Legion of the dead
Barnaby Grimes is pitted against an army of Victorian-era zombies. The funeral of a master criminal brings a dozen squabbling gangs together for a moment of peace, but when Barnaby shortcuts through the graveyard and sees the body rise from the earth, a terrifying mystery is born.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
David Fickling Books,
2010, c2008.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
| Series: | Barnaby Grimes
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| Summary: | Barnaby Grimes is pitted against an army of Victorian-era zombies. The funeral of a master criminal brings a dozen squabbling gangs together for a moment of peace, but when Barnaby shortcuts through the graveyard and sees the body rise from the earth, a terrifying mystery is born. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in Great Britain by Doubleday in 2008. |
| Physical Description: | 224 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780385751315 (trade) 9780385751322 (lib. bdg.) 038575132X (lib. bdg.) 0385751311 |
| Author Notes: | Chris Riddell was born on April 13, 1962. He is a British illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for The Observer. He has won two Kate Greenaway Medals, the British librarians' annual award for the best-illustrated children's book, and two of his works were commended runners-up. Books that he wrote or illustrated have won three Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes and have been silver or bronze runners-up four times. He was shortlisted for the 2015 Kate Greenaway Medal for his title Goth Girl: And the Ghost of a Mouse. He was named the ninth Waterstones Children's Laureate in 2015. Riddell was presented with a Children¿s Laureate medal and a £15,000 (A$30,014) bursary cheque at a ceremony in London, where he announced plans to promote visual literacy during his two-year term. (Bowker Author Biography) |
