5/30/2023 0 Comments The sleeper and the spindle book![]() ![]() Riddell draws in pen and ink, eschewing color-save for select gold accents-and pouring his energy into myriad, spidery lines and delicate cross-hatching that recall Aubrey Beardsley’s eerie set pieces. Something new is going on, and readers will be carried to the end by the whirlwind force of Gaiman’s imagination. Sioned Jacques, chair of the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals judging panel for 2016, said: We were blown away by Chris Riddell’s work in The Sleeper and the Spindle he is surely at. It isn’t until the travelers penetrate the castle that things tilt sideways. Chris Riddell is a much loved illustrator and acclaimed political cartoonist. And then you woke again, none the worse for it.” Traveling to the cursed kingdom, the queen and dwarves encounter threatening zombie sleepers and more, but the storyline is still recognizable underneath the new details. Alert readers won’t miss the hint to the queen’s identity: “Would I sleep, as they did?” she asks one of the dwarfs, who replies, “You slept for a year. ![]() ![]() Three dwarves discover a realm in which everyone has fallen asleep, and they cross into the next country to warn its queen of the great plague that threatens her people. Always a superb spinner of tales, Gaiman presents a filigreed elaboration of Sleeping Beauty that, before long, reveals itself as something more. ![]()
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