Chris Riddell, is an award-winning children’s illustrator and author as well as long-term political cartoonist for the Observer. He served as 2015-2017 UK Waterstone's Children's Laureate and his children’s books have won many major prizes, including three CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals and the Costa Children's Book Award.
Chris Riddell, is an award-winning children’s illustrator and author as well as long-term political cartoonist for the Observer. He served as 2015-2017 UK Waterstone's Children's Laureate. His books have won a number of major prizes, including the 2001, 2004 and 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse won the Costa Children's Book Award 2013. His work for Macmillan also 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 has been honoured with an OBE in recognition of his illustration and charity work. He lives in Brighton with his family.
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