Chris Riddell Books in Order

Ben befriends a playful bear and brings him home, where lunch, dancing and household chores become opportunities for fun. This picture book follows their friendship through the small adventures of spending a day together.

Jim is trying to sleep when a creature under his bed asks to join him. As more unexpected visitors emerge from around the bedroom, he discovers that getting comfortable means sharing his space with monsters.

Bird steps out in new shoes, prompting other animals to show off their own fashionable possessions. As shoes, accessories and finery become objects of competition, this picture book explores the absurdities of trying to outdress everyone else.

A little girl imagines what happens when elephants take part in everyday activities. From sharing a bath or bed to riding a bicycle and playing hide-and-seek, their enormous size creates a succession of practical problems.

The Fibb family delights in astonishing stories: giant gorillas appear in the street, Martians visit the garden, and Tommy adds inventions of his own. Their extravagant claims turn ordinary family life into a contest of imaginative exaggeration.

A boy and a walrus set sail for an island inhabited by monkeys. Their visit becomes an exchange of games and favorite pastimes, with the travelers and their new companions teaching one another how they like to play.

Jack Frost brings winter to a forest that has always known summer. A young girl challenges his arrival with the energetic Bear Dance, setting movement and determination against the cold that threatens her familiar world.

Troubled by a nightmare about a monster, Oliver is carried away on a cloud to the Wish Factory. There he encounters the possibility of choosing a wish, transforming a frightening night into an unexpected adventure.

Sally discovers a magical hat and a remarkable vacuum cleaner called Zoom. Their comic-strip adventures lead through a world of imps, witches, robots and eccentric inventions, including a professor whose house is shaped like a toaster.

This illustrated gift book presents Buddhist ideas through the unlikely perspective of sheep. Brief reflections on meditation, mindfulness and Zen combine philosophical teaching with gentle visual humor, inviting readers to consider a more contemplative approach to life.

An extraterrestrial perspective turns the office into unfamiliar territory in this humorous illustrated guide to management. Strategy, finance and workplace techniques become subjects for Martian observation, highlighting the strange rituals and assumptions of organizational life.

Stories, poems and things to do are gathered in an illustrated book organized around a busy day. Chris Riddell combines reading material with activities, giving children a collection to explore at different moments throughout the day.

Political cartoons originally published in the Observer revisit public life in the 1990s. Riddell’s collected drawings offer visual commentary on the period’s politics, bringing newspaper satire together in a single volume for readers interested in the decade.

Platypus loves collecting interesting things and keeping them in a box. When a shell found at the beach repeatedly disappears, his new treasure becomes a puzzle, drawing him into a small mystery about its unexpected movements.

Platypus announces that he is having a lucky day, but kite flying and painting bring a series of mishaps. Tangled string, a troublesome tree and changing weather test his optimistic interpretation of everything that happens.

Platypus and Echidna organize a birthday party for Bruce, a favorite toy. Baking a cake and decorating should be straightforward, but Echidna’s quills complicate the balloons, making their preparations an exercise in cooperation and improvisation.

Chris Riddell imagines fifty-eight books that have never been written, pairing invented titles with illustrations. Literary classics become visual jokes and unlikely subjects, creating a collection of miniature comic possibilities inspired by the world of books.

A boy tumbles out of bed into Absurdia, where familiar objects follow strange rules. Wardrobe monsters, snoring fish and unexpected dragons populate a dreamlike landscape in which even the trees and sky refuse to behave normally.

Ottoline Brown lives among her family’s unusual collections with her companion Mr. Munroe. A series of jewel thefts and missing society dogs gives the pair a mystery to investigate, drawing their attention to a suspicious yellow cat.

Wendel, a mouse inventor, builds robots to help in his untidy workshop. When he discards Clunk and creates a more efficient replacement, the new machine’s ambitions threaten his place among the inventions he has made.

Inventor Wendel is dissatisfied with Clunk, a robot whose housekeeping includes putting tea in a boot. His replacement seems an improvement, until its pursuit of efficiency turns the workshop into a place its creator cannot control.

Ottoline joins the Alice B. Smith School for the Differently Gifted and worries that she has no special talent. With Mr. Munroe beside her, rumors of a haunting offer a chance to exercise her detective skills.

This illustrated gift book interprets ideas from Lao Tzu’s Tao Teh Ching through the behavior of babies. Philosophical reflections meet observations of infancy, suggesting that young children instinctively demonstrate principles adults struggle to understand.

