Pick the Lock illustrator-Chris Riddell and Rudi and Peter are

and Rudi and Peter are forced to choose between playing by the rules and taking their dreams underground

especially when suspicious visitors to her ruined home seem to have a keen and ominous interest in her

An inspiring picture book biography of the artist Paul Cezanne

—the bells blast

But did it

Pick the Lock illustrator-Chris Riddell and Rudi and Peter areJane Vandermaker Cook would like her mother back. As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father who confines Janes mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever shes at home. And then there's weirdly ever present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane, this all seems normal until she suddenly gains access to the