by Chris Riddell · Pan Macmillan · tapa dura · ISBN 9780230759824
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«Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death» is the children's mystery and fantasy novel by Chris Riddell (Pan Macmillan, hardback, 224 pages, in English).
Ada Ghastly-Gorm returns as the garden party and a baking contest are being prepared. Famous cooks arrive at the event and Maltravers, the keeper, acts suspiciously. The maid Marylebone receives a marriage proposal, and Ada wants to find out what Maltravers is plotting, even though everyone seems to have forgotten her birthday.
Second instalment of the Goth Girl series, originally published in 2014. Includes black-and-white illustrations by Chris Riddell himself.
Recommended for young readers aged 8 to 11, especially fans of mystery and fantasy with humour.
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.
