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Beneath the Surface by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
Searching for an explanation for the nightmares that haunt him, Dr Spiro Trotter returns to the Preston watertower. But what will he find beneath the surface of those still, dark waters? The long-awaited sequel to The Watertower. First published 2004.
Finding Home by Gary Crew
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
Age range 9+ Rich and beautiful, Gary Crew’s text is redolent with the sounds and colours of the Australian bush. This picture book for older children is an ode and an obituary to the indigenous landscape, much of which was destroyed by white colonists. Ignorance and selfishness can destroy the things w ...Show more
In the Beech Forest by Gary Crew
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
Age range 10+ In the Beech Forest is a story from long ago, from now and from the future. An ordinary boy takes a path leading him from the safety of his home into a dark forest. His head is full of the fearful images of his computer games that so excite yet terrify him; battles between heroes and dread ...Show more
Leaving the Lyrebird Forest by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Novel
A beautiful story about friendship, change and our place in nature, from legendary Australian author Gary Crew. 'Are you lonely here?' her mother asked. 'Never,' Alice said. 'Not while I am friends with the lyrebird.' Alice has spent her life living on the outskirts of a small town, in a house nestled i ...Show more
Memorial (PB) by Gary Crew
$16.98 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books | Series: Lothian Australian Favou Ser.
In 2014 the world will mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. Internationally acclaimed author, Gary Crew, and multi-award-winning illustrator Shaun Tan have created a powerful picture book to help us all remember. When the soldiers return in 1918, a memorial tree is planted ...Show more
Strange Objects by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Novel
CBC Book of the Year: Older Readers. Premiers Literary Award Winner. NSM State Literary Awards Children's Book Award Winner. On 4 June 1629 the Dutch vessel Batavia struck uncharted rocks off the Western Australian coast. By the time help arrived over 120 men, women and children had met their deaths - n ...Show more
The Blue Feather by Gary Crew; Michael O'Hara
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Novel
Recurring rumours of attacks by a giant raptor lead Greg Muir to seek the truth behind the bird's existence. Is it big enough to bring down a light plane? Can it carry away human beings in its talons? Is it responsible for the mutilation of a hang-glider? A quest for a creature as fearful as it is elus ...Show more
The Story of Eva Carmichael: The Wreck of the Loch Ard by Gary Crew; Paul O'Sullivan (Illustrator)
$19.98 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
When eighteen year old Eva Carmichael boarded the Loch Ard, she did so amidst rumours that the ships of the LochLine were cursed. And so it came to pass. In 1878, the magnificent clipper was wrecked off the treacherous coast ofVictoria, Australia.Though the sole female survivor, and despite having lost ...Show more
The Viewer (PB) by Gary Crew, illustrated Shaun Tan
$17.98 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
Young Tristan, a curious boy who rescues all sorts of objects from the rubbish dump, finds an old Viewmaster in its elaborate box, complete with a set of disks. He finds that these represent the ages of humankind, seen as a cyclical structure in which patterns of growth and decay are repeated. Tristan b ...Show more
The Visions of Ichabod X by Crew Gary; Gary O"Sullivan (Drawings by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art & Fashion
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The Watertower by Gary Crew
$17.95 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
Nobody in Preston could remember when the watertower was built, or who had built it, but there it stood on Shooter's Hill -- its iron legs rusted, its egg-shaped tank warped and leaking -- casting a long dark shadow across the valley, across Preston itself.
The Watertower by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
Nobody in Preston could remember when the watertower was built, or who had built it, but there it stood . . . casting a long, dark shadow across the valley, across Preston itself.The Children's Book Council of Australia 1995 Picture Book of the Year'. . . a genuinely eerie picture book.' Kirkus Reviews ...Show more
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