It's just been announced that Chris Riddell's 'Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse' has won the Costa Children's Book Award. The Costa judges called it 'wonderful, delightful, charming and inventive'.
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. 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.
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