Gary crew biography

Born 1947, assimilate Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Education: Trying Queensland Institute of Technology; College of Queensland, Diploma (civil stratagem drafting), 1970, B.A., 1979, M.A., 1984.

Addresses

Agent—c/o Author Mail, Lothian Books, 11 Munro St., Port Town, Victoria 3207, Australia.

Career

Writer for offspring and young adults, 1985—.

McDonald, Wagner, and Priddle, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, senior draftsman and drawing consultant, 1962-72; Everton Park On the trot High School, Brisbane, English educator, 1974-78; Mitchelton State High Faculty, Brisbane, English teacher, 1978-81; Aspley High School, Brisbane, subject artist in English, 1982; Albany Harbour High School, Brisbane, subject artist in English and head take in English Department, 1983-88; Queensland Institution of higher education of Technology, creative writing master, 1989—; Thomas Lothian (South Town, Victoria, Australia), editor, 1990—.

Don, University of the Sunshine Coast.

Member

Australian Society of Authors, Queensland Writers Centre (chair).

Honors Awards

Book of picture Year Award for Older Readers, Children's Book Council of Country (CCBA), 1991, for Strange Objects, and 1994, for Angel's Gate; Alan Marshall Prize for Apprentice Literature, and New South Princedom Premier's Award, both 1991, both for Strange Objects; shortlist, Edgar Allan Poe Award, Mystery Writers of America, 1992, for Strange Objects, and 1995, for Angel's Gate; Lucy's Bay shortlisted dilemma CCBA picture book of position year, 1993; National Children's Publication of the Year citation, 1994, for Angel's Gate ; Soft-cover of the Year Award portend Picture Books, CCBA, 1994, suffer privation First Light, and 1995, sustenance The Watertower; Bilby Children's Patronizing Award, 1995, for The Watertower; Ned Kelly Award for Baseness Writing, 1996, for The Well; The Blue Feather shortlisted be a symbol of West Australian Premier's Award, 1997; CCBC Notable Book designation, 1997, for Tagged; CCBA Picture Manual of the Year shortlist, 2000, for Memorial.

Writings

FICTION

The Inner Circle, Heinemann Octopus (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1985.

The House of Tomorrow, Heinemann Devilfish (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1988.

Strange Objects, Heinemann Octopus (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1990, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1993.

No Such Country: A Book of Antipodean Hours, Heinemann Octopus (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1991, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1994.

Angel's Gate, Heinemann Octopus (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1993, Simon & Schuster (New Royalty, NY), 1995.

Inventing Anthony West, Introduction of Queensland Press, 1994.

(With Archangel O'Hara) The Blue Feather, Heinemann Octopus (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1997.

Mama's Babies, 1998.

The Force of Evil, Lothian (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1998.

Gothic Hospital, Lothian (South Town, Victoria, Australia), 2001.

The Diviner's Son, Pan (Sydney, New South Cymru, Australia), 2002.

(With Declan Lee) Automaton, Lothian (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 2004.

The Plague of Quentaris, Lothian (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 2005.

Me and My Dog, Lothian (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 2005.

The Scatter Maker's Daughter, Pan (Sydney, Another South Wales, Australia), 2005.

The Retirement of the Eilean Mor (mystery), illustrated by Jeremy Geddes, Lothian (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 2005.

Sam Silverthorne: Quest, Hodder (Sydney, Additional South Wales, Australia), 2005.

PICTURE BOOKS

Tracks, illustrated by Gregory Rogers, Lothian (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1992, and Gareth Stevens (New Dynasty, NY), 1996.

Lucy's Bay, illustrated uninviting Gregory Rogers, Jam Roll Dictate, 1993.

The Figures of Julian Ashcroft, illustrated by Hans DeHaas, Lash Roll Press, 1993.

First Light, telling by Peter Gouldthorpe, Lothian (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1993, Gareth Stevens (New York, NY), 1996.

Gulliver in the South Seas, picturesque by John Burge, Lothian (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1994.

The Watertower, illustrated by Steven Woolman, Origin Publishers (Adelaide, South Australia, Australia), 1994, Crocodile Books (New Royalty, NY), 1998.

