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Chris Riddell

Illustrator, writer and political cartoonist Chris Riddell was awarded both the Smarties Silver Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal for Pirate Diary (written by Richard Platt). He also won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver (retold by Martin Jenkins). Chris illustrates the hugely successful Edge Chronicles (written by Paul Stewart) and is the author and illustrator of the Ottoline series. Chris lives in Brighton with his wife, three children and imaginary dog.

Featured Books, with extracts illustrated by Chris Riddell

Muddle Earth Too
Paul Stewart
Invention after invention propels this witty new Muddle Earth story by best-selling duo Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, now in paperback. Joe turns up in Muddle Earth entirely by accident when he falls through a portal while trying to build...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2012
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Thawing Frozen Frogs
Brian Patten
Age 7+. A wonderful collection of witty and thought provoking poems on every subject you can think of. Ever thought Why Toads Look Much More Serious Than Frogs? Probably not. But, after reading Brian Patten’s poem you may look at...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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Muddle Earth Too
Paul Stewart
Invention after invention propels this witty new Muddle Earth story by best-selling duo Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. Joe turns up in Muddle Earth entirely by accident when he falls through a portal while trying to build a flat-pack wardrobe....
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2011
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The Graveyard Book (illustrated by Chris Riddell)
Neil Gaiman
11+. Winner of the Carnegie Medal in 2010, shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2010, winner of Best Novel at the Hugo Awards 2009 and of the prestigious Newbery Medal. Spooks galore in this brilliant and fantastic story of life...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2009
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Books illustrated by Chris Riddell

Muddle Earth Too
Paul Stewart
The eagerly waited, brilliantly bonkers, ingeniously inventive and utterly fantastic sequel to MUDDLE EARTH ... has landed! Now in paperback.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2012

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Thawing Frozen Frogs
Brian Patten
Ever joined a Giant's family dinner, kept a pet wig, thawed a frozen frog or snaffled a giraffe? Thawing Frozen Frogs is a brilliantly inventive collection from one of the UK's top performance poets
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012

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Something Else
Kathryn Cave
There is a small creature who does his best to join in with the others. But he's different. No matter how he tries, he just doesn't belong. Then Something turns up and wants to be friends. But Something Else isn't...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011

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Mr Underbed
Chris Riddell
When Jim kindly allows Mr Underbed to sleep in his bed he is unprepared for all the other night-time visitors who want to share it too.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011

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Wyrmeweald: Wyrmeweald: Returner's Wealth
Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Seventeen-year-old Micah, enters the wyrmeweald full of hope to return home having made his fortune. But this is a land where wyrmes, fabulous dragon-like beasts, roam wild and reign supreme. In Wyrmeweald man is both hunter and hunted - and...
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Muddle Earth
Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Welcome to the hilarious and downright outrageous world of Muddle Earth ... now with an eye-catching new cover look!
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2011

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Castle Diary
Richard Platt
Sent to his uncle's castle for a year to learn to be a page, ten-year-old Toby keeps a detailed journal of everything that happens there - from such great events as a boar hunt and a tournament to more everyday...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011

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Pirate Diary
Richard Platt
Presents the adventures of Jake Carpenter, cabin boy. This book includes information and facts about swashbuckling seafarers of the 1700s.
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011

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Don Quixote
Martin Jenkins
Tells the tale of Don Quixote, an elderly Spanish gentleman, who reads one too many chivalric romances, and decides to become a knight errant, accompanied by his faithful 'squire' Sancho Panza. He sets off on his travels through sixteenth-century Spain...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010

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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
Lewis Carroll, Chris Riddell
When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the angry Red Queen. Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010

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The Immortals
Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
Nate Quarter, a young Lamplighter from the mines of the eastern woods is propelled on an epic journey of self-discovery that encompasses tournaments, battles, revolutions and a final encounter with the Immortals themselves.
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010

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Barnaby Grimes: Barnaby Grimes: Phantom of Blood Alley
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 and mystery. After an experiment goes disastrously wrong, Barnaby finds himself on the trail of a mad chemist with a talent...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010

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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver
Jonathan Swift

Format: Paperback - Released: 02/11/2009

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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
WINNER of the 2010 Cilip Carnegie Medal, the Newbery Medal and the Booktrust Teenage Book Prize 2009, and shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award Stunningly illustrated by Chris Riddell, who brings the ghouls, ghosts and hero wonderfully to life in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2009

