The Hunting of the Snark is Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem which uses characters, setting and vocabulary from the Jabberwocky, a poem which appears in Through the Looking Glass.
It was first published by Macmillan in 1876.
This irresistible version is illustrated, and has an introduction by, Chris Riddell, author of the Goth Girl and Ottoline books. Chris Riddell, the 2015-2017 UK Children's Laureate, is an accomplished artist and the political cartoonist for theObserver. He has enjoyed great acclaim for his books for children. His books have won a number of major prizes, including the 2001 and 2004 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. Goth Girl and The Ghost of a Mouse won the Costa Children's Book Award 2013. His previous work for Macmillan includes the bestselling Ottoline books, The Emperor of Absurdia, and, with Paul Stewart, the Muddle Earth books, the Scavenger series and the Blobheads series. Chris lives in Brighton with his family.
