Paul Stewart
Paul Stewart is the very funny, very talented author of more than 15 books for children, including The Edge Chronicles, a collaboration with Chris Riddell.
He is a graduate of Lancaster University and of the University of East Anglia's creative writing course. For several years he taught English as a foreign language in Sri Lanka. Returning to England, he continued teaching before becoming a full-time writer.
Books
Barnaby Grimes: Return of the Emerald Skull
Author: Paul Stewart
Illustrator: Chris Riddell
Publisher: Random House
Interest age: 10+
Reading age: 10+
Barnaby Grimes tackles the evil of the Emerald Skull as he tries to save the local school from madness and destruction.
Dogbird and Other Mixed-Up Tales
Author: Paul Stewart Illustrator: Tony Ross
Publisher: Random House
Interest age: 6+
Reading age: 7+
Alice's new budgie won't talk, but when it does, its barking drives everyone mad. However, then they discover how useful a barking budgie can be.
Muddle Earth
Author: Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell Illustrator: Chris Riddell
Publisher: Macmillan Children's books
Interest age: 9+
Reading age: 9+
Randalf is an apprentice wizard – he only knows one spell and some of that is guesswork – but he is the only wizard left to save Muddle Earth from the evil Dr Cuddles.
Scavenger: Chaos Zone
Author: Paul Stewart
Illustrator: Chris Riddell
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Interest age: 9+
Reading age: 9+
The second in the Scavenger series, Chaos Zone finds York and his robot Zoid friend Belle exploding from a ventilation tube into a strange forest. A thousand years into space, the animals and plants aboard the city-sized Biosphere spaceship have mutated. But what has happened to the humans on board the ship?
The Edge Chronicles: Beyond the Deepwoods
Author: Paul Stewart
Illustrator: Chris Riddell
Publisher: Random House
Interest age: 10+
Reading age: 9+
The first book of The Edge Chronicles which sees Twig start his quest to find out who he really is.
The Edge Chronicles: Doombringer
Author: Paul Stewart
Illustrator: Chris Riddell
Publisher: Corgi
Interest age: 11+
Reading age: 11+
Cade and his friends are forced into action to defend their beloved home; they must summon the combined forces of the Deadwoods to repel the force of their enemies.
The Edge Chronicles: Midnight Over Sanctaphrax
Author: Paul Stewart
Illustrator: Chris Riddell
Publisher: Corgi
Interest age: 10+
Reading age: 10+
A storm is brewing far in the open sky, headed straight for the floating city of Sanctaphrax. But, when Twig has lost his memory of being warned of this catastrophe, he must find his crew and save the day.
The Edge Chronicles: Stormchaser
Author: Paul Stewart
Illustrator: Chris Riddell
Publisher: Corgi
Interest age: 10+
Reading age: 10+
The second part of the Twig Saga follows Twig as he joins the crew of the Stormchaser in a dangerous quest to collect stormphrax to save the floating city of Sanctaphrax.
The Edge Chronicles: The Nameless One
Author: Paul Stewart
Illustrator: Chris Riddell
Publisher: Corgi
Interest age: 10+
Reading age: 10+
Fleeing the scene of his father's murder in the city of Great Glade, Cade Quarter smuggles himself onto the Xanth Filatine, a floating skytavern that journeys over the vast landscape of The Deadwoods.
WyrmeWeald: Returners Wealth
Author: Paul Stewart Illustrator: Chris Riddell
Publisher: Corgi Children's
Interest age: 12+
Reading age: 13+
Heartbroken Micah runs away from the flat, featureless plains to climb the distant inhospitable mountains in search of returner's wealth...