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Barnaby Grimes: Barnaby Grimes: Legion of the Dead
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 and mystery. In each tale, he encounters a supernatural force and must battle the horrors that await him. This book tells...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2009

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Edge Chronicles: The Lost Barkscrolls
Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
Features stories from each of the Edge trilogies: one from the time of Twig, one from the time of Quint, Twig's father, and one from the time of Rook, Twig's grandson.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/09/2008

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Barnaby Grimes: Barnaby Grimes: Return of the Emerald Skull
Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
After collecting a strange parcel from a deserted ship in the fog of the docks, and delivering it to the local schoolmaster, Barnaby Grimes thinks he's earned a moment to sit on the rooftops and eat his favourite pasty. But...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008

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Wendel's Workshop
Chris Riddell
Crazy inventions, mad robots and a stupendous battle!
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2008

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, Chris Riddell
On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and plays croquet...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/02/2008

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Barnaby Grimes: Barnaby Grimes: Curse of the Nightwolf
Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
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 a world of crooked doctors, poor and ill-advised patients, strange...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008

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Edge Chronicles: Clash of the Sky Galleons
Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
Quint is travelling with his father, Wind Jackal, on a mission to track down and bring to justice Turbot Smeal, the man who started the fire that killed their family. But Wind Jackal is consumed by his desire to capture...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007

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The Emperor of Absurdia
Chris Riddell
Put on your jingle-jangle socks, and prepare for adventure!
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2007

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Hugo Pepper
Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
Part of the Far-Flung Adventure series, this is the tale of a small boy, Hugo Pepper. Raised in the Frozen North by reindeer herders, his parents eaten by polar bears when he was just a baby, Hugo discovers that the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2007

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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver
Jonathan Swift
Contains all four of Gulliver's extraordinary voyages.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/09/2006

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Politics - Cutting Through the Crap
Bali Rai
What is politics? How does Parliament work? Is the great British democracy even a true democracy? This book provides the information that teenagers want to know. Along with irreverent footnotes and a 'Get Involved' section with a list of Websites...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/09/2006

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Edge Chronicles No. 8: The Winter Knights
Paul Stewart
In the great floating city of Sanctaphrax, blizzards howl through the streets as the Edgeworld descends into an endless winter. Quint, the son of a sky pirate, has just begun his training at the Knights Academy. But when Quint breaks...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2006

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Edge Chronicles S. Bk. 3: Midnight Over Sanctaphrax
Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
Twig, the young sky pirate captain who had dared to sail over the Edge - but returned with his memory shattered and his crew flung far and wide. But to recover his memory and take action, Twig must first find...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2006

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Edge Chronicles: Freeglader
Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook Barkwater and his colleagues - the librarian knights, Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends - must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades. But perils aplenty are...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2006

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Edge Chronicles: The Last of the Sky Pirates
Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
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 to explore the mysteries of their world. Somewhere out there...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2006

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Edge Chronicles: Vox
Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
High in the Palace of Statues, oily Vox Verlix - nominally the Most High Academe but no more than a prisoner in reality - is brewing a terrible plot to destroy the goblins and the shrykes at a stroke, leaving...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2006

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Beyond the Deepwoods
Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
Young Twig lives in the Deepwoods, among the woodtrolls, but he isn't one of them. In a brave attempt to find out where he truly belongs, Twig wanders into the mysterious, and sometimes hazardous world beyond the Deepwoods. In his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2006

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Edge Chronicles S. Bk. 2: Stormchaser
Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
Since his childhood in the Deepwoods, young Twig has always longed to soar above the forest canopy and explore the sky. Now a lowly crew-member on his father's sky pirate ship, the Stormchaser, his dream seems fulfilled. But a much...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2006

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Edge Chronicles: The Curse of the Gloamglozer
Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
Quint is the son of a sky pirate captain. He 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 important tasks. Just how...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2006

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Out for the Count
Kathryn Cave
When Tom finds it hard to get to sleep, counting sheep is just the beginning - counting pythons and pirates, vampires bats and ghosts is a lot more fun. Readers are led on a wild and woolly counting adventure that...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2006

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Pirate / Castle Diary Flip-Over
Richard Platt
What was it really like to live in a castle during the Middle Ages? What kind of life did a pirate lead in the 1700s? This book has the answers. Two young boys keep journals of their day-to-day lives in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2006

