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Chris Riddell, the 2015–2017 UK Children's Laureate, is an accomplished artist and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He has enjoyed great acclaim for his books for children. His books have won a number of major prizes, including the 2001, 2004 and 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse won the Costa Children's Book Award 2013. His work for Macmillan also includes the bestselling Ottoline books, The Emperor of Absurdia, and, with Paul Stewart, the Muddle Earth books, the Scavenger series and the Blobheads series. Chris has been honoured with an OBE in recognition of his illustration and charity work. He lives in Brighton with his family.The third beautifully illustrated book in the series, Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death is a funny, spooky adventure from the Costa Award-winning author of the Ottoline books, Chris Riddell.
People are flocking to Ghastly-Gorm Hall from far and wide to compete in Lord Goth's literary dog show. The esteemed judges are in place and the contestants are all ready to win. Sir Walter Splott is preparing his Lanarkshire Lurcher, Plain Austen is preening her Hampshire Blue Bloodhound and Homily Dickinson and her Yankee Doodle Poodle are raring to go.
But there's something strange going on at Ghastly-Gorm – mysterious footprints, howls in the night and some suspiciously chewed shoes. With their new friends the Vicarage sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne – can Ada and the Attic Club work out what's going on before the next full moon?
Though they can be enjoyed in any order, continue this deliciously dark series with Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony.
A deliciously dark mystery series by Chris Riddell, Costa Children’s Book Award-winner and 2015–2017 Children’s Laureate, each packed with beautiful illustrations and including a full-colour collectable mini book.
In Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse we meet Ada Goth, the only child of Lord Goth. The two live together in the enormous Ghastly-Gorm Hall, where Ada begins to unravel a dastardly plot involving a ghostly mouse called Ishmael.
Everyone appears to have forgotten Ada’s birthday in Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death, and there are even more strange goings-on in Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright: mysterious footprints, howls in the night and some suspiciously chewed shoes. In book four, Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony, Lord Goth is throwing a music festival, but Ada must make sure everything goes to plan.
‘A cracking combination of rollicking mystery adventure and ghost story, beautifully illustrated and written’ Daily Mail