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Quetta

OUT OF PRINT

Quetta

By Gary Crew About · Illustrated by Bruce Whatley About

This story for older children is based on an actual event that occurred off Thursday Island in 1890. When the passenger liner Quetta sank over 150 men, women and children lost their lives. Among the survivors was an unidentified baby girl. A magnificently illustrated story of tragedy and survival.

AuthorGary Crew About
IllustratorBruce Whatley About
Type Of BookAustralian Picture Book
FormatHardback
ISBN9780734402400
Published31/01/2002
Lists And AwardsPremier's Reading Challenge 6-9 (SA)
Price Per CopyRRP $26.95
1–9 copies$24.25
10–19 copies$22.90
20+ copies$21.56
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Gary Crew

Gary Crew has been awarded the Children’s Book Council of Australia, Book of the Year Award four times; twice for Older Readers (Strange Objects in 1991 and Angel’s Gate in 1993), and twice for Picture Books (First Light in 1993 and The Water Tower in 1996). He has also been short-listed twice for the Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Fiction Award for Youth in the USA, and has been awarded the American Children’s Book of Distinction. Gary is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Children’s and Adult Literature at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.

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Bruce Whatley

Bruce Whatley is a well-known Australian children’s illustrator. He is a superb draftsman, best known for Diary of a Wombat, Looking for Crabs, Little White Dogs Can’t Jump and now The Lantern.

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