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The Watertower

Gary Crew

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A new release of an Australian classic, this 1995 CBCA award-winning graphic picture book by Gary Crew and Steven Woolman is an atmospheric and thought-provoking exploration of rural life and the impact of technology.

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.

A 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Jury Recommends Title
The Children's Book Council of Australia 1995 Picture Book of the Year

'. . . a genuinely eerie picture book.' Kirkus Reviews

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Gary Crew

GARY CREW is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. He has won the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year four times and his readers have come to expect shadowy, surprising, incredible stories that must be read, and read again.
STEVEN WOOLMAN (1969-2004) completed a degree in Design and Illustration at the University of South Australia in 1990 and was always fascinated by bizarre fantasy. For the illustrations in The Watertower, his fifth published book, he used a combination of acrylic paint and chalk and pencil on black paper.

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