Richard Thompson

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1987
  • Latest Book:
    March 2019
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Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • Sky Full of Babies

  • Foo

  • I Have to See This

  • The Last Story, The First Story

    This is the extraordinary adventure of 11 year old friends Summer and Orin, who live in the mountains of British Columbia. Soon after the death of Summer's father, she and Orin travel to a mysterious land of "The Children of the Known", where eve...

  • Gurgle Bubble Splash

    The ocean cannot bear Jesse's departure after her first glorious vacation at the seashore and decides to mail itself to her house in a large crate, making life nearly impossible for her water-logged neighbors....

  • Frog's Riddle: And Other Draw and Tell Stories

    What does the ghost at Peterson's farm have in common with Hank and the tooth fairy? What similarities do Claudette, Tiki, Buko and the wanderer share? Where would you find the Pizza Peddler, the Horn Players, Will's Gift and the Locked Box? Disc...

  • Tell Me One Good Thing

    Tell Me One Good Thing is a collection of six new bedtime stories and five poems that are quite diverse in tone and setting: some sweet and gentle, others scurrilous and fantastical. All are so rich and engaging that children will want to hear th...

  • Jill and the Jogero

  • The Ice Cream Bucket Effect

    Once again northern Canada's best-known storyteller takes us on a tour of the town of New Totem on the "Vast Northern Prairie." We meet again with the Trotter family and their friends in this second book of tall tales based on growing up in the Peace...



  • Don't Be Scared, Eleven

  • Who

    When Bartholomew and Eleanor Owl name their children Night, Moon, and Tomorrow, the gods after whom they are named give them gifts, but they become so proud that the gods insist on taking their names back...

  • Cold Night, Brittle Light

  • Then and Now

    This illustrated poem is a perfect read-aloud concept book for the very young reader. The simple vocabulary lets new readers follow the process of change as calves grow into cows, seeds grow into flowers, a river flows into the sea.

    ...

  • There Is Music in a Pussycat

    A young boy and his pussycat discover a world of sounds in this early-level, phonics-based reader.

    From the music of the pussycat to father singing in the shower, young readers will delight in the sounds they discover.

    ...

  • The Follower

    The new collaboration between author Richard Thompson and illustrator Martin Springett is an eerie picture-book poem perfect for late-night reading. What is following the young witch home every night past the frightening statues and the sinister ...

  • The Night Walker

    Late one afternoon a young Native boy goes exploring over the hills and through the forests beyond his home. At his side, he carries a walking stick and a pouch in which to place interesting objects he finds along the way. But as his pouch fills with...

  • Cul De Sac

    "I hope you enjoy Cul de Sac as much as I do. I think you're in for a real treat." --Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, 2008"One of the five best features in any newspaper, period." --The Comics Reporter"One of the few strips around where ...

  • Cul de Sac Golden Treasury

    The Cul de Sac Golden Treasury is a hilarious and beautiful omnibus of cartoonist Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac comic strips, bringing together strips from the first collection, Cul de Sac, and the 2009 collection, Children at Play.

    A lighth...

  • The Mighty Alice

    Cul de Sac is a lighthearted comic strip about the suburban life of a precocious preschooler named Alice Otterloop. Richard Thompson's wonderful watercolor and fun, imaginative drawings have garnered the attention of highly acclaimed illustrators all...



  • The Complete Cul de Sac Volume One

  • The Complete Cul de Sac Volume Two

  • Villains Always Make Mistakes

    Aaron Recess is a glazier for Cape Verdean Glass. Until his co-worker introduces him to cocaine, weed is the only drug that Aaron does. He snorts the cocaine in his frontroom while being watched by Danielle, a firebrand woman with frightening normal...

  • Mighty Alice Goes Round and Round

    Cartoonists are passionate about Richard Thompson's work, and Cul de Sac has been given high praise from Bill Watterson.

    Cul de Sac chronicles the absurdly wonderful adventures of the Otterloop family. Alice, Petey, Mom, and Dad live in the cooki...

  • Though the Young Redwood Grows

    Though the young redwood grows is a supernally happy story with childhood surliness that explains how machines exist to augment man and may cast off the shackles of his physical limitations. This tale is about a capacity for empathy that had never ex...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Thompson has published 24 books.

Richard Thompson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Though the Young Redwood Grows, was published in March 2019.

The first book by Richard Thompson, Sky Full of Babies, was published in September 1987.

No. Richard Thompson does not write books in series.
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