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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

Coraline
Neil Gaiman
Tenth anniversary edition of Neil Gaiman's modern classic, brilliantly illustrated by Chris Riddell, with a new foreword by the author. When Coraline’s family move into a new home, she steps through a door into another house which seems strangely familiar....
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2012
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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, 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...
Featured in: 7+ readers | Poetry
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

Let's Read! The Emperor of Absurdia
Chris Riddell
Let's get reading with Macmillan early readers!
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2013

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Let's Read! Wendel's Workshop
Chris Riddell
Let's get reading with Macmillan early readers!
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/02/2013

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Wyrmeweald: Bloodhoney
Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
Huddled in a winter den, Micah is thankful to cragclimber Eli Halfwinter for providing him and kingirl Thrace with shelter, while Thrace aches to leave and fly through the skies on her whitewyrme once more. But sniffing out their whereabouts,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2013

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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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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: 26/04/2012

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Wyrmeweald 1: 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...
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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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...
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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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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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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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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 Edge Chronicles 10: The Immortals The Edge Chronicles
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 4: 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 3: 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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The Lost Barkscrolls The Edge Chronicles
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 2: 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 grinning cat and a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter's Tea...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/02/2008

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Barnaby Grimes 1: 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...
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The Edge Chronicles 3: Clash of the Sky Galleons: Quint Saga Book 3 The Edge Chronicles No. 1
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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Far-flung Adventures 2: 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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The Edge Chronicles 2: Winter Knights: Quint Saga Book 2 The Edge Chronicles: Quint Saga Book 2
Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
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...
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Edge Chronicles 1: Edge Chronicles 1: The Curse of the Gloamglozer First Book of Quint
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 highly important tasks.
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The Edge Chronicles 6: Midnight Over Sanctaphrax: Twig Saga Book 3 The Edge Chronicles: Twig Saga Book 3
Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
Sanctaphrax will be destroyed by the energy of the mother storm... Far over the Edge, the Mother Storm is brewing - a storm more terrifying than any seen in the lifetime of any Edgelander. But in its way is Sanctaphrax...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2006

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The Edge Chronicles 5: Stormchaser: Twig Saga Book 2 The Edge Chronicles: Twig Saga Book 2
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...
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The Edge Chronicles 4: Beyond the Deepwoods: Twig Saga Book 1 The Edge Chronicles: Twig Saga Book 1
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...
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Edge Chronicles 9: Freeglader: Rook Saga Book 3 The Edge Chronicles: Rook Saga Book 3
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...
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Edge Chronicles 7: Last of the Sky Pirates: Rook Saga Book 1 The Edge Chronicles: Rook Saga Book 1
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...
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Edge Chronicles 8: Vox: Rook Saga Book 2 The Edge Chronicles No 8
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...
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Far-flung Adventures 4: Corby Flood
Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather ramshackle cruise ship, the SS Euphonia. As the ship arrives at its destination, Corby must enlist the help of some very well moustachioed locals to uncover the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006

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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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Far-flung Adventures 3: Fergus Crane
Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
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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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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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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Rabbit & Hedgehog 6: Rabbit's Wish
Paul Stewart
Rabbit and Hedgehog are the best of friends, even though Rabbit is awake all day, but Hedgehog is only awake at night. Rabbit finds himself wishing that Hedgehog could stay up all day, just once. Will Rabbit's wish come true?
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2002

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Rabbit & Hedgehog 7: 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 a forgetful animal. Will he...
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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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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Dakota of the White Flats
Philip Ridley
When Dakota Pink decides to find out the truth about Medusa's baby monster, it is the beginning of a quest that will lead Dakota and her best friend, Treacle, away from the White Flats to Dog Island and the Fortress.
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/04/1996

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The Abradizil
Andrew Gibson
One day, Franz goes on an errand to the magician Grinwiss. Before long, he has made some odd friends and joined in an attempt to overthrow the city's ruler, Horg. Franz's band must also deal with Count Ferencz. Since Grinwiss...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/05/1992

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