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Chris Riddell
Ada Goth is the only child of Lord Goth. The two live together in the enormous Ghastly-Gorm Hall. Lord Goth believes that children should be heard and not seen, so…
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Morbidly funny, literarily accurate, trivially entertaining, wittily illustrated, and even educational - this top trumps card game has a lark with everyone’s favorite Shakespearean construct, the amazing deaths!
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The first book in Chris Riddell’s much-loved Ottoline series. Now in paperback for the first time.
A glorious Ottoline story from award-winning author and illustrator Chris Riddell. Now available in paperback for the first time.
A charming and irresistible Ottoline story from award-winning and bestselling author Chris Riddell.
A collection of beautiful and heart-warming illustrated hugs from Chris Riddell, Children’s Laureate 2015-2017.
A beautiful illustrated record of Chris Riddell’s time as the Children’s Laureate 2015-2017
Ottoline and Mr Munroe go on a secret city safari in the fourth book in the award-winning Ottoline series, from Children’s Laureate, Chris Riddell.
Enter the fantastic world of Absurdia in this imaginative adventure story from the award-winning picture book creator, Chris Riddell.
A gorgeous, heart-warming anthology of poems about love and romance selected and illustrated by Chris Riddell.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
On one level this work is the story of an airman’s discovery of a small boy from another planet in the desert and his stories of intergalactic travel, and on…
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Stewart,Chris Riddell
Wake up, Sir Knight!
Wake up!
My eyes snapped open, and I sprang to my feet, drawing my sword as I did so.
There was the merchant, the whites of…
Neil Gaiman
This box set contains the British paperback editions of three bestselling Neil Gaiman classics, all illustrated by acclaimed artist Chris Riddell, to complete your collection!
The editions of the Newbery…
Paul Stewart,Chris Riddell
Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, high-stacking his way across the rooftops of his city in search of adventure. In the competitive world of early photography, the rewards are immense…
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Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather ramshackle cruise ship, the S.S. As the ship arrives at its destination, Corby must enlist the help…
In the great floating city of Sanctaphrax, Quint, the son of a sky pirate, has just begun his training at the Knights Academy. But when Quint breaks the rules and…
A thrillingly reimagined fairy tale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell - weaving together a sort-of Snow White and an almost Sleeping Beauty…
Freeglader is the dramatic and exciting conclusion to the Rook Barkwater sequence that takes the reader on a thrilling journey across the Edgeworld.
Paul Cookson
Composed throughout the initial phase of the UK’s coronavirus lockdown, Paul Cookson’s poetry diary covers the period of 23rd March to 3rd July 2020. Compassionate, political and principled, and laced…
A warm and funny celebration of poets and poetry.
Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2010.
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The second in a trilogy of brilliantly hilarious tales of chivalry and derring-do from the bestselling duo behind The Edge Chronicles.
Quint arrives in Sanctaphrax at the request of Linius Pallitax, the Most High Academe, who needs an apprentice he can trust to carry out a series of highly important tasks…
Paul Stewart,Chris Riddell,Chris Riddell
Behind me, a loud, beastlike roar went up. I turned to see a great hulk of a man – all hairy jowls and heaving gut – lumbering from leg to…
In his continuing adventures, the unbonded knight Free Lance–with the help of his new squire, Wormrick–tries to save a lady of the court from a disastrous marriage by defying a…
Barnaby Grimes is attacked one night by a dog. He kills it - but that’s not the end of this particular mystery - as Barnaby finds himself swept up in…
Chris Riddell,Paul Stewart
Fullwinter in the weald - a season of almost unsurvivable cold for anyone foolish enough to venture outside. Huddled in a winter den, Micah is thankful to cragclimber Eli Halfwinter…
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And more and more settlers heading up to the high country, the bones of those who don’t make it littering the way, stark and white, picked clean by carrionwyrmes -…
Jonathan Swift
Voyage to Lilliput, the first adventure in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, is illustrated by new Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell.
Brian Patten
Featuring naughty children with nasty habits, cartoon heroes that come to life, lonely caretakers, unhappy ghosts, fantastical creatures with crazy names, giants, goblins, vampires, mermaids, this volume includes a collection…
Francesca Gibbons
The thrilling sequel to the best-selling middle-grade debut of Autumn 2020
From Children's Laureates Michael Rosen and Chris Riddell, the bestselling team behind A Great Big Cuddle, comes a first book of nursery rhymes.
Flying pigs, wobbling plates of jelly and…
Rook Barkwater lives in the network of sewer-chambers beneath Undertown, the bustling main city of the Edgeworld. He dreams of becoming a librarian knight - one of those sent out…
Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, young librarian knight Rook Barkwater and his colleagues - Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends - must lead the escaping population to a…
This deluxe edition of the New York Times bestselling The Sleeper and the Spindle comes in a beautiful slipcase, complete with gold foil artwork and gilded page edges.
New York…
Lewis Carroll
When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the angry Red…
Chris Riddell,Amnesty International
A classic picture-book edition of My Little Book of Big Freedoms illustrated by the former Waterstones Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell and published in partnership with Amnesty International UK.
Paul Stewart
This uplifting collection from Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart’s wonderful world of Rabbit and Hedgehog includes all four stories:Rabbit’s WishA Little Bit of WinterWhat Do You Remember?
Joanne Rippon
A picture celebration of protest for children aged 8-12.
Seventeen-year-old Micah, enters the wyrmeweald full of hope to return home having made his fortune. Together they join forces on a mission to rescue the hatchling - and seek vengenace…
Originally published: Great Britain: Doubleday, 2004.
Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and high-stacking around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve.
In Dickensian times, people were terrified of being buried alive, and so were left in their coffin with a wire, attached to a bell, running from above the ground, down…
