Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse
Chris Riddell
Ages 6-82015 Nominee
The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal
2014 Winner
Costa Children's Book Award
2013 Nominee
National Book Awards Children's Book of the Year Award
Synopsis
Chris Riddell's Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse is the beautifully illustrated winner of the Costa Children's Book Award. Full of adventure and dark humour, it's perfect for all young Goths!
Ada Goth is the only child of Lord Goth. The two live together in the enormous Ghastly-Gorm Hall. Lord Goth believes that children should be heard and not seen, so Ada has to wear large clumpy boots so that he can always hear her coming. This makes it hard for her to make friends and, if she's honest, she's rather lonely.
Then one day William and Emily Cabbage come to stay at the house and, together with a ghostly mouse called Ishmael, the three children begin to unravel a dastardly plot that Maltravers, the mysterious indoor gamekeeper, is hatching. Ada and her friends must work together to foil Maltravers before it's too late!
Continue this deliciously dark series with Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death and Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright.
This solo venture is a cracking combination of rollicking mystery adventure and ghost story, beautifully illustrated and written with an outright humour aimed at children and a sly, literary wit aimed at parents reading aloudDaily Mail
Quirky, clever and (as ever) marvellously detailed to the eyeIndependent
A deliciously dark offering from the award winning author illustrator of OttolineBookseller’s Buyers Guide