Chris Riddell
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. 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
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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...
Author
Series
Goth Girl (Chris Riddell) volume 4
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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
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
Publisher
Edelvives
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
Ada Goth vive con su padre en el antiguo Palacete Nebroso. Allí solo los acompañan un grupo de sirvientes y algunos fantasmas. El padre de Ada, Lord Goth, piensa que los niños sólo deben ser oídos y nunca vistos, así que su hija lleva unas pesadas y ruidosas botas que le advierten de su presencia. Ada dedica los días a vagar por los pasillos de su misteriosa casa, hasta que encuentra el fantasma de un ratón que murió recientemente.--Provided...
Author
Publisher
Grupo Editorial Luis Vives
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
"Se prepara una gran fiesta a la que acudirán los más célebres cocineros, pero Maltravers, el poco amistoso guardabosques de interior, ha urdido un plan diabólico. Solo Ada tiene la suspicacia necesaria para desenmascararlo y conseguir, de paso, recordarle a su padre que ese dia es también su cumpleaños."--Provided by the publisher.
Preparations for the Ghastly-Gorm Garden Party and bake-off are under way. Celebrity cooks are arriving at the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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 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 her...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 tea party and plays croquet with the Queen. Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute.
9) Art matters
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Drawn from Gaiman's trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, Art Matters is an embodiment of this remarkable multi-media artist's vision--an exploration of how reading, imagining, and creating can transform the world and our lives. Art Matters bring together four of Gaiman's most beloved writings on creativity and artistry: "Credo," his remarkably concise and relevant manifesto on free expression, first delivered in the wake of...
10) Freeglader
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 7
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2006], c2004
Language
English
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.
11) Vox
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 6
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2005], c2003
Language
English
Description
Rook Barkwater, the young librarian knight, attempts to stop Vox Verlix, the Most High Academe, in his plot to take over Edgeworld once again.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 5
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
c2002
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.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 3
Publisher
D. Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2004], c2000
Language
English
Description
Twig, a young sky pirate captain, is the only one who can save the floating city of Sanctaphrax from the Mother Storm.
14) Stormchaser
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 2
Publisher
D. Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2004], c1999
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
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 1
Publisher
D. Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2004], c1998
Language
English
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 8
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
During the coldest season, when the world feels scary -- what do you remember about being warm? Baked potatoes. Trust. A kettle on the stove. Blankets. A smile. And, most of all, the reassurance that you belong. In his powerful and moving poem, featuring illustrations from thirteen extraordinary artists, bestselling author and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Neil Gaiman draws together many different memories to answer the question, 'what do you need to...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman.
"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."—Neil Gaiman
Drawn from Gaiman's trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, Art Matters is an embodiment of this remarkable multi-media artist's vision—an exploration of how reading, imagining, and creating can transform
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