New Releases by Chris Riddell

A boy, orphaned and raised in the Frozen North by reindeer herders, boards his birth parents'' sled and sets its special compass to "Home, " where he uncovers a plot that threatens his mermaid godmothers and other friends of his family.

Bind-up of three hilarious fantastical adventures of a mercenary knight by the best-selling creators of THE EDGE CHRONICLES.

Nine-year-old Fergus Crane''s life is filled with classes on the school ship Betty Jeanne, interesting neighbors, and helping with his mother''s work until a mysterious box flies into his window and leads him toward adventure.

While traveling with her family aboard the S.S. Euphonia, eight-year-old Corby Flood accidentally attracts the murderous attentions of five men, clad in bowler hats, called the Brotherhood of the Clowns as she investigates the mysterious singing coming from the ship''s hold.

Using data spanning a half century for adjacent jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada, we study the long-term effects of a very generous unemployment insurance (UI)program on weeks worked. We find large effects. For example, in 1990, about 6 percent of employed men in Maine''s northernmost counties worked fewer than 26 weeks per year; just across the border in New Brunswick that figure was over 20 percent. According to our estimates, New Brunswick''s much more generous UI system accounts for about two thirds of this differential. Even greater effects are found among women and less-educated men. We argue that our longer-run, crossnational perspective generates more substantial estimates of program effects because it captures workers'' abilities to make a wider variety of adjustments to programs they expect to be permanent.

An exclusive story, tracing the history of Maugin the Stone Pilot, who Twig meets in STORMCHASER. Maugin is a termagent trog, destined to change from a beautiful delicate creature into the fearsomely impressive adult termagant at her first blooding, due very soon. But an ill-fated trip above ground to release her prowlgrin pet into the wild ends with her capture by mercenary Deepwoods slavers. Maugin''s subsequent sale to a terrifying scientist - for use in some kind of macabre experiment - could be the end of her - but for the actions of a young sky pirate, Quint Verginix. When Quint takes her on board his father Wind Jackal''s skyship, Maugin experiences a world a million miles away from her underground home and begins a new future as a Stone Pilot. A wonderful accompaniment to the series and a must for any Edge Chronicles fan. Told in the first person, we finally discover how the delicate young trog came to be so far from home.

The son of a sky pirate captain is plunged into a terrifying adventure when he accidentally invokes an ancient curse.

A brilliantly witty collection of sketches from master artist Chris Riddell. Alice in Sunderland, A Brief History of Tim and One Hundred Years of Solihull. All literary classics...Or are they? The Observer political cartoonist Chris Riddell imagines what the world would be like if there really had been a novel called Wuthering Tights and expertly illustrated them accordingly This hilarious book collects over forty-five black and white sketches (originally printed in the London Review of Books) based on the titles of well-known literary mainstays.;A deliriously comic gift that will appeal to all ages

A young knight librarian tries to stop the dark might of oily Vox Verlix from taking over power in Edgeworld.

Chockful of suspense, humor, and action-packed illustrations, topped off witha surprising and twisted climax, this first episode in a new adventure seriesintroduces knight-for-hire Free Knight, who is tapped to recover an enchantedcrown from the legendary Lake of Skulls.

In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father''s sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stormphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.

The first in a series of stories about the fantastical adventures of a mercenary knight by the best-selling creators of THE EDGE CHRONICLES

Platypus''s lucky day does not turn out exactly the way he thought it would.

The most High Emperor of the Universe (Billy''s baby brother, Silas) is in great danger. The Blobheads must protect him from the wickedest monster in all creation - a huge creature with twenty-six arms, eight glowing eyes and vile breath, known only as Sandra. And Sandra is a master of disguise.

There''s all sorts of fun, such as sailing to an island and singing and dancing with monkeys, when the walrus comes to visit.

Ben invites a bear home for tea, and the two have a fun-filled afternoon.