Philip Reeve
Philip Reeve was born and raised in Brighton, where he wrote his first story at the tender age of five about a spaceman called Spike and his dog Spook. He is a talented illustrator and writer, and he has illustrated several titles in the Horrible Histories series. Philip is best known for his multi award-winning Mortal Engines quartet, which won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, and the Guardian Children's Book Award. Philip has also won the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal with Here Lies Arthur.
Books
A Darkling Plain
Author: Philip Reeve
Publisher: Scholastic
Interest age: 11-13
Reading age: 11+
Far into the future, cities are earth-churning, mobile predators which eat smaller towns and villages and fight the Anti-tractionists, who long for the demise of the cities and for the world to be green again.
Here Lies Arthur
Author: Philip Reeve
Publisher: Scholastic
Interest age: 10+
Reading age: 11+
The violence is darkly terrifying, the sense of landscape immediate and haunting and Gwyna/Gwyn's shifting gender permits Reeve to cast a unique, strikingly vivid glimpse into dark-age Britain.
Kevin's Great Escape
Author: Philip Reeve Illustrator: Sarah McIntyre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Interest age: 6-8
Reading age: 7+
The second brilliant adventure featuring the exploits of Kevin the flying pony - this time, pop star Misty Twiglet wants to buy him, but will his friend Max be able to stop her?
Larklight
Author: Philip Reeve Illustrator: David Wyatt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Interest age: 8+
Reading age: 8+
Award-winning Reeve indulges his love of historical technology in a new novel for younger readers, which is as captivating as the Mortal Engines quartet was for an older audience.
Mortal Engines
Author: Philip Reeve
Publisher: Scholastic
Interest age: 11+
Reading age: 11+
London is on the move again: the traction city trawls the world on wheels, capturing and eating smaller towns.
Oliver and the Seawigs
Author: Philip Reeve Illustrator: Sarah McIntyre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Interest age: 7+
Reading age: 8+
Philip Reeve and Sarah McInytre have joined forces to create a wonderfully wacky nautical tale.
Pugs of the Frozen North
Author: Philip Reeve
Illustrator: Sarah McIntyre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Interest age: 7+
Reading age: 7+
A race to the far north among some very unconventional competitors and their vehicles. A winning combination of text, image, humour and sadness.
RailHead
Author: Philip Reeve
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Interest age: 12+
Reading age: 8+
A sci-fi adventure about a petty thief who gets in way over his head when he's asked to infiltrate the Emperor's train.
Starcross
Author: Philip Reeve Illustrator: David Wyatt
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Interest age: 8+
Reading age: 9+
Volume two in the Larklight saga continues all the delightful eccentricities of its predecessor, and further convinces us of Reeve's amazing literary versatility.
The Legend of Kevin
Author: Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Interest age: 7-10
Reading age: 7+
Max longs for adventure in his life – then one day, a flying pony called Kevin crashes into his flat, blown in by a magical storm. Mayhem, friendship and a brilliant cast of characters combine in this fabulously funny tale.