Jenny Nimmo

Writer Charlie Bone and the Red King Her best-known work may be Children of the Red King, also known as the Charlie Bone series or Red King series, in which Charlie Bone's magical talent embroils him in the sinister intrigues of his new school. By 2006 Charlie Bone titles had been published in nine foreign-language editions. Translations into eleven other languages were in progress. Originally it was the Red King Quintet after which Nimmo contracted for a new trilogy. The story climaxes in the fifth book and again in the eighth. Recently there is a new Red King series.

Chapter books Box Boys The Box Boys and the Bonfire Cat (1999) The Box Boys and the Dog in the Mist (1999) The Box Boys and the Fairground Ride (1999) The Box Boys and the Magic Shell (1999) Delilah Delilah and the Dogspell (1991) Delilah and the Dishwasher Dogs (1993) Delilah Alone (1995) Other illustrated books ’ Novels linked to the ‘Children of the Red King’ Series’ ‘’Henry and the Guardians of the Lost’’ (2016) ‘’Gabriel and the Phantom Sleepers’’ (2018) The Magician Trilogy

In Britain this series has been published in one volume entitled The Snow Spider Trilogy.

Adaptations The Snow Spider and its sequels were adapted for television by the screenwriter Julia Jones, as three miniseries that HTV aired 1989 to 1991. The series introduced Osian Roberts as Gwyn Griffiths with Siân Phillips as grandmother Nain Griffiths, Robert Blythe and Sharon Morgan as his parents, and Gareth Thomas as Mr. Llewellyn.