The Watertower

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Whilst I was reading, I was confronted with a strong haunting feeling that something wasn't quite right. Chester's first hotel, the Royal Hotel built on the site where the present Grosvenor Hotel now stands. The language is appropriate for the time and setting, and the theme is well-developed; however, the reader has the opportunity to draw his own conclusions about what is happening in the text. Gary Crew wrote a dark and mysterious picture book about two boys, Spike, and Bubba who make their way up to Preston's old mysterious water tower even though the two boys knew they had no business being up there.

Woolman not only illustrated the book but designed it as well, and the design is inordinately innovative. In California and some other states, domestic water towers enclosed by siding ( tankhouses) were once built (1850s–1930s) to supply individual homes; windmills pumped water from hand-dug wells up into the tank in New York.Our eyes were drawn to certain aspects of the pictures and we decided what the importance of these things might be. In the opening lines, Crew (1998) creates suspense, "Nobody in Preston could remember when the watertower was built, or who had built it, but there it stood on Shooters Hill--its iron legs rusted, its egg-shaped tank warped and leaking--causing a long, dark shadow across the valley, across Preston itself. The Union Watersphere is a water tower topped with a sphere-shaped water tank in Union, New Jersey, [10] and characterized as the World's Tallest Water Sphere.

The water tower is extremely creepy, and it feels that the two unsuspecting characters are walking into a trap by going there. Left: the artist of this 19th century watercolour of the Watertower employed a remarkable degree of artistic licence as he happily moved the Cathedral halfway across the city so as to allow it to appear in his painting! Bubba's mother only appears in one illustration in the text, and she is seen standing at a window staring at the watertower.Alexander is a junior and will be attending Georgia Tech in the fall, studying Environmental Engineering. Water Tower in Burbank, California (In the animated TV series Animaniacs, it was used to incarcerate the characters Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, as well as to serve as their home. This cookie is used to a profile based on user's interest and display personalized ads to the users. Included was the construction of a remarkable two-dimensional maze (one without high surrounding hedges) which consists of coloured paths- the Jubilee colours of red, white and blue- that may be followed, hopefully, to reach the centre. Paulsen (1995) also suggests "The Watertower belongs to a new niche in children's literature, that of the picture book for mid-primary to mid-secondary readers .

They will help to assess the understanding of the text, characterisation and attitudes along with promoting deep discussion on inference and decision-making both within the text and illustrations. The writing on the first book was better than in the sequel, but the art in the sequel is better than the first book. I’d say it’s a little on the short side really which stops it having the impact that it could do, but it’s still very creepy, particularly when you look at the detail in the pictures to tell a different story to the words.Gary Crew has been awarded the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the year four times: twice for Book of the Year for Young Adult Older Readers (Strange Objects in 1991 and Angel’s Gate in 1993) and twice for Picture Book of the Year with First Light in 1993 (illustrated by Peter Gouldthorpe) and The Watertower (illustrated by Steven Woolman) in 1994. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Architects and builders have taken varied approaches to incorporating water towers into the design of their buildings. After splashing around a little in the water Bubba decides to get out of the water, but finds that his pants are gone off the top of the water tower.

I'm sure there are kids (older ones) who will find this a fun, scary read, but it just sort of made my skin crawl unpleasantly. The expression on her face is sinister, and there is a reflection of the tower that can be seen in the upper, left-hand corner of the window above her head.The upper room has only four windows, and that to the right of the entrance is presumably a replacement of the original. Water towers can be surrounded by ornate coverings including fancy brickwork, a large ivy-covered trellis or they can be simply painted. The plot is about two boys in their mid-teens who decide to go for a swim in a mysterious watertower that stands on a hill overlooking the town of Preston, Australia.