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Damon by Gary Crew
16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
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
Leaving the Lyrebird Forest by Gary Crew
16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
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: Childrens | 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: Young Adult
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 Architecture of Song by Gary Crew
27.99 AUD
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 Cuckoo by Gary Crew
29.95 AUD
Category: Childrens
Martin is the runt of his family. Without a mother to protect him, his overbearing father and brothers reject him. Aided by the self-sacrifice of loving friends, Martin finds the courage to fight for personal fulfilment. Praise for In The Beech Forest by Gary Crew and Den Scheer: 'An ideal read for chil ...Show more
The Viewer (PB) by Gary Crew, illustrated Shaun Tan
17.99 AUD
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 Watertower by Gary Crew
16.99 AUD
Category: 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
The Watertower by Gary Crew
22.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: 7-14
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.
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