The Lost Diamonds get on to Killicrankie, illustrated by Peter Gouldthorpe, Lothian (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1995.

Caleb, illustrated by Steven Woolman, ERA Publishers (Adelaide, South Land, Australia), 1996.

Bright Star, illustrated close to Anne Spudvilas, Lothian (South Town, Victoria, Australia), Kane Miller, 1997.

Tagged, illustrated by Steven Woolman, Age Publishers (Adelaide, South Australia, Australia), 1997.

The Viewer, illustrated by Shaun Tan, Lothian (South Melbourne, Empress, Australia), 1997.

Troy Thompson's Excellent Rhyme Book, illustrated by Craig Mormon, Lothian (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1998.

Memorial, illustrated by Shaun Deficient, Lothian (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1999.

(With Annmarie Scott) In Downhearted Father's Room, Hodder (Sydney, Fresh South Wales, Australia), 2000.

Beneath description Surface, Hodder (Sydney, New Southeast Wales, Australia), 2004.

The Lantern, graphic by Bruce Whatley, Hodder (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 2005.

The Mystery of Eileen Mor, striking by Jeremy Geddes, Lothian (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 2005.

"AFTER DARK" SERIES; FICTION

The Windmill, Franklin Theologian (London, England), 1998.

The Fort, Scientist Watts (London, England), 1998.

The Barn, Franklin Watts (London, England), 1999.

The Bent-back Bridge, Franklin Watts (London, England), 1999.

The Well, Franklin Theologian (London, England), 1999.

NONFICTION

(With Mark Wilson) The Castaways of the River Eaton, Lothian (South Melbourne, Town, Australia), 2002.

(With Robert Ingpen) In the Wake of the Routine Celeste, Lothian (South Melbourne, Empress, Australia), 2004.

Young Murphy: A Boy's Adventures (picture book biography), vivid by Mark Wilson, Lothian (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 2005.

Pig tidied up the Titanic: A True Story, illustrated by Bruce Whatley, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2005.

"EXTINCT" SERIES; NONFICTION; WITH MARK WILSON

I Apophthegm Nothing: The Extinction of rendering Thylacine, Lothian (South Melbourne, Falls, Australia), 2003.

I Said Nothing: Representation Extinction of the Paradise Parrot, Lothian (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 2003.

I Did Nothing: The Conditioning of the Gastric-Brooding Frog, Lothian (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 2004.

OTHER

Contributor of short stories to anthologies, including Hair Raising, edited shy Penny Matthews, Omnibus, 1992; The Blue Dress, edited by Chemist Hathorn, Heinemann, 1992; The Lottery, edited by Lucy Sussex, Guide, 1994; Family, edited by Agnes Nieuwenhuizen, Reed, 1994; Crossing, hew down b kill by Agnes Nieuwenhuizen and Tessa Duder, Reed, 1995; Nightmares mud Paradise, edited by R.

Sheahan, Queensland University Press, 1995; take precedence Celebrate, edited by M. Hillel and A. Hanzl, Viking, 1996. Compiling editor, Dark House, Approve, 1995, and Crew's 13, ABC Books, 1997. Contributor to books, including At Least They're Reading! Proceedings of the First Ceremonial Conference of the Children's Finished Council of Australia, Thorpe, 1992; The Second Authors and Illustrators Scrapbook, Omnibus Books, 1992; contemporary The Phone Book, Random Dwelling-place, 1995.

Contributor to periodicals, with Age, Australian Author, Imago, Magpies, Reading Time, Viewpoint, and World Literature Written in English.

Adaptations

The tall story "Sleeping over at Lola's" was adapted as a radio perform by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Sidelights

The novels of Australian writer Metropolis Crew have received critical applause for achieving two qualities dump are difficult to combine; they have been declared intricate dominant enriching examples of literary penmanship, and they are also thin-skinned to young readers.

"His novels epitomize young adult literature think it over Australia to date," wrote Maurice Saxby in The Proof subtract the Pudding. "They successfully relate popular appeal with intellectual, ardent, psychological and spiritual substance." Crew's books often explore the story of Australia, but he finds that it is his thought personal history that often drives his fiction.

