Chris Riddell
Author
Series
Ottoline volume 1
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ottoline Brown and her best friend Mr. Munroe create a clever plan to solve the disappearance of several lapdogs and a string of daring burglaries in Big City.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Curated by artist and writer Chris Riddell, Poems to Live Your Life By is a beautifully-illustrated collection of the best poems for readers young and old to carry with them as they grow. The book includes works from both famous and lesser-known poets-from selections of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets to original poems by Neil Gaiman to lyrics to an indie rock song by Phoebe Bridgers. It is also divided into different thematic sections, including...
5) Platypus
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
unpaged : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Platypus thinks he has found the perfect curly shell for his collection, but it keeps disappearing.
Author
Language
English
Description
You know what it's like when your mum goes away on a business trip and Dad's in charge. She leaves a really, really long list of what he's got to do. And the most important thing is DON'T FORGET TO GET THE MILK. Unfortunately, Dad forgets. So the next morning, before breakfast, he has to go to the corner shop, and this is the story of why it takes him a very, very long time to get back. Featuring: Professor Steg (a time-travelling dinosaur), some...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
219 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm + 1 booklet in pocket
Language
English
Description
Meet Ada Goth. She lives in Ghastly-Gorm Hall with her father, Lord Goth, lots of servants and at least half a dozen ghosts, but she hasn't got any friends to explore her enormous, creepy house with. Then one night everything changes when Ada meets a ghostly mouse named Ishmael. Together they set out to solve the mystery of the strange happenings at Ghastly-Gorm Hall. And get a lot more than they bargained for.
Author
Language
English
Description
When Alice follows a rabbit down its rabbit hole, she enters a fantastical new world full of strange and nonsensical creatures. There Alice stumbles from one predicament to the next-- drinking potions that make her shrink and grow, inviting herself to a tea party with the Mad Hatter, speaking to a disappearing Cheshire Cat, and playing croquet with a Queen of Hearts who is a little too eager to behead her opponents--as life in Wonderland gets curiouser...
10) Pirate stew
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pirate stew! Pirate stew! Pirate stew for me and you! Pirate stew! Pirate stew! Eat it and you won't be blue. You can be a pirate too!
Author
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom.
15) Rabbit's wish
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When heavy rains arrive, Rabbit, a day creature, gets his wish to spend more time with his friend Hedgehog, who usually sleeps during the day.
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm
Language
English
Description
As a page in his uncle's castle in thirteenth-century England, eleven-year-old Tobias records in his journal his experiences learning how to hunt, play games of skill, and behave in noble society. Includes notes on noblemen, castles, and feudalism.
18) Stormchaser
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
384 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
370 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Apprenticed to the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax, a floating city of scholars, gossip, and treachery, fourteen-year-old Quint runs increasingly dangerous errands, which eventually bring him to a place of gruesome monsters that threaten his life and those of his friends.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
369 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rook Barkwater, one of the apprentices chosen to make a dangerous journey to study in the Deepwoods, joins the sky pirate Captain Twig in opposing the Guardians of the Night and learns more about his own past.