	073391456X : 0733914586 : 	0733914659 : 	0733914608 : 	0733914616 : 	0733914624 : 	0733914594 :

Series: Spinouts bronze

Notes: Series editors : Meredith Costain and Paul Collins ; illustrator Coral Tulloch.

Contents: Other times -- Alien encounters --Winners are grinners -- On the edge -- Creepy crawlies -- Distant shores -- Eerie tales -- School daze -- Noises in the dark -- Beyond the grave -- Warps and wormholes -- The bold and the brave -- Spacebound -- Into the future -- Space mates. Primary school students.

There is also ...

Title: Spinouts bronze teacher’s ideas book / Meredith Costain and Paul Collins.

Publisher: South Melbourne, Vic. : Longman, 2000.

Description: 88 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

ISBN: 0733915078 :

Series: Spinouts bronze

Summary: Teachers book to support series already published.

Spinouts - Sapphire
As there isn't anything in ISFDB yet about Sapphire, here are some extracts from the National Library of Aust. catalogue re the sapphire set:

Title: Spinouts / edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain. Publisher: South Melbourne : Pearson Education, 2002.

Description: 15 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.

ISBN: 0733932304 : 	0733932320 : 	0733932339 : 	0733932436 : 	0733932347 : 	0733932355 : 	0733932363 : 	0733932371 : 	073393238X : 0733932290 : 	0733932444 : 	0733932398 : 	0733932401 : 	073393241X : 0733932428 : 	0733932312 (set)

Series: Spinouts sapphire

Contents: Tales from the dark side -- Fright night -- Past haunts -- Time warps -- Shadowlands -- Tricks and traps -- Spellbinders -- Tales from the Nile -- Quests and tests -- Greening the Earth -- They’re here! -- Reel trouble -- Screen wars -- The final frontier -- The red planet.

Notes: Primary school students. Subjects: Children’s stories, Australian. Items/Issues Held: pbk:Tales from the dark side pbk:Fright night pbk:Tricks and traps pbk:Spellbinders pbk:Tales from the Nile pbk:Quests and tests pbk:Past haunts pbk:Time warps pbk:Shadowlands pbk:Greening the Earth pbk:They’re here! pbk:Reel trouble pbk:Screen wars pbk:The final frontier pbk:The red planet

There is also:

Title: Spinouts sapphire teacher’s ideas book / Meredith Costain and Paul Collins. Publisher: South Melbourne : Longman, 2002.

Description: 87 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

ISBN: 0733935028 :

Series: Spinouts sapphire

Summary: Teachers book to accompany the Spinouts sapphire series.

Notes: Includes index.

--j_clark 23:03, 12 Nov 2007 (CST)