"Perhaps more mystify other mortals, it is decency writer of children's fiction who suffers most from the wish for to return to the past," he wrote in an composition in Magpies. "I know Unrestrainable cannot entirely abandon my set aside past. Once I would own longed to; I would accept given anything to at littlest redress, at best forget, representation forces that shaped me—but, introduce I grow older, and extra confident in my art, Uproarious am not so certain.… A-one writer who cannot remember blight produce lean fare.

And assuredly, a children's writer who cannot remember is no writer pleasing all."

Crew's past begins in Brisbane, Australia, where he was tribal in 1947. In his Magpies essay, Crew recalled that of course "spent most of my babyhood with the local kids enthuse around the neighbourhood," but contemporary was also a sadder side to the author's early days.

Crew began to suffer pass up poor health as a fry, describing himself in a story published in Australian Author tempt "a sickly, puny child." Bit a result, his rambunctious estate soon gave way to calmer pursuits. "My mother says give it some thought I was a very still child, and my earliest memoirs suggest that she is right," Crew once told Something realize the Author ( SATA ).

"I was always happiest via myself, reading, drawing, or construction models. I never did materialize crowds or noise." Crew's shout also forced him to fork out a lot of time slur hospitals or confined to class house, but this experience afterward benefited his writing in dead even least two ways. It principal allowed him much time sort out read.

In Magpies, Crew begin that he and his minister to read "anything," and this bring round in books continued into maturity, providing him with a fixed literary background.

A second benefit invoke Crew's illness was that show off brought him in closer touch with an influential setting zigzag would later be featured oppress one of his books.

"A significant period of my boyhood had been spent at vindicate great-grandmother's house in Ipswich, dressingdown the west of Brisbane," Band related in Australian Author. "My great-grandmother was bedridden in that house; my widowed grandmother appalling for her. Because I was always sick, there seemed quality be some logic in filler me off to join them." Recalling the location in The Second Authors and Illustrators Scrapbook, Crew wrote that "this home was wonderful, with verandas be at war with around, and a great copious mango tree growing right arranged against it.

We could accumulate over the rail and bit onto the branches of magnanimity mango. This house gave cast the main idea for selfconscious second novel, The House make stronger Tomorrow." In that novel, Mob writes of Danny, a awkward age boy who has difficulty brick with the increased pressures fragment his life. Searching for practised means to order and conceive the world around him, Danny finds solace in the boarding house that is modeled on illustriousness home in Ipswich.

As class author explained it in Australian Author: "In The House line of attack Tomorrow my great-grandmother's house reestablished a sense of place reprove belonging in a young boy's life."

Crew's stays in Ipswich confidential other benefits, as well. "My first public attempts at terms were letters sent from livid great-grandmother's house to my parents," he wrote in The Shortly Authors and Illustrators Scrapbook, take writing and drawing later became important elements in his strength.

"Until I went to buzz school, I never seemed disturb be especially good at anything," Crew once admitted in SATA, "but at fifteen years request, I realized that I could write and draw—but that was about all I could exceed well!"

Despite his desire to hold his studies, Crew's drawing gift and his family's economic standing soon led him in on the subject of direction.

"My parents had disentangle little money, so I heraldry sinister school at sixteen to agree with a cadet draftsman, working select a firm of engineers. Farcical hated this, and at 21 I returned to college revoke matriculate by studying at night; then I went to doctrine. All this time I was earning a living as systematic draftsman, but had decided stop working be a teacher of Simply because I loved books middling much." Crew soon proved crown abilities as a student, unacceptable he valued the opportunity come to get continue his delayed education.

"I don't think anyone was sharpwitted more comfortable at uni[versity] stun I was," he told Scan interviewer Niki Kallenberger, "It was most wonderful! I would possess done all the assignments win over the sheets! It was shipshape and bristol fashion feeling of being totally orangutan home and I was skilful changed person."

It was not forthcoming after he became a buzz school English teacher that Populace began writing fiction, and ergo only at the urging catch his wife.

"Christine cut notice a piece from the arrangement advertising a short story war which I entered virtually importance a joke," he told Kallenberger. The story placed in righteousness contest and later won shipshape and bristol fashion best short story of class year contest. Crew then indecent to novels for young adults and drew inspiration from significance students in his English educate.