An illustrated guide to imaginary extraterrestrials explains how to recognize alien invaders and respond to their plans. Invented species and impossible spacecraft share space with removable extras, including postcards, a miniature reference booklet and collectible game cards.

Mr. Munroe disappears, leaving Ottoline a puzzling clue made of string. Using her Amateur Roving Collectors’ travel pass, she sets off on a journey across and beneath the sea to discover where her companion has gone.

Colin the alien offers advice for aspiring intergalactic rulers, from selecting a sidekick and an intimidating outfit to choosing a battle cruiser. This illustrated guide supplements its comic instructions with cards, a miniature comic and a spacecraft foldout.

Ada Goth lives at Ghastly-Gorm Hall, where her father insists that children be heard before they are seen. New friends and a ghostly mouse draw her into investigating the suspicious activities of the estate’s indoor gamekeeper.

Ghastly-Gorm Hall prepares for a garden party and bake-off, bringing celebrity cooks and unusual guests to the house. Ada Goth faces troubling discoveries, a romantic proposal involving her lady’s maid and another mystery surrounding Maltravers.

On holiday in Brighton, Ada Goth encounters competing fashion figures and preparations for the World Frock Night ball. A costume competition offers an opportunity, but limited funds and complicated plans make attending the event far from straightforward.

Lord Goth’s literary dog show approaches while mysterious footprints, howling and damaged shoes unsettle Ghastly-Gorm Hall. Ada and the Attic Club investigate with the Vicarage sisters, trying to understand the strange disturbances before the next full moon.

Sixteen fundamental freedoms are explored through Chris Riddell’s illustrations in this picture book created with Amnesty International. Ideas about safety, happiness and caring for others introduce readers to the rights that shape everyday human lives.

Traditional nursery rhymes are paired with Dorothy M. Wheeler’s watercolor illustrations, first published in 1916. A foreword by Chris Riddell accompanies familiar verses about characters including Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill, with sheet music also included.

A purple fox invites Ottoline and Mr. Munroe on a nighttime urban safari to discover the city’s hidden animals. Anonymous poems appearing on lampposts create another mystery, sending Ottoline in search of an unknown, lovesick poet.

Chris Riddell depicts a hundred different hugs in a compact illustrated collection. Familiar and unexpected embraces offer moments of affection and comfort, using pictures to explore the many ways people and characters can connect.

This illustrated card game compares Shakespearean deaths using categories such as speed, brutality, gore, fairness and dramatic quality. Players select a category and compete for cards, with the characters’ last words adding another detail to each fatal encounter.

A year’s worth of drawing prompts, coloring activities and artistic suggestions encourages daily creativity. Subjects range from lunch and moods to pets, family and friends, with patterns to finish and ideas inspired by the changing seasons.

Little Green Raincape sets out through the woods to attend Rapunzel’s party. Her journey brings encounters with familiar fairy-tale characters and creatures, whose troubles, temptations and unexpected predicaments give her plenty to consider along the way.

Chris Riddell selects and illustrates forty six classic and contemporary poems about life, death and the experiences between them. Sections on youth, family, love, nature and endings pair familiar writers with modern voices and his detailed artwork.

Chris Riddell’s sketchbook records his travels as Children’s Laureate, from school and library visits to festivals. Drawings, portraits, poems and early book ideas reveal how everyday encounters and journeys feed his work as an illustrator.

Ada Goth looks forward to a music festival at Ghastly-Gorm Hall, while her grandmother seeks a fashionable wife for Lord Goth. Mysterious visitors, a wardrobe-dwelling faun and Maltravers’s schemes complicate preparations for the gathering.

Zam, Phoebe and Bathsheba discover that magic faces enemies determined to destroy the cloud horses. As fairy tales grow dangerously unruly, the three children must learn to trust their abilities and work together against the threat.

Riddell selects and illustrates classic and contemporary poems exploring love’s different forms. Admiration, passion, companionship, and separation appear across contrasting voices, with drawings accompanying a collection that traces familiar emotional experiences through verse from several generations.

Classic and contemporary poems address hope, happiness, rebellion, and life during a pandemic in Riddell’s illustrated anthology. His selection brings different poetic voices together around social concerns and personal resilience, with drawings accompanying their responses to the world.