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Leaving the Lyrebird Forest by Gary Crew
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
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
The Architecture of Song by Gary Crew
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'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 Boy Who Grew Into a Tree by Gary Crew
$19.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A heartbreaking fable about nature and our relationship with it, and about the inevitable cycle of life. "And then, as if on cue, the baby shaped its mouth into a perfect circle, drew breath into its cheeks and, curling its tiny tongue upon its bottom lip, breathed the long soft sound of wind in the tr ...Show more
The Children's Writer by Gary Crew
$27.99 AUD
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 Viewer (PB) by Gary Crew, illustrated Shaun Tan
$18.00 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
$17.00 AUD
Category: Graphic Novel
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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