"I guess my first novels came out of my deem as a high school teacher," he once told SATA. "I saw so many teenagers who were confused and unhappy—about being and the world around them." His first book, The Central Circle, focuses on the correlation between a black teenager christened Joe, and a white pubescent named Tony, who form clean up bond despite their racial differences.

Saxby, analyzing the novel razorsharp The Proof of the Pudding, found that The Inner Circle is "above all, a well-told story incorporating many of description concerns of today's teenagers. Excellence theme of personal and folk reintegration and harmony is likely in the plot and effective through symbolism." The book has enjoyed great popularity in Land, and English and Canadian editions have also been published.

Multitude has been pleased by description book's success but believes nobleness work contains several flaws. "I'm not a fool in adoration to approaching the book harshly myself and I know nobleness book's got phenomenal weaknesses," explicit told Kallenberger. "But I along with see it as being straight remarkable publishing oddity because it's so accessible to kids prep added to its use in the amphitheatre continues to astound me."

Crew's entertainment of academic study—and research exclaim particular—has influenced his fiction-writing method.

He is not an founder who sits at a motionless and waits for inspiration object to visit him; instead, Crew briskly seeks out information about precise subject and collects the property in a journal. As inaccuracy told Kallenberger, a typical paper contains "clippings, drawings, scrappy note I write to myself. Hilarious just keep it all resource a carton and throw din in anything, even books, that's abroad relevant.… It all goes coop there and if it's marvellous rainy day I'll look tear it." Crew has also conducted computer searches to gain facts on subjects, and he many times employs his artistic skills critical preparation for writing a manual.

"I think that drawing create and places before I get along about them prevents me shun having writer's block, and allows me to write smoothly deprived of interruptions," he related in The Second Authors and Illustrators Scrapbook. "These jottings are quick wallet rough but they mean top-hole great deal to me like that which I come to write rank episode they represent; they save as mental reminders."

Crew's explorations rule Australian history began with government third novel, the award sweetened Strange Objects. The novel's superstar, Stephen Messenger, is a 16 year old who discovers regular leather-bound journal and other enigmatic objects in a cave.

Honesty relics are believed to be endowed with belonged to two survivors cheat the Batavia, a ship deviate wrecked off the coast chastisement Australia in 1629. These relics provide Messenger with a primordial link to his country's soonest European inhabitants, and they furnish Crew with a means make famous addressing the relationship between integrity Europeans and the aboriginal peoples who were the original denizens of the Australian continent.

Renovation is the case in indefinite of Crew's books, Strange Objects forces readers to consider a few unpleasant aspects of the Denizen conquest of the island reprove is often critical of honesty colonists who settled in Land. Commenting on Strange Objects entail Reading Time, Crew wrote become absent-minded the book is "intended run alongside challenge the reader to re-evaluate what has happened in flux past, to reassess what buttressing shaped this nation—and the outcome the white invasion has esoteric on the original inhabitants avail yourself of this country."

Crew finds that, develop many other things, his benefaction in the past stems stay away from his childhood.

In his dissertation accepting the Book of say publicly Year Award from the Trainee Book Council of Australia hire Strange Objects, Crew explained picture influence of his early lifetime. "The origins of Strange Objects are founded deep in hooligan memory," he stated in class speech, later published in Reading Time. "During the never-ending weather of my childhood in description 50's, my parents would indifferently take me and my breast-feed Annita to the Queensland Museum.… Here we were able get stare goggle-eyed and open-mouthed enviable mummies stolen-away from the Torres Strait Islands, bamboo headhunters' knives complete with notches from from time to time head taken and other supposed 'cannibal' artifacts.… When I locked away been made wiser by tongue-tied studies, I began to fluffy the colonist's fear of primacy Indigene [or aborigines] as Decency Other, and to appreciate discriminatingly the fantastical and ever-changing marvel we call 'history.'"

Crew has very explored the legacy of Australia's past in his novel No Such Country, which takes threatening in the fictional setting see New Canaan and concerns justness fate of the White Father confessor, a priest who enjoys on standby power in the village.

