The Viewer - Hardcover

Crew, Gary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1894965027 ISBN 13: 9781894965026

Publisher: Simply Read Books, 2003

Synopsis

The use of a Viewmaster-like object found while scavenging at the dump results in teenaged Tristan seeing surprising images and leads to unforeseen consequences.

About this title

About the Author:

Gary Crew was born in 1947 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and he began writing fiction--mostly teenage, young adult fiction--in 1985. He has twice been awarded the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award (for Strange Objects, 1991, and Angel's Gate,1993). Gary has also been twice shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Fiction Award for Youth in the U.S. and awarded the American Children's Book of Distinction Award. He also won the Ned Kelly Prize for Crime Fiction. He has twice won the CBC Book of the Year in the picture book category. He is the series editor of Lothian's After Dark series of macabre tales. His books are published internationally.

Award-winning artist and author Shaun Tan has achieved international recognition for his work, including the CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award for this book, an Honor Book Award for Memorial (with G. Crew) and The Lost Thing, an APA Design Award, an Honorable Mention at the Bologna Book Fair, three Aurealis Awards, and Spectrum Gold and Silver Awards. In 2001 he was named best artist at the World Fantasy Awards in Montreal. A graduate of the University of Washington in 1995, with honors in fine arts and English literature, he lives in Perth, Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simply Read Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1894965027
• ISBN 13: 9781894965026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Tan Shaun