Alan Snow

Alan Snow is an English artist, working with books, animation, film and computers. He has written and illustrated over 160 books for children, including How Dogs Really Work, The Truth About Cats, and How Santa Really Works. He has also worked on a very diverse range of other projects, including work on the design of a children's science museum in Japan and the design of a project robot currently on sale worldwide.

Here Be Monsters is Alan's first novel.

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How Santa Really Works Pop-Up Edition
Alan Snow
This wonderful pop-up adventure reveals just how Father Christmas goes about his very important business and Christmas.  Children will love the pop-up engineering throughout the book that helps to tell Santa's story.  Have you ever wondered how Santa can pop...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/11/2010
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Worse Things Happen at Sea: The Ratbridge Chronicles Vol 2
Alan Snow
This is the second in The Ratbridge Chronicles.  However, like the first it is a stand-alone novel in its own right.  It’s a tale of pirates, poison and monsters and swashbuckling adventure on the high seas as the doctor of...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2010
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Here Be Monsters, The Man In The Iron Socks
Alan Snow
The second part of Alan Snow’s highly illustrated odyssey in the wonderfully weird world of Ratbridge where sinister goings on are commonplace and good gets to triumph over evil. This is the second in a trilogy. Pants Ahoy is...
Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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Here Be Monsters, Cheese Galore!
Alan Snow
Funny, surprising and completely unputdownable, this is the third in a trilogy. Surreal with hugely appealing out of this world characters. Ratbridge is an awe inspiring place to visit and re-visit. Pants Ahoy is the first, and the
Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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Here Be Monsters, Pants Ahoy!
Alan Snow
The first in the enormously inventive, endlessly entertaining, overwhelmingly original and astonishingly illustrated ‘Here be Monsters’ series set in the unbelievably weird world of Ratbridge. Eccentric and zany, fast-moving and funny with a Dickensian feel about it. Fans of A...
Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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Here Be Monsters!: The Ratbridge Chronicles Vol 1
Alan Snow
7-9 years. This is a book which all too rarely comes along.  Full of imagination, strange creatures, inventions and happenings; I’ve not found a reader who hasn’t absolutely adored it whether they’re 7 or 12 or 72.  Illustrated quite...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2006
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