Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright

Name: William Joseph
Price range: $

by Chris Riddell

Interest age: 7 to 12
Reading age: 8+

Published by Macmillan Children’s Books, 2015

Adventure
Funny

About this book

The intimidatingly aristocratic Lord Goth invites writers and their pooches for a literary dog show at Ghastly-Gorm Hall. His daughter Ada is delighted to meet Sir Walter Splott, Plain Austen and her Blue Bloodhound, Emma, William Timepiece Thackeray and Georgie Eliot, with her Old Middlemarch sheepdog, Flossie.

But Ada has a mystery to solve - unexplained and terrifying howls in the night, the mysterious tracks of a huge beast, chewed shoes and stolen hams.

Ably assisted by dog show judges Hands Christmas Andersen and Countess Pippi Shortstocking, several young friends and three monkeys, Ada proves herself to be a brave, determined detective.

Literary allusions and comical pranks abound in this high-speed adventure, penned and illustrated by the children's laureate, Chris Riddell.

About the author

Chris Riddell is an award-winning illustrator and acclaimed political cartoonist. He is currently the only artist to have won the Kate Greenaway Medal three times, most recently for his illustrations in Neil Gaiman's The Sleeper and the Spindle. He was recently announced as a BookTrust ambassador.

Chris Riddell has illustrated the work of many celebrated children's authors, including five Neil Gaiman titles and J. K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard. He is the author of the bestselling Goth Girl and Ottoline series and co-creator of the much loved The Edge Chronicles.

He was the Waterstones Children's Laureate from 2015 to 2017.