by Chris Riddell · Pan Macmillan · tapa dura · ISBN 9780230759800
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«Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse» is Chris Riddell's children's fantasy novel, published by Pan Macmillan in hardcover (224 pages, in English).
Ada Goth lives with Lord Goth at Ghastly-Gorm Hall, a huge, haunted mansion. Lord Goth, her father, believes children should be seen and not heard, so Ada wears clumpy boots and has no friends. When William and Emily Cabbage arrive at the house, and with Ishmael, a ghost mouse, Ada begins to investigate the strange events.
First book in the Goth Girl series and winner of the Costa Book Award 2013 in the children's category. The cover cites Chris Riddell as Children's Laureate 2015-2017.
Recommended for readers aged 8 to 11 and for those seeking illustrated novels of mystery and gothic humor.
Chris Riddell is a South African-born English illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the Observer. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals – the British librarians' annual award for the best-illustrated children's book, and two of his works were commended runners-up, a distinction dropped after 2002.
