Reading Gary Crew Books

This week we are reading some more Gary Crew Books. We will be studying some of the language he uses to create great descriptions.  We are reading: Even Miss B’s cat Stormy likes to read Gary Crew Books. Here she is reading ‘First Light’. I think she was looking for a fish. Or maybe she…

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Bonus Homework Week 3 Term 1

Last week we read ‘The Watertower’ by Gary Crew and it’s sequel ‘Beneath the Surface’. Like many of Gary Crew’s books, the ending was left unexplained. We can only guess what happened to Bubba in the first book and Spiros (Spike) in the second book.     This week’s bonus homework tasks are to visit the…

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The Watertower

For the last couple of weeks 5/6J have been reading, studying, discussing, pondering, theorising and writing about “The Watertower” and its sequel “Beneath the Surface”, written by Gary Crew and Illustrated by Steve Woolman. We spent hours analysing the illustrations, searching for clues, trying to piece together the story… What happened to Spike and Bubba?…

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