Beneath the Surface (picture book)

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Beneath the Surface

First edition
Author	Gary Crew
Illustrator	Steve Woolman
Publisher	Hodder Children's Books Australia
Publication date	2004
Preceded by	The Watertower

Beneath the Surface (ISBN 9780733619328) is a children's picture book by the author Gary Crew and illustrated by Steven Woolman. It is a sequel to The Watertower. It was published in 2004, 10 years after its predecessor.

It is about Dr Spiro Trotter, aka Spike from The Watertower, who is a hydrologist. He returns to Preston, twenty years from the events of the last novel, to test the water in the mysterious watertower on the hill. The words in the book describe Spike's actions, while the pictures on each page skip all around the world. Spike drinks the water and gets possessed. ^[1]