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Beneath the Surface by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture 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
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
This is the true story of David and his father, who came to Stephens Island - a remote and pristine island off Cook Strait between the North and South Islands of New Zealand in 1894. They brought their pregnant cat with them. The tiny Stephens Island wrens, being flightless, had no natural defences agai ...Show more
Finding Home by Gary Crew
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children's Picture 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
In the Secret Place by Gary Crew
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's
Gary Crew is one of Australia's most awarded authors for youth, having won, been shortlisted, or been nominated for over fifty Australian and international literary awards. He has won the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award four times; twice for his novels, twice for his illustra ...Show more
Leaving the Lyrebird Forest by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children 10 plus
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: Children's Picture 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
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
$24.95 AUD
Category: Audio Books
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.
Strange Objects by Gary Crew
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's
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 Lost Diamonds of Killiecrankie by Gary Crew
$18.98 AUD
Category: Children's
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 Story of Eva Carmichael: The Wreck of the Loch Ard by Gary Crew; Paul O'Sullivan (Illustrator)
$19.98 AUD
Category: Children's 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
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