![]() ![]() Shortlisted for The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2016. Lavishly produced, packed with glorious Chris Riddell illustrations enhanced with metallic ink, this is a spectacular and magical gift. Twisting together the familiar and the new, this perfectly delicious, captivating and darkly funny tale shows its creators at the peak of their talents. This queen will decide her own future and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems. ![]() He has won the Costa Childrens Book Award, the Nestlé Gold Award is the only artist to have won the Kate Greenaway. 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. Chris Riddell is a much loved illustrator and acclaimed political cartoonist. ![]() On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. A thrillingly reimagined fairy tale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell weaving together a sort-of Snow White and an-almost Sleeping Beauty with a thread of dark magic, which will hold readers spellbound from start to finish. The bestselling, award-bedecked Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell are reunited in this irresistibly twisty fairy-tale reboot, with glorious gold. ![]()
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