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Automaton by Gary Crew
$28.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
Following his invention of the light bulb and recorded sound, Thomas Edison turned his genius to the invention of a doll which could speak and walk. When assembled the doll weighed almost 10 kilos and Edison buried this failure in the grounds of his factory. Here is a modern parable warning about the ag ...Show more
Beneath the Surface by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
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.
Cat on the Island by Gary Crew
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
This is the true story of David and his father, who came to Stephens Island - a remote and pristine island near Cook Strait between the North and South Islands of New Zealand in 1894. There they built a lighthouse to protect ships entering the strait. Oblivious of the potential damage to the environment ...Show more
Damon by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story 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
Damon by Gary Crew
$28.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story 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
Finding Home by Gary Crew
$17.00 AUD
Category: New Books
Age range 9+ Rich and beautiful, Gary Crew’s text is redolent with the sounds and colours of the Australian bush. This picture book for older children is an ode and an obituary to the indigenous landscape, much of which was destroyed by white colonists. Ignorance and selfishness can destroy the things w ...Show more
I Said Nothing by Gary Crew
$28.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
Harry lives with his family on a sheep station west of Maryborough, Qld. Harry has seen two Paradise Parrots nesting in a termite mound and is concerned about trappers he knows to be in the area. With the visit of a naturalist, Harry learns that it is not only the actions of the trappers that endanger t ...Show more
I Saw Nothing: The Extinction of the Thylacine by Gary Crew
$17.00 AUD
Category: Dinosaurs
Rosie never liked Elias Churchill, and she liked him even less when he trapped the last tiger-wolf ever to be seen. Churchill didn t kill the tiger-wolf for its bounty he bundled it into a cage, scratched and bloody, and sent it by train to some unknown place. It was moaning and sad. It liked its freedo ...Show more
In the Beech Forest by Gary Crew
$17.00 AUD
Category: New Books
Age range 10+ In the Beech Forest is a story from long ago, from now and from the future. An ordinary boy takes a path leading him from the safety of his home into a dark forest. His head is full of the fearful images of his computer games that so excite yet terrify him; battles between heroes and dread ...Show more
Memorial (PB) by Gary Crew
$17.00 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books | 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
Memorial (PB) by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books | Reading Level: From 3 To 99
A Moreton Bay Fig tree, planted as a memorial to Australian soldiers killed in World War I, looks set to be cut down by the local council. A young boy tells the moving story of the tree, as related by his great grandfather, grandfather and father, each of whom has participated in wars over the years. ...Show more
Strange Objects by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
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