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Beneath the Surface by Gary Crew
16.99 AUD
Category: Australian 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.
Cat on the Island by Gary Crew
14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
This is the true story of David and his father, who came to Stephens Island - a remote and pristine island off Cook Strait between the North and South Islands of New Zealand in 1894. They brought their pregnant cat with them. The tiny Stephens Island wrens, being flightless, had no natural defences agai ...Show more
Finding Home by Gary Crew
16.95 AUD
Category: Australian 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
Finding Home by Gary Crew
26.95 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
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 we love and val ...Show more
Leaving the Lyrebird Forest by Gary Crew
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
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
16.99 AUD
Category: Australian 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
The Lost Diamonds of Killiecrankie by Gary Crew
18.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
Paperback quarto, very good plus condition, black & white & colour sketches, black & white text-photos. 64 pp. An illustrated children's mystery story, said to be based on true details supplied by a Tasmanian artist.
The Story of Eva Carmichael: The Wreck of the Loch Ard by Gary Crew; Paul O'Sullivan (Illustrator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Australian 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 Visions of Ichabod X by Crew Gary; Gary O"Sullivan (Drawings by)
22.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
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The Watertower by Gary Crew
27.99 AUD
Category: Australian 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: Australian 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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