The Hunting of the Snark

Riddell has reinstated its oddness with his glamorous, fantastical caricatures and super-skillful line – The Times on Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland illustrated by Chris RiddellA delicious new edition, with colour plates and pencil sketches by this remarkable artist – Irish Independent on Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland illustrated by Chris RiddellRiddell’s rich and evocative interpretation of Carroll’s world brings new light and life to Alice’s memorable journey of exciting trials and tribulations – Lancashire Evening Post on Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There illustrated by Chris Riddell

Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, Dodgson was a mathematics tutor at Christ Church College, Oxford, where he met Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean, and inspiration for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The book and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, have delighted children all over the world for 150 years.Chris Riddell, the 2015-2017 UK Children’s Laureate, is an accomplished artist and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He has enjoyed great acclaim for his books for children. His books have won a number of major prizes, including the 2001 and 2004 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse won the Costa Children’s Book Award 2013. His previous work for Macmillan includes the bestselling Ottoline books, The Emperor of Absurdia, and, with Paul Stewart, the Muddle Earth books, the Scavenger series and the Blobheads series. Chris lives in Brighton with his family.