A very beautiful edition of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem illustrated by Chris Riddell, the Children's Laureate.
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.
Chris Riddell provides bold illustrations, which genuflect to Henry
Holiday's charismatic ink originals while having a personality of
their own. -- The Times * The Times *
Chris Riddell is an extraordinary talent - this is a wonderful
book, an edition of the Snark to be treasured, and Macmillan are to
be congratulated for marking the 150th anniversary of this fabulous
book with such an exquisite edition -- Paul Norman * Books Monthly
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This cherishably beautiful hardback of Carroll's epic nautical
nonsense poem has absorbing illustrations by the incomparable
children's laureate, Chris Riddell -- Nicolette Jones * The Sunday
Times *
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