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Chris Riddell Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2016 UK Illustrator Nomination PHOTO : JO RIDDELL PHOTO
Chris Riddell Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2016 UK Illustrator Nomination PHOTO : JO RIDDELL PHOTO 1 Chris Riddell Biography Chris Riddell A Critical Appreciation Chris Riddell was born in South Africa. His father Richard Platt. This book and the earlier Castle Diary Chris Riddell is highly regarded in the UK and well as young readers’ chapter books, he addresses was an Anglican clergyman and his parents were involved him in detailed historical research, which internationally as a visual commentator and an audience that is often neglected: readers active in the anti-apartheid movement. His family he deployed in typically boisterous, characterful narrator; an artist and illustrator in command of who are still young enough to enjoy illustrations returned to Britain when Chris was a year old and and humorous style. Perhaps his most demanding a range of forms and genres varying from political supporting a narrative, but also old enough to he spent his childhood moving from parish to illustration project to date followed in 2004 with satire and cartoon to picture books, graphic novels engage with more sophisticated subject matter. parish. His interest in drawing began then and was his illustrations to Martin Jenkins’ adaptation of and cross-over forms. His broad understanding of Chris Riddell’s biggest virtue, however, is not that encouraged at secondary school. He remembers, Gulliver’s Travels, a classic whose combination visual communication, coupled with his classical he satisfies the expectations of theoretical analysis, “I had a wonderfully idiosyncratic art teacher, Jack of satire and fantasy played to his strengths as drawing ability and extended frame of reference, but that he can do so whilst communicating with Johnson, a painter who’d also been a newspaper an illustrator and earned him the second Kate has earned him the respect of broad and diverse and convincingly addressing his audience. -
WPS Reading List
Recommended Reading Lists Reception – Year 6 Reception Reading List Title Author Winnie the Pooh A A Milne The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin Jnr The Little Red Hen Byron Barton Not Now Bernard David McKee Handa’s Surprise Eileen Browne The Elephant and the Bad Baby Elfrida Vipont & Raymond Briggs The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Where’s Spot? Eric Hill We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Helen Oxenbury The Tiger Who Came to Tea Jill Tomlinson The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark Jill Tomlinson The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler I Will Never Eat a Tomato Lauren Child Stone Soup Marcia Brown The Rainbow Fish Marcus Pfister Farmer Duck Martin Waddell Owl Babies Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson Once Their Were Giants Martin Waddell and Penny Dale Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak One Snowy Night Nick Butterworth Clifford the Big Red Dog Norman Bridwell There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly Pam Adams Rosie’s Walk Pat and Laurence Hutchins Dear Zoo Rod Campbell Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney and Garth Williams Dogger Shirley Hughes Winnie the Witch Valerie Thomas & Korky Paul Year 1 Reading List Title Author The Gigantic Turnip Aleksei Tolstoy Croc and Bird Alexis Deacon The Mrs Pepperpot Stories Alf Proysen Funnybones Allan Ahlberg The Jolly Postman Allan Ahlberg The Giant Baby Allen Ahlberg Woof Allen Ahlberg The Astonishing Case of the Stolen Stories Anca Sandu Sea Cat and Dragon King Angela Carter The Diary of a Killer Cat Anne Fine Ask Me Antje Damm Frog -
Recommended Reading List for 5Th Class
Recommended Reading List for 5th Class If you like books about FRIENDS or SCHOOL, try these … Book Title Author Wonder R. J. Palacio The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket John Boyne The Penderwicks (Series) Jeanne Birdsall The Underneath Kathi Appelt Coram Boy Jamila Gavin Holes (Series) Louis Sachar If you like ANIMALS and HORSES, try these … Book Title Author Run to the Wild Wood (Series) Tom McCaughren The Quest Begins (Seekers Series) Erin Hunter Into the Wild (Warriors Series) Erin Hunter The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips Michael Morpurgo Kaspar Prince of Cats Michael Morpurgo The Underneath Kathi Appelt An Elephant in the Garden Michael Morpurgo War Horse Michael Morpurgo Wolf Brother (Series) Michelle Paver Watership Down Richard Adams Black Beauty Anna Sewell A Boy and his Bear Harriet Graham Phantom Stallion Terri Farley If you like A GOOD LAUGH, try these … Book Title Author Horrible Histories (Series) Horrible Histories Granny Anthony Horowitz Which Witch? (and other titles) Eva Ibbotson The Beasts of Clawstone Castle Eva Ibbotson Holes (and other titles) Louis Sachar There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom Louis Sachar The Robe of Skulls (Series) Vivian French Skulduggery Pleasant (Series) Derek Landy Howl’s Moving Castle (Series) Diana Wynne Jones Cosmic (and other titles) Frank Cottrell Boyce If you like A GOOD SCARE, try these … Book Title Author Goosebumps (Series) R. L. Stine Scream Street (Series) Tommy Donbavand Ghosthunters -
5Th Form: Suggested Reading List
5th Form: Suggested Reading List. The ‘Classics’ Louisa May Alcott – Little Women J.M. Barrie – Peter Pan Enid Bagnold – National Velvet Lucy M. Boston – The Children of Green Knowe series Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland Susan Coolidge – What Katy Did Next series Richmal Crompton – Just William Kenneth Grahame – Wind in the Willows Frances Hodgson Burnett – A Secret Garden; The Little Princess Ted Hughes – The Iron Man Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House on the Prairie series Rudyard Kipling – Just So Stories; The Jungle Book C.S. Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia L.M. Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables series E. Nesbit – The Railway Children; Five Children and It Mary Norton – The Borrowers series Philippa Pearce – Tom’s Midnight Garden (and others) Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons series Ian Serraillier – The Silver Sword Anna Sewell – Black Beauty Johanna Spyri – Heidi Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island Noel Streatfield – Ballet Shoes (and others) J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobbit Sylvia Waugh – The Mennyms series Contemporary Fiction Joan Aiken – The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (and others) David Almond – The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas Sam Angus – Soldier Dog, Hero Nina Bawden – The Peppermint Pig (and others) Benjamin, Floella – Coming to England Jeanne Birdsall – The Penderwicks Tim Binding – Sylvie and the Songman Pseudonymous Bosh – The Name of this Book is Secret, You Have to Stop This John Boyne – Noah Barleywater Runs Away, The Thirteen Things that Happened to Barnaby Brockett David Calcutt – Shadow Bringer Elen Caldecott