This edition contains beautiful new black, white, and metallic silver art by UK Laureate Chris Riddell.

The New York Times bestselling duo behind The Sleeper and the Spindle have created a breathtaking new edition of Neil Gaiman’s Odd and the Frost Giants. He is co-creator of the hugely successful New York Times bestseller The Edge Chronicles.NEIL GAIMAN ODD & FROST GIANTS ILLUS HC (C: 0-1-0) He won the 2013 Costa Children's Book Prize for Goth Girl and has won the Nestle Gold Award and two Kate Greenaway Medals.

Chris Riddell is a much loved illustrator and acclaimed political cartoonist. In 2013 he published his first adult novel for seven years, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which received stellar reviews and was a bestseller around the world. He has also written two amazing episodes of Doctor Who and appeared in The Simpsons as himself. Many of his books, including Coraline and Stardust, have been made into films Neverwhere has been adapted for TV and radio and American Gods is in development as a major HBO series. Times has described his multimillion-selling graphic novel series Sandman as 'the greatest epic in the history of comic books'. Neil Gaiman has written highly acclaimed books for both children and adults and is the first author to have won both the Carnegie and Newbery Medals for the same work - The Graveyard Book. Lavishly produced and packed with Chris Riddell's glorious illustration enhanced with metallic ink, this is a spectacular and magical gift. This rich and layered tale of courage is told with humour and in breathtaking style by two creators at the height of their powers: from the author of modern classics such as American Gods, Coraline and The Sleeper and the Spindle, Odd and the Frost Giants will leave you spellbound. Now our hero must reclaim Thor's hammer, outwit the frost giants and release the gods. The eagle, bear and fox Odd encounters are Norse gods, trapped in animal form by the evil frost giants who have conquered Asgard, the city of the gods. Fleeing to the woods, Odd stumbles upon and releases a trapped bear. Odd, a young Viking boy, is left fatherless following a raid and in his icy, ancient world there is no mercy for an unlucky soul with a crushed foot and no one to protect him.

A thrilling, wintry Nordic epic from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell, weaving a tale of legend, magic and adventure which will grip and enchant readers from beginning to end.

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