Chris Riddell
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Description
Chris Riddell ( rid-EL) (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born English illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the Observer. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals – the British librarians' annual award for the best-illustrated children's book, and two of his works were commended runners-up, a distinction dropped after 2002. Books that he wrote or illustrated have won three Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes and have been silver or bronze runners-up four times. On 9 June 2015, he was appointed the UK Children's Laureate.
Books
Ottoline goes to school
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.
Wendel's Workshop
Wendel invents a robot to clean up his workshop, but has to come up with another solution when that robot gets out of control.
Emperor of Absurdia
A young boy journeys through a strange land, where he finds wardrobe monsters, pillow hills, and umbrella trees, in search of a dragon.
Ottoline and the yellow cat
Children's storybook with lots of pictures by the author. Ottoline Brown lives with Mr. Monroe, a small and hairy creature from a bog in Norway. The pair solve a mystery involving missing jewels, missing lap dogs and a mysterious yellow cat.
Midnight over Sanctaphrax
Twig has the caterbird tethered to his ship, the edgedancer, and is being led into a storm never seen before, on his way to find his father. Twig soon learns that this storm is the mother storm, and that the mythical place, called riverisse is real. And is torn between a simple yet complicated choice. Cut the anchor chain of sanctaphrax, and all of the edges knowledge, to save riverisse, or have the mother storm destroy sanctaphrax, die off and riverisse run dry, thus the only clean water source in the edge, which will surely lead to peril. What will he do?
Platypus and the birthday party
Platypus and his friend Echidna have a birthday party for Bruce, a toy platypus.
Platypus
Platypus thinks he has found the perfect curly shell for his collection, but it keeps disappearing.
Smasher
When Mrs. Buzzard wants to get rid of the big, ugly dog that creates a lot of trouble, Farmer Buzzard decides on a plan to save this lovable monster from banishment.
The Schoolmouse
Flora, the world's most educated mouse, saves her family during a crisis.
When the walrus comes
A boy and his walrus friend sail to an island crowded with monkeys, where they teach each other their favorite activities and have a great time playing.
The wish factory
Bothered by a nightmare about a monster, Oliver is taken by a cloud to the Wish Factory to receive the wish of his choice.
The bear dance
When Jack Frost brings gray winter to a forest where it has always been summer, a young girl brings sunlight back by engaging Mr. Frost in a vigorous Bear Dance.
The trouble with elephants
A little girl describes the various problems with elephants, but decides the real trouble with elephants is that you can't help but love them.
Bird's new shoes
Rat, Goat, Snake, and other animal acquaintances get into an argumentative frenzy over what is the latest fashion in clothing.