Chris Riddell
1) Platypus
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Platypus thinks he has found the perfect curly shell for his collection, but it keeps disappearing.
Author
Series
Ottoline volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Ottoline and Mr. Munroe, her very helpful dog, enroll in the Alice B. Smith School for the Differently Gifted and while Ottoline worries that she may not have a special gift, Mr. Munro worries about the ghost that is said to haunt the school at night.
Author
Series
Ottoline volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A string of daring burglaries has taken place in Big City, and precious lapdogs are disappearing. Who is behind this crime wave? Ottoline Brown and her best friend, Mr. Munroe, are on the case!
Author
Series
Goth Girl (Chris Riddell) volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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
Series
Goth Girl (Chris Riddell) volume 3
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
People are flocking to Ghastly-Gorm Hall from far and wide to compete in Lord Goth's Literary Dog Show. The esteemed judges are in place and the contestants are all ready to win. But there's something strange going on at Ghastly-Gorm - mysterious footprints, howls in the night and some suspiciously chewed shoes. Can Ada, the Attic Club and their new friends the Vicarage sisters work out what's going on before the next full moon?
Author
Language
English
Formats
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. This queen will decide her own future -- and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 4
Language
English
Formats
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.
12) Pirate stew
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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!
13) Stormchaser
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
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
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twig, a young sky pirate captain, is the only one who can save the floating city of Sanctaphrax from the Mother Storm.
Author
Series
Barnaby Grimes volume 1
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Soon after Victorian messenger Barnaby Grimes is attacked by a huge beast while crossing London's rooftops, he becomes entangled in a mystery involving patent medicine, impoverished patients, and very expensive furs.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 5
Language
English
Formats
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.
17) Freeglader
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 7
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook Barkwater and the librarian knights and Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quint finally begins his training at the Knights Academy, Maris adjusts to life in Undertown, and Sanctaphrax shivers in anticipation of a legendary storm, while a storm of a different kind brews between sky-scholars and earth-scholars.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 9
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quint leaves his studies at the Knights Academy in Sanctaphrax to assist his father, Wind Jackall, in his obsessive and dangerous quest to track down and bring to justice the evil Turbot Smeal.
20) Vox: Vox
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 6
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
THE ROOK TRILOGY, Book II
High in the crumbling Palace of Statues, oily Vox Verlix—the Most High Academe in name, but really no more than a lowly prisoner—is brewing a terrible plot to take over power in Edgeworld once again. Rook stumbles upon the truth when he is taken captive and forced to work for Vox. Can Rook foil Vox's plan and save the lives of his librarian colleagues?
High in the crumbling Palace of Statues, oily Vox Verlix—the Most High Academe in name, but really no more than a lowly prisoner—is brewing a terrible plot to take over power in Edgeworld once again. Rook stumbles upon the truth when he is taken captive and forced to work for Vox. Can Rook foil Vox's plan and save the lives of his librarian colleagues?