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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
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 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
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.
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
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