After living on an Outback Australian research station with her parents for five years, Sandra was adjusting to life back in Holland. She would be starting high school and had to get used to freezing cold, snowy winters, and no more horseriding, swimming and daily outdoor adventures like she had in Australia.
At first, she thought she would be facing it without her beloved companion, Blue, the Australian cattle dog who had become her soul mate in the Outback. Soon enough, everyone realised that Sandra and Blue simply couldn't live without each other. And Blue joined his mistress for a brand-new life in Europe.
Now that he was a city dog, Blue quickly learnt some handy new skills, like shopping for groceries for the family and doing household chores. But in the face of sudden tragedy, his survival skills from the Outback days kick in, and Blue embarks on a long and lonely adventure to reunite with his beloved Sandra.
Will he make it back to her alive?
George Man is a Dutch-Australian author who has published four books in the Blue series, including Blue, Sandra and Blue, The Return of a Champion and The Triumphant Three. George originally set out to write an autobiography, but soon realised that he simply couldn't face the task: having dealt with both triumph and tragedy throughout his colourful life. One night, Blue brought himself to life in George's imagination, and the rest is history! While the Blue series is made for children, it is loved and appreciated by the young and old and is a treasure to animal lovers of all ages.
George Man was born in Indonesia and spent time as a young child in a Japanese concentration camp during World War II. His family later moved to Holland, where he spent his formative years and studied tropical and subtropical agriculture at college.