The Great Ghost Rescue

With a beautiful cover illustration by Alex T. Smith, creator of the Claude series, The Great Ghost Rescue is a wonderfully spooky young fiction title from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea , Eva Ibbotson. ''Nobody knew what had gone wrong with Humphrey. Perhaps it was his ectoplasm . . .'' Humphrey the Horrible sounds scary, but he''s actually a very friendly skeleton, with twinkling eye sockets and jangling finger bones. Humphrey dreams of being ghastly, like his brother - a screaming skull - or terrifying, like his bloodsucking vampire-bat cousins. But when Humphrey discovers an evil plot to exorcise his family, he finally realizes you don''t have to be spine-chillingly fearsome to be a hero.

About the author

Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, but when the Nazis came to power her family fled to England and she was sent to boarding school. She became a writer while bringing up her four children, and her bestselling novels have been published around the world. Journey to the River Sea won the Nestlé Gold Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Some of her other young fiction titles include The Secret of Platform 13, Which Witch? and The Great Ghost Rescue. Eva died peacefully in October 2010 at the age of eighty-five.

Product details

• Authors: Eva Ibbotson, Ibbotson Eva
• Assisted by: Alex T. Smith (Illustration), Smith Alex T. (Illustration), Alex T. Smith (Illustration)
• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.09.2015
• EAN: 9781447265665
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-6566-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Hallowe’en, Ghost Stories, Witches & ghosts (Children's / Teenage), Humorous stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, Humorous Stories, Hallowe?en, Holidays & Celebrations / Halloween