Deluxe edition of the thrillingly reimagined fairy tale by the magical partnership of award-bedecked, bestselling Neil Gaiman and Children's Laureate Chris Riddell. The hit fairy-tale reboot is back in an exclusive slipcase and larger format, with gold ink adding lustre to Gaiman's words and Riddell's art and a collectable print with every copy - promising to hold readers spellbound from start to finish

Winner of Kate Greenaway Medal 2016.

Spellbindingly illustrated -- Gaby Wood Saturday Telegraph Suffused with joy and melancholy and underpinned by the knowledge of where it comes from and where it wants to go ... It is absolutely a retelling for our age, but also for ages still to come -- Lucy Mangan The Guardian Magical, sumptuous, transporting The Big Issue Unforgettable, unpredictable and utterly enchanting for anyone between the ages of seven and seventy -- Amanda Craig The New Statesman Will hold the reader spellbound from start to finish The Guardian

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. The L.A. Times has described his multi-million-selling graphic novel series Sandman as 'the greatest epic in the history of comic books'. 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. He has also written two amazing episodes of Doctor Who and appeared in The Simpsons as himself. 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. www.gaimanbooks.co.uk @neilhimself http://www.gaimanbooks.co.uk/ Chris Riddell is a much loved illustrator and acclaimed political cartoonist. He won the 2013 Costa Children's Book Prize for Goth Girl and has won the Nestle Gold Award and two Kate Greenaway Medals. He is co-creator of the hugely successful New York Times bestseller The Edge Chronicles, and is the current UK Children's Laureate.