Doctor Who Storybook 2009

The Doctor Who Storybook 2009 was published in 2008.

Overview

 * Release Number 2
 * Publisher Panini, UK
 * Released in August 2008
 * ISBN 978-1-84653-067-8
 * Priced £7.99
 * Format Hardback 78 pages
 * Featured Doctor: The Tenth Doctor
 * Featured Companions: Donna Noble
 * Featured Enemies: The Ice Warriors

Publisher's summary

 * From the front cover:
 * Eight amazing new illustrated adventures for the Doctor and Donna! Featuring writers from the award-winning BBC One Series.


 * From the back cover:
 * Thilling Adventures in Time and Space!
 * Join the Doctor and Donna as the TARDIS travels to previously unseen times and places in this new collection of adventures, full of monsters, thrills and scares - and all lavishly illustrated in full colour! The time travellers face mythical beasts on a desert island in the company of Jason and the Argonauts, square up to a terrifying Ice Warrior in the wastes of the Arctic Circle, battle the cute-but-deadly denizens of a theme park gone mad, get tangled up in the mystery of the Bayeaux Tapestry, and try to prevent an entire planet from being kidnapped!

Features

 * None

Comic strip story

 * The Immortal Emperor by Jonathan Morris
 * Art by Rob Davis and colours with Gerraint Ford

Text stories

 * Hello Children, Everywhere by Paul Magrs
 * Illustrations by Brian Williamson


 * Grand Theft Planet! by James Moran
 * Illustrations by Daryl Joyce


 * Cold by Mark Gatiss
 * Illustrations by Ben Willsher


 * Bing Bong by Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman
 * Illustrations by Daniel McDaid


 * Island of the Sirens by Keith Temple
 * Illustrations by Adrian Salmon


 * Hold Your Horses by Nicholas Pegg
 * Illustrations by Jon Haward Colours by Nigel Dobbyn


 * The Puplet by Gary Russell
 * Illustrated by Rob Davis

Additional features

 * A Letter from the Doctor forwarded by Steven Moffat

Accredited credits

 * Editor: Clayton Hickman
 * Designer: Clayton Hickman
 * Front cover painting by Alister Pearson
 * Frontispiece pencils and inks by David A. Roach Colours by James Offredi
 * Contents page illustration: Ben Willsher
 * With thanks to: Russell T Davies, David Tennant and Catherine Tate, Gary Russell, Edward Russell, Peri Godbold, Tom Spilsbury, Scott Gray, Stuart Manning, Peter Ware, Richard Atkinson, David Turbitt and BBC Worldwide

Additional notes

 * The Doctor Who Storybook 2008 followed the same successful format as in recent years.
 * So as not to make the Storybook any less "official" than the BBC's offering, the Storybook was allowed to use the BBC logo on the cover and a box stating "Published with permission of the BBC" was found on the back.
 * The introduction, by way of "A letter from the Doctor" is a direct lift from the first and very early issues of Doctor Who Weekly (as Doctor Who Magazine was formerly known as), even down to the Doctor's signature at the end. This time around the letter was as forwarded to the publisher by Steven Moffat the newest showrunner of the TV series.
 * The Storybook was issued with a dustcover that inside the front flap had a short piece updating "The Changing Face of Doctor Who", and in the back flap a short piece on each of the featured writers accompanied by a small photo.