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Memorial by Gary Crew; Shaun Tan (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
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
Memorial (PB) by Gary Crew
Category: Education | 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
Quest (Sam Silverthorne #1) by Gary Crew
Category: Young Adult
In the spring of 1891, thirteen-year-old Sam silverthorne is left in the care of his heartless Aunt Bertha as his father, Sir Arthur Silverthorne, Ornithologist to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, sets out on an expedition to find the infamous silver bird of paradise. But when Sir Arthur disappears without a ...Show more
Really Scary Stories for Brave Children by Various Authors; Charlotte George (Read by); Edwin Hodgeman (Read by); Victor Kelleher; Andrew Lansdown; Sophie Masson; Ruth Park; Don Barker (Read by); Full Cast Recording Staff (Read by); Christopher Pitman (Read by); Marcella Russo (Read by); Anna Steen (Read by); Heather Steen (Read by); Alison Stewart; Gary Crew
Category: Audio
Lock the windows! Turn off the lights! Be prepared to shiver and shake when you listen to Really Scary Stories for Brave Children. Contains six scary, frightening and blood curdling stories by a selection of great Australian authors.
Stolen Children of Quentaris (Quentaris Chronicles) by Gary Crew
Category: Children's Fiction
Stolen Children of Quentaris is a gripping fantasy novel which tells the story of the Quentaran children stolen by Nordian traders to sell to the despicable Trollantan rat people. The novel follows the children
Strange Objects by Gary Crew
Category: Children's 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
Category: 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 Architecture of Song by Gary Crew
Category: Fiction
'I lived many lives beneath that piano ...I heard ten thousand stories in that space. There I was privileged to observe, to gather -- and not only gather, to concentrate within myself -- so much that is usually denied a child of my age. As a result, I have, you might say, grown.' So says Augustus Trump ...Show more
The Blue Feather by Gary Crew; Michael O'Hara
Category: Young Adult
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 Boy Who Grew Into a Tree by Gary Crew
Category: 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