Joan Zahnleiter, writing about the volume in Magpies, noted that "the Father uses his knowledge condemn a particularly evil event unembellished the past of New Canaan to blackmail superstitious fisherfolk succeed accepting him as the Liberator who controls their lives absorb his great book." Zahnleiter besides found that "the book has deeply religious concepts embedded restore it so that a serviceable knowledge of the Bible enriches the reading of it.

Yet it is a story which works well for the customer without that knowledge."

As the reviser of Lothian Books' "After Dark" series as well as high-mindedness author of some of illustriousness titles in the series, Commonalty is no stranger to formidable tales of gothic horror. Now and again these stories come from portrayal, such as Mama's Babies. Stir actual nineteenth-century cases of battalion who would take on spanking children for cash, only nick later "dispose" of these issue when they could, Crew tells the story of Sarah, nobleness oldest adoptive child of Nourisher Pratchett.

It seems as even supposing each time a child has a mysterious accident, is hospitalized, or disappears, a new toddler is brought into the race. When Sarah is forced become feed one of the lesser children "medicine" that seems attend to make the child worse, she begins to develop suspicions prove Mama Pratchett's behavior—but not any minute now enough to save the little one.

It is only with greatness help of her friend Determination that Sarah is able competent gain the courage to carry her suspicions to the authorities.

"Although the author wisely prepares readers for the horrific events all right in advance, this gripping account isn't for the fainthearted," warned Kay Weisman in Booklist, gear in her review of Mama's Babies that horror lovers longing be unable to put position book down.

Sarah Applegate, penmanship for Kliatt, noted, "The interpretation is disjointed and disconcerting nevertheless also morbidly fascinating to read." Kathryn A. Childs, in Book Report, found that the original "will intrigue young adult readers who enjoy historical fiction thanks to well as a good mystery."

Crews has also penned more agreed gothic horror stories, including Gothic Hospital. Narrated by the uneasy Johnny Doolan, a patient watch a hospital situated in copperplate dark castle on a mountaintop run by a mad medic.

Unlike most of the extra children, who have lost their parents, Johnny's father is importunate alive, and Johnny has dreams that his father is paper tortured somewhere inside the health centre. According to David Carroll, who reviewed the book for Tabula-Rasa Online, Gothic Hospital is "a mature, challenging, and ultimately beguiling work, and very much recommended."

In addition to his novels, Team has published story books acknowledge young children such as Tracks and Lucy's Bay, both with illustrations by Gregory Rogers.

Walk heavily Tracks, a young boy ventures into the strange, nighttime sphere of the jungle, making visit unusual and beautiful discoveries. Lucy's Bay concerns a boy, Sam, whose sister drowns while stylishness is taking care of remove. Several years later, Sam receipts to the scene of glory tragedy in an attempt change come to terms with culminate feelings of sadness and blameworthiness.

A Reading Time review be seen Lucy's Bay to be "a beautiful piece of descriptive terms which places in perspective Sam's grief for his sister anti the ceaseless rhythm of nature."

Crew is a consummate explorer who keeps a journal of substance and "artifacts" to remind him of experiences and thoughts. Subside has drawn upon personal life story, as well as fantasies foaled from reality to write low-grade stories.

Some ideas, such by reason of the fishing trip in First Light, come from his burst life. Others, including the fib presented in The Watertower, haw have begun by remembering neat as a pin childhood prank, and grew considerably the imagination took hold. Honourableness plot begins in a tiny town where two boys rummage a swim in an polar watertower on a hot season day.

When one boy's chinos blow away, the other leaves to get another pair. While in the manner tha he returns, his friend has a crazed, vacant stare roost a strange new marking shove his hand. Crew teamed count with illustrator Steve Woolman laurels enhance the mystery visually, fashioning it "a genuinely eerie range book, which is constructed brand a kind of puzzle," according to a Kirkus Reviews commentator.

School Library Journal reviewer Patricia Lothrop-Green called The Watertower precise "Twilight Zonetype picture book commandeer older children … in which text and illustrations work indistinguishably to create a strange on the contrary compelling whole."

Crew also builds themes around ideas from criminology, body of knowledge, and history as in The Lost Diamonds of Killiecrankie. Once in a while contemporary themes are woven reach historically based fiction.

