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Beneath the Surface by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage Fiction
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.
Damon by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
On holiday with his parents, fifteen-year-old Damon is bored. His parents drag him to an art gallery, but after cruising around for a while, he returns to his hotel room to play his gameboy. Bored by the repetitive nature of the games, he falls asleep. But it is then that the artwork Damon has tried so ...Show more
Edward Britton by Gary Crew
$9.99 AUD
$17.99 (44% off)
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Lothian YA Fiction Ser.
A boy convict, Edward Britton, 17, is the main character. He is good-looking, literate and well educated compared to the other boys, and has been a Shakespearian child actor in London. He was transported for stealing from the acting troupe s kitty. He attracts the attention of the daughter of the brutal ...Show more
Leaving the Lyrebird Forest by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage 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: Children's Non Fiction | 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
$18.99 AUD
Category: Paperback Fiction
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
Tagged by Gary Crew
$17.95 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
Jimmy loves to read war comic. Early one Sunday morning as he walks his dog, he discovers a bearded and scruffy man dozing in a disused factory. Why is this man alone and rambling, haunting the dark places of the city?
The Boy Who Grew Into a Tree by Gary Crew
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
A heartbreaking fable about nature and our relationship with it, and about the inevitable cycle of life. "And then, as if on cue, the baby shaped its mouth into a perfect circle, drew breath into its cheeks and, curling its tiny tongue upon its bottom lip, breathed the long soft sound of wind in the tr ...Show more
The Lantern by Gary Crew
$28.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
When Aiden's father goes missing in a storm at sea, the boy's mother tells him to light a lantern and put it in his window. Aiden thinks this is to guide his missing father home, but could he be mistaken?
The Lost Diamonds of Killiecrankie by Gary Crew
$18.99 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage 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 Rainbow by Gary Crew & Gregory Rogers
$28.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
Gary Crew and Gregory Rogers come together for the first time since the highly acclaimed Lucy's Bay to create this poetic picture book. For Audrey, the journey 'down the creek' in her tiny boat is one that marks not only the myriad changes to the physical environment she passes, but a journey within ...Show more
The Viewer (PB) by Gary Crew, illustrated Shaun Tan
$17.99 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