Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse

By Author / Illustrator

Chris Riddell

Genre

Adventure

Age range(s)

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

ISBN

9780230759800

Format

Hardback

Published

12-09-2013

Synopsis

Chris Riddell's Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse is the beautifully illustrated winner of the Costa Children's Book Award.

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 they and Ada 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!

Reviews

Sam

Good book about ghost mice, monkeys, vampires, sirens, centaurs, talking goats and does mention werewolves, mummies, minotaurs and vampire pirates. Warning - this story is not scary