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The Children's Writer by Gary Crew
Category: Fiction
Charlie Bloome wants to be a writer. He is studying literature and living with his partner 'Lootie', who is less than supportive of Charlie's dreams. Into their lives comes the acclaimed children's writer Sebastian Chanteleer. As he makes his presence felt in the couple's lives, Charlie struggles to com ...Show more
The Lantern by Gary Crew
Category: 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
Category: Children's 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
Category: 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 Serpent's Tale by Gary Crew Illustrated by Matt Ottley
Category: Picture Books
A powerful picture book for older readers about humanity's never-ending struggle between love and hate, heroism and cowardice. At the most literal level of the story, a boy demands that his mother buy an amulet at a fair in the town square. The artiface looks like a snake chasing or devouring its own t ...Show more
The Story of Eva Carmichael: The Wreck of the Loch Ard by Gary Crew; Paul O'Sullivan (Illustrator)
Category: 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
Category: 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)
Category: Picture Books
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The Watertower by Gary Crew
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
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
The Watertower by Gary Crew
Category: 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.