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Author & Illustrator Academy: Finding Your Style

Author & Illustrator Academy: Finding Your Style

Finding Your Style

Get a sneak peek of Chris Riddell’s sketch books as he talks about his love for illustration and the choices he made when illustrating Goth Girl, Words To Life Your Life By and J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle The Bard.

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Chris Riddell

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, 2004 and 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse won the Costa Children’s Book Award in 2013. His work 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 lives in Brighton with his family.

Website: www.chrisriddell.co.uk
Twitter: @chrisriddell50
Facebook: authorchrisriddell
Instagram: @chris_riddell

Also by this author-illustrator

Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse

Illustrated by: Chris Riddell
Published by: Macmillan

The Edge Chronicles: The Curse of the Gloamglozer

Written by: Paul Stewart
Illustrated by: Chris Riddell
Published by: Corgi

Ottoline and the Yellow Cat

Illustrated by: Chris Riddell
Published by: Macmillan

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Written by: J.K. Rowling
Illustrated by: Chris Riddell
Published by: Bloomsbury

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