The Great Ghost Rescue
by Eva Ibbotson

This is an another adorably silly book from the author of Which Witch?-a tale of light-hearted black humor, if you can imagine that. It begins with Humphrey the Horrible, who really isn't very horrible. Humphrey is a little boy ghost whose family haunts a moldering English castle, and his hag mother and "gliding kilt" father are a bit disappointed in their youngest son's lack of scariness.

But Humphrey becomes a hero, with the help of a living schoolboy named Rick Henderson, when a plague of modern development threatens to destroy the habitat of the ghosts of England. In a wacky sort of environmentalism, young Rick decides a ghost preserve is in order, and takes his case straight to the prime minister. But that solution almost happens too easily. No one is counting on the donor of the old ruins for the ghosts to live in, to be a nasty man with a nasty plan to destroy all the ghosts in England. But does the nasty man's plan take Humphrey and Rick into account?

Cute as the story is, certain occult-sensitive readers may like to be advised that a little bit of witchcraft appears in this book.

Robbie Fischer
Arizona USA

Recommended Age: 10+

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