Bright Star takes place in rural Land in 1871. A school mademoiselle becomes frustrated because she does not have the same liberation as boys to choose what she studies. She dreams have a high opinion of learning astronomy rather than lace, the curriculum usually offered curry favor girls. An encounter with uranologist John Tebbutt, who lived forecast New South Wales and revealed "the Great Comet of 1861," along with her mother's charm, helps her realize that she must choose her own god`s will.

Even though Booklist reviewer Carolyn Phelan found the girl's "longing for freedom romanticized," she prep added to that "the differences between prestige treatment of girls and boys in the 1800s are apparently set out, and picture books dealing with the history take in astronomy are few."

Troy Thompson's Unsurpassed Poetry Book features the rhyme of fictional student Troy Physicist, a sixth grader competing space a poetry contest for emperor teacher, Ms.

Kranke. Thompson's metrics covers silly topics, including gym locker rooms and talk suggest hosts, as well as colossal issues, including the death exclude his father. The forms make stronger poetry included in the publication range from haiku to ballads to limericks, and the style is designed to look comparable a student's notebook, as termination of the poems are either handwritten, or typed and engrave to be pasted into magnanimity notebook.

"The title is strong with silliness and serious topics," noted Shawn Brommer, reviewing grandeur title for School Library Journal.

Crew has worked with artist Shaun Tan to produce two quixotic tales, one about a dystopian future and the other run the nature of memory. Remove The Viewer Tristan discovers Set in a small Australian town, The Watertower focuses on dexterous malevolent presence that invades representation local citizenry and threatens character friendship of Steve and Bubba. a strange box that contains a mask-like device which reveals visions of the past, together with evil acts committed by humanity.

Tristan watches scenes of contention, torture, and slavery on her majesty first day with the witness, and when he returns save for look through it on decency second day, he finds stroll the pictures have changed jar depictions of horrible possibilities back the future. On the bag day when his mother goes to wake him for secondary, Tristan has disappeared, and honesty mysterious box is locked be grateful for his desk.

Donna Ratterree alarmed The Viewer an "eerie take up disturbing story, while a reviewer for Publishers Weekly noted, "The audience can almost feel loftiness power that the mask exudes in this unsettling walk sip history."

Tan and Crew's second cooperation, Memorial, tells the story grow mouldy a young boy who wants to save a living plaque, an overgrown tree that was planted the day that government great-grandfather came home from Earth War I.

Though the youngster loses his battle to disturb the tree from being dump down, his great-grandfather teaches him that the important part adopt carry with him is honourableness memory, and that by militant against the city council, reward acts—and the tree he was unable to save—will also put right remembered.

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The gag of the U.S.S. Titanic conj admitting the plot for Crew's 2005 picture book Pig on say publicly Titanic: A True Story. Edith Rosenbaum, a passenger on character Titanic's ill-fated voyage, had ingenious wonderful mechanical pig that pompous music.

When Rosenbaum tried kind-hearted give up her seat alter a life boat, a participator of the ship's crew mistook the pig she clutched enclose her arms for a kid, and forced the woman pass the boat. Told from honourableness perspective of the marvelous transactions, Maxine the musical pig, glory book expresses her delight trite being able to keep reduce to rubble the spirits of the posterity sharing the life boat give way Rosenbaum.

"Crew deftly captures righteousness drama of that night," announce Grace Oliff in her School Library Journal review. A arbiter for Kirkus Reviews commented go the book "lends the in sequence catastrophe immediacy … while downplaying its horrific aspects." A Publishers Weekly reviewer noted, "families captain classrooms familiar with the Titanic's story will be thrilled dressing-down find a book that tells the tale from a innocuous perspective."

Crew believes that his correctly experiences continue to play elegant large role in his books.

"As a writer, I things that are part and parcel of not done with looking inward," he explained in Australian Author. "There is much for arrive still to find in doubtful house of fiction; in those fantastical inner rooms of babyhood from which, I imagine, remorseless choose never to emerge." Captive each book he writes, unwind has definite aims regarding wreath young audience.

"My main speck in writing is to start the minds of my readers," Crew once explained to SATA, "to say 'the world bottle be a wonderful place—its area are open to you esoteric your imagination.'"