Tropedia

  • Before making a single edit, Tropedia EXPECTS our site policy and manual of style to be followed. Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so. Our policies can be reviewed here.
  • All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation.
  • All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.

READ MORE

Tropedia
Don't have an account?
Register
Advertisement
Register
Tropedia
Tropedia
158,422
pages
in: Work, Historical Fiction Literature, Fantasy Literature,
and 2 more

Barnaby Grimes

Revision as of 23:12, 28 June 2016 by Looney Toons (Message Wall | contribs) (markup, spelling)
Sign in to edit
Farm-Fresh balanceYMMV • Transmit blueRadar • WikEd fancyquotesQuotes • (Emoticon happyFunny • HeartHeartwarming • Silk award star gold 3Awesome) • RefridgeratorFridge • GroupCharacters • Script editFanfic Recs • Skull0Nightmare Fuel • Rsz 1rsz 2rsz 1shout-out iconShout Out • MagnifierPlot • Gota iconoTear Jerker • Bug-silkHeadscratchers • HelpTrivia • WMG • FilmRoll-smallRecap • RainbowHo Yay • Photo linkImage Links • Nyan-Cat-OriginalMemes • Haiku-wide-iconHaiku • Laconic • Library science symbol Source • Setting

Barnaby Grimes is a series of children's books by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, which takes place in a fictional city modeled on Georgian/Victorian-era London. Barnaby Grimes is the hero of the stories, and works as a 'Tic-tock Lad', a courier specialising in high speed errands and deliveries. Barnaby is one of the best at the job, due to his expertise in 'highstacking', which involves highly dangerous rooftop acrobatics as a means of traveling the city.

The series has a historical flavour, using period fashions and slang, but also involves a variety of supernatural elements, and can be gory at times. Barnaby acts as the stories' narrator, giving accounts of some of his more fascinating cases, while referring to others taking place either in the past or in between the events of each case, indicating that he has an extremely busy and exciting life.

As well as appealing stories, the Barnaby Grimes books also incorporate illustrations by illustrator Chriss Riddell, which fit into the tone of the series and form a significant part of the books' charm.

The books in the series include:

  • Barnaby Grimes: Curse of the Night Wolf
  • Barnaby Grimes: Return of the Emerald Skull
  • Barnaby Grimes: Legion of the Dead
  • Barnaby Grimes: Phantom Of Blood Alley
Tropes used in Barnaby Grimes include:
  • Absent-Minded Professor: Professor Pinkerton-Barnes, a zoologist who enjoys coming up with odd theories and having them disproven.
  • Badass Bookworm: Barnaby is intelligent and spends his spare time at "Underhill's Library for Scholars of the Arcane", reading through old journals. He also takes on werewolves and is rather lethal with a sword-cane.
  • Parkour/Roof Hopping: Highstacking seems to partake of a bit of both.
Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
Advertisement

Fan Feed

More Tropedia