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Cat on the Island by Gary Crew
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction
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
Damon by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
$19.99 (15% off)
Category: Children's Picture 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
$34.99 (17% off)
Category: Children's Hardback
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
$26.95 AUD
$32.99 (18% off)
Category: Children's Hardback
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 we love and val ...Show more
Leaving the Lyrebird Forest by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Readers
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 by Gary Crew; Shaun Tan (Illustrator)
$24.95 AUD
$34.95 (28% off)
Category: Children's Hardback
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: 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
The Architecture of Song by Gary Crew
$27.99 AUD
$34.99 (20% off)
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 Boy Who Grew Into a Tree by Gary Crew
$19.99 AUD
$26.00 (23% off)
Category: Children's Hardback
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
$29.99 (6% off)
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