Paul Stewart, Author, Chris Riddell, Author David Fickling Books $12.95 (370p) ISBN 978-0-385-75076-9
The Edge Chronicles continues with The Curse of the Gloamglozer, the fourth fantasy tale by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. Readers return to the floating city of Sanctaphrax, where Linius Pallitrax, Most High Academe, takes on a 14-year-old...
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Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. Open Road, $9.99 trade paper (374p) ISBN 978-1-4804-1610-9
Stewart and Riddell (the Edge Chronicles) launch the Wyrmeweald trilogy with this intriguing take on dragons, set in a fantasy world where so-called wyrmes have value, but hunting them is a deadly proposition. Seventeen-year-old Micah ventures into...
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Paul Stewart, Author, Chris Riddell, Author . Random/ Fickling $14.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-385-75088-2
Stewart and Riddell, fresh from the success of their Edge Chronicles series, start anew with a style that is part Dickensian comedy, part pirate adventure. Ten-year-old Fergus Crane and his mother live in near-poverty; she runs the cake counter at...
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Paul Stewart, Author, Chris Riddell, Author David Fickling Books $12.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-75072-1
Midnight Over Sanctaphrax: The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell is the third title in the series. Here, Twig, the teenage sky pirate from the earlier titles, and his crew of elves, goblins and other creatures find Twig's father...
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Paul Stewart, Author, Chris Riddell, Author, Chris Riddell, Illustrator , illus. by Chris Riddell. Delacorte $16.99 (450p) ISBN 978-0-385-73316-8
The fertile partnership of Stewart and Riddell (The Edge Chronicles
) has produced a fine canon of Monty Python
-esque fantasy nonsense, but the silliness is taken to new heights in this charming comedy. Randalf the Wise, the only wizard in Muddle...
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Chris Riddell, Author . Harcourt $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-216493-5
Riddell's (illus. of Something Else) spunky hero has a bill the size of a clown's shoe and a comic case of the collecting bug. In one of the book's many crisp and austerely composed watercolors, Platypus proudly displays the contents of...
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Chris Riddell, Author Trafalgar Square Publishing $9.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-86264-786-5
First the monster who lives under the bed wants to get on top with Jim. Then other creatures follow, until the bed gets so crowded that Jim ends up underneath it. Ages 3-6. (May)
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Chris Riddell, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16 (24p) ISBN 978-0-15-204753-5
The playful hero returns in his third book, Platypus and the Birthday Party by Chris Riddell. Platypus and his friend Echidna, a spiny-coated fellow (similar to a porcupine) host a birthday party for Bruce, a toy platypus. Together they make an "
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Chris Riddell. Macmillan U.K. (IPG/Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $14.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-230-75980-0
Lonely Ada Goth, the heroine of this beautifully designed Gothic tribute, shares the enormous Ghastly-Gorm Hall and its magnificent grounds with her father, Lord Goth, and countless servants, yet she has no one to talk to. After befriending the...
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Chris Riddell, Author, Karrie A. Oswald, Editor Harcourt Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-216723-3
Smaller and harder to spot, Waldo returns in a quartet of hand-size paper-over-board volumes: Where's Waldo?; Where's Waldo Now?; Where's Waldo? In Hollywood; and Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey by Martin Handford. The new editions sport ...
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Claire Nielson, Author, Chris Riddell, Author, Chris Riddell, Illustrator St. Martin's Press $12.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-312-20503-4
Nieslon and Riddell team up to offer the practical insights of Buddhism to our ursine friends. Riddell has held forth on the virtues of Buddhism to domesticated animals already in Buddhism for Sheep, and his portly bear friends here discover the...
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Chris Riddell . Macmillan, $8.99 paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-44-727798-9
In the land of Thrynne, magic is under threat of being controlled and eliminated by those who fear it. Yet three orphaned tweens are sent special gifts crafted from the wood of the Forever Tree, the source of all magic. Baker Zam receives a spoon...
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