Krindlekrax, or, How Ruskin Splinter battled a horrible monster and saved his entire neighborhood /
by Philip Ridley ; illustrations by Gary Hovland.
- 1st American ed.
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992.
- 141 p. : ill. ; 22 cm,
Although he is very thin with frizzy hair and thick glasses, nine-year-old Ruskin believes he is born to be a hero and sets out to prove it by delivering his beloved Lizard Street from the menace of Krindlekrax.