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Fergus Crane
Paul Stewart
A mysterious flying box appears at the window of Fregus Crane's quayside home and Fergus is plunged headlong into an exciting adventure when the box is followed by a winged horse that whisks him off to his long lost uncle...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2005

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The Story Giant
Brian Patten
A magical story that weaves together fifty world tales, by a renowned poet, and illustrated by 2002 Greenaway Medal winner Chris Riddell.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2004

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Edge Chronicles: Edge Map
Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
This volume includes two illustrated maps and a book of characters, places and extra facts, to supplement 'Edge Chronicles'.
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2004

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Muddle Earth
Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Where would you find a place that's home to a wizard with only one spell, an ogre who cries a lot and a very sarcastic budgie? Welcome to Muddle Earth; a place where anything can happen - and usually does....
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2004

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Blobheads Go Boing!
Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Four, laugh-out-loud, totally ridiculous adventures from the hugely popular creators of The Edge Chronicles - in one big fat volume.
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2004

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Angus Rides the Goods Train
Alan Durant
When the goods train, laden with milk, honey, and rice, speeds away across land and sea, Angus is full of excitement as he stands beside the driver. But why won't the train stop for those who are hungry and thirsty?...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2004

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Gargling with Jelly A Collection of Poems
Brian Patten
Includes hilarious, lyrical, outrageous and serious poems. This work also includes naughty children with nasty habits, cartoon heroes that come to life, lonely caretakers, unhappy ghosts, fantastical creatures with crazy names, giants, goblins, vampires, and mermaids.
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/08/2003

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Pirate Diary The Journal of Jake Carpenter
Richard Platt
This text provides a rollicking historical account of a young pirate's life.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2003

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Castle Diary
Richard Platt
This text provides a rollicking historical account of a young castle-dweller's life in the Middle Ages.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2003

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Blobheads
Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Billy Barnes has found weird, purple, alien Blobheads in his toilet, where they arrived through an alpha-gamma space-time wormhole. Inter-galactic beings Kerek, Zerek and Derek, searching for the Most High Emperor of the Universe, believe Billy's bathroom holds the key...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2003

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Tall Story
Frieda Hughes
Mickey is always telling lies - not just small ones. but enormous ones too. Awful things happen when he goes to stay with his Grandma and his lies start to come true. When he says there are frogs in the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/11/2002

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Rent-a-friend
Frieda Hughes
Poor Danny is lonely. When he goes to the pet shop to try to find a dog, the owner offers Danny something else instead - a living, breathing, human friend of his own. Danny then begins to realize that perhaps...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/11/2002

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Pirate Diary The Journal of Jake Carpenter
Richard Platt
In 1716 Jake Carpenter joins his Uncle Will aboard the Greyhound, to become a sailor, but when the Greyhound is captured by pirates he embarks on an exciting new life on the wrong side of the law. This is a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/10/2002

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Rabbit & Hedgehog: A Little Bit of Winter
Paul Stewart
It is autumn and time for Hedgehog's annual sleep. He asks Rabbit to save him a little bit of winter, so that when he wakes up he can see what it's like. But Rabbit is an animal full of forget....
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/10/2000

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Juggling with Gerbils
Brian Patten
A collection of poetry, ranging in both form and subject matter.
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2000

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Until I Met Dudley
Roger McGough
Familiar machines, explained by Dudley, the techno-wizard dog.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/1999

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Scribbleboy
Philip Ridley
Bailey arrives in a new neighbourhood with his family. He has no friends but receives a mysterious invitation to join the Scribbleboy Fan Club. Swept along in plans to discover the identity of the mythical artist, Bailey carries on his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/1997

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Something Else
Kathryn Cave
This is a simple story about a creature called Something Else who is excluded from his neighbour's activities because he behaves and looks different. But then when an even stranger creature tries to make friends with Something Else, he doesn't...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/05/1995

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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
Lewis Carroll, Chris Riddell
When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters who behave very strangely. Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the dotty White Knight and the sharp-tempered Red Queen - none of them are...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/06/1994

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Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth
Ted Hughes
Ffangs lived with the other vampires on Vampire Island, but he was different from the rest as he couldn't stand the sight of blood. When he arrives in London everyone is too frightened to listen while he tries to explain...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/1990

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