Lewis Carroll's
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has delighted and entranced children for over a hundred years. Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, he studied at Christ Church College, Oxford where he became a mathematics lecturer. The Alice stories were originally written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of his college.
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 2013. His work for Macmillan also includes the bestselling Ottoline books,
The Emperor of Absurdia, and, with Paul Stewart, the
Muddle Earth books,
the
Scavengerseries,
and the
Blobheads series. Chris has been honored with an OBE in recognition of his illustration and charity work. He lives in Brighton with his family.