The Sleeper and the Spindle - Hardcover

Gaiman, Neil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062398245 ISBN 13: 9780062398246

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2015

Synopsis

In a beautiful collaboration, New York Times bestselling and Newbery and Carnegie Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman and Kate Greenaway-winning illustrator Chris Riddell have created a thrillingly reimagined fairy tale, "told in a way only Gaiman can" and featuring "stunning metallic artwork" (GeekInsider.com).

The result is a beautiful and coveted edition of The Sleeper and the Spindle that the Guardian calls "a refreshing, much-needed twist on a classic story."

In this captivating and darkly funny tale, Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell have twisted together the familiar and the new as well as the beautiful and the wicked to tell a brilliant version of Snow White's (sort of) and Sleeping Beauty's (almost) stories.

This story was originally published (without illustrations) in Rags & Bones (Little, Brown, 2013). This is the first time it is being published as an illustrated, stand-alone edition, and the book is a beautiful work of art.

About this title

Review:

"Gaiman and Riddell's greatest [collaboration] to date."--Tor.com

"A refreshing, much-needed twist on a classic story."--The Guardian

"Magical, sumptuous, transporting."--The Big Issue

"Unforgettable, unpredictable and utterly enchanting for anyone between the ages of seven and seventy."--Amanda Craig, The New Statesman

"A wholly original reimagining...Riddell's artwork is the reason a library should own this title in their collection. His details are exquisite."--Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)

"A striking volume...thrums with malevolence and confounds our expectations...[the pictures] seem to writhe creepily on the page."--Wall Street Journal

"Unabashedly feminist...So sonically tuned that it breathes on its own from the very first line. Adding to the wonder are Chris Riddell's dazzling illustrations."--New York Times Book Review

"Told in a way only Gaiman can" and featuring "stunning metallic artwork."--GeekInsider

"Spellbindingly illustrated."--Gaby Wood, Saturday Telegraph

"A genuine treat."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Book Description:

The bestselling, award-bedecked Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell are reunited in this irresistibly twisty fairy-tale reboot, with glorious gold ink adding lustre to an amazingly beautiful book. Winner of The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2016

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0062398245
• ISBN 13: 9780062398246
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64
• Illustrator: Riddell Chris