Chris Riddell
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Language
English
Description
Ottoline Brown and her best friend, Mr Munroe, are usually insperable. But Mr Munroe has gone on a secret mission to Norway to find the snaggle-toothed, super-hairy Quite Big Food. Ottoline sets off over the sea by submarines, silver seaplane and even a raft to find Mr Munroe - before he comes face to face with the terrible troll all on his own.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Language
English
Description
Ada Goth is the only child of Lord Goth. The two live together in the enormous Ghastly-Gorm Hall. Lord Goth believes that children should be heard and not seen, so Ada has to wear large clumpy boots so that he can always hear her coming. This makes it hard for her to make friends and, if she's honest, she's rather lonely.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Language
English
Description
Lord Goth is throwing a music festival at Ghastly-Gorm Hall, with performances from the finest composers in the land. Ada can't wait, but it's quite distracting when her grandmother is trying to find her father a fashionable new wife, there's a faun living in her wardrobe and Maltravers is up to his old tricks. Ada must make sure everything goes to plan, and luckily help is at hand from a very interesting house guest.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Language
English
Description
Preparations for the Ghastly-Gorm Garden Party and bake-off are under way. Celebrity cooks are arriving at the hall for the big event and, true to form, Maltravers, the indoor gamekeeper, is acting suspiciously. Elsewhere at Ghastly-Gorm Ada's wardrobe-dwelling lady's maid Marylebone the bear has received a marriage proposal. Ada vows to aid the course of true love and find out what Maltravers is up to, but amidst all this activity, everyone, including...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
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. Sir Walter Splott is preparing his Lanarkshire Lurcher, Plain Austen is preening her Hampshire Hound and Homily Dickinson and her Yankee Poodle are raring to go. But there's something strange going on at Ghastly-Gorm - mysterious footprints, howls in the night and some suspiciously...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's
Language
English
Formats
Description
Skyfish nibble umbrella trees, pointy birds steal scarves to line their pointy nests, and dinner is served before lunch. It's an absurd world. Young children will be enchanted by this entertaining story of dragon hunts and hairy wardrobe monsters.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Ottoline and Mr Munroe love puzzles, clues and mysteries. One day, they meet an enigmatic purple fox, who offers to take them on a night-time urban safari. The fox shows them all the hidden animals of the city and Ottoline makes notes on them in her field notebook. Mr Munroe is making notes too - on the anonymous poems he finds stuck to lampposts on their journey. Who is the secretive poet, and how can he and Ottoline help them mend their broken heart?...
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The complete story and original illustrations of 'Wendel's Workshop' by Chris Riddell have been specially designed into an early reader format. Created with expert advice from a literacy consultant, this new version is intended to help and encourage children who are growing in reading confidence.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Meet Ottoline and her hairy, helpful friend Mr Munroe. No secret is ever too scary for the two of them to discover together. Ottoline is off to the Alice B. Smith School for the Differently Gifted. She is rather worried that she doesn't have a special gift.
15) Coraline
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Language
English
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Description
When Coraline explores her new home, she steps through a door and into another house just like her own - except that it's different. It's a marvellous adventure until Coraline discovers that there's also another mother and another father in the house. They want Coraline to stay with them for ever.
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Language
English
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Description
When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, & 'high-stacking' around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. In this story, Barnaby is attacked by an enormous dog. He kills it, but then he finds himself swept up in a world of crooked doctors, poor & ill-advised patients, & very expensive furs.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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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.
20) Zoid
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A spaceship the size of a city drifts through space on its century-long journey to find a new Earth. When it launched it was populated by thousands of hopeful passengers and the most technologically advanced Zoids in the world, ready to serve the crew's every need. But that was then, and this is now. The Zoids rebelled against their masters, wiping out most of the crew in one bloody uprising. Now the few remaining humans are hunted by the Zoids like...