Ghosthunters and the incredibly revolting ghost / by Cornelia Funke ; [translated by Helena Ragg-Kirkby].

Title :

Ghosthunters and the incredibly revolting ghost

Author:

Funke, Cornelia Caroline.

Format:

Books

Summary:

A timid boy named Tom reluctantly agrees to help professional ghostbuster Hetty Hyssop dispel an IRG (Incredibly Revolting Ghost) from an old house.

Language:

English

Audience:

760 Lexile.

ISBN - ISSN:

0439849586

9780439849586

Physical Description:

135 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Contents:

A horrible day -- Teased and scorned! -- Hetty Hyssop -- Slimy trails in the dark -- A terrible story -- A serious problem -- The book of ghosts -- A wailing and gnashing of teeth -- A bucketful of graveyard dirt -- Nothing but trouble -- The haunted villa -- Chattering teeth and knocking knees -- The plan -- The ghost hunt -- Revenge.

Subject:

Ghosts -- Fiction.

Ghost stories.

Fiction.

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Nine-year-old Tom can't catch a break: He's a klutz, his sister Lola pretty much hates his guts, and--and this is a BIG "and"--he just found a ghost camping out in his cellar. Lucky for Tom his grandma's best friend just happens to be the world's foremost ghosthunter. Under her expert tutelage, Tom learns the tools of the trade--which just happen to include buckets of graveyard dirt--and soon finds he has to face down not just the Averagely Spooky Ghost (ASG) in his basement but the Incredibly Revolting Ghost (IRG) in town. All while keeping the nettlesome Lola off his trail....

Author Notes

Author Cornelia Maria Funke was born in Dorsten, Germany on December 10, 1958. After graduating from the University of Hamburg, she worked as a social worker for three years. After completing a course in book illustration at the Hamburg State College of Design, she worked as a children's book illustrator and designed board games.

Her desire to draw magical worlds and her disappointment over the way some stories were written inspired her to write her own children's books. Her book, The Thief Lord, won the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the best translated children's book of the year and the Book Sense Book of the Year Award. She has also received the Book Sense Children's Literature Award for Inkheart and Inkspell.

Funke has written numerous books including Dragon Rider, When Santa Fell to Earth, Igraine The Brave, Reckless, Saving Mississippi, Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath, Igraine the Brave, and The Princess Knight. Inkheart was adapted into a film. Cornelia Funke was voted into the Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of 2005.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (3)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 2-4-Something wicked is in the cellar, and it's up to nine-year-old Tom to eradicate it in Cornelia Funke's light-hearted thriller (Chicken House, pap. 2006). Cellar dweller Hugo turns out to be an ASG (Averagely Spooky Ghost), blown out of his villa and into Tom's cellar by an IRG (Incredibly Revolting Ghost). Hugo and Tom join forces with ghost hunter Heady Hyssop to expel the IRG from Hugo's villa. Along the way they meet the cookie-baking Mr. Lovely, who provides the solution to a provoking problem. The trio's exploits are related through John Beach's warm narration. He's a master of Hugo's wobbly whooooing and the IRG's harrumphing vibrato. In spite of the IRG's penchant for removing his head at key moments, children won't be unduly frightened by this tale.-Erin B. Allen, Rowan Public Library, Salisbury, NC (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.

Publisher's Weekly Review

Funke reaches out to newly independent readers with this first-in-a-series installment about beleaguered nine-year-old Tom, who bests his nasty older sister, Lola, by honing his ghosthunting skills. Sent to the cellar for orange juice, Tom, a 'fraidy cat, encounters an ASG, (Averagely Spooky Ghost), who nearly scares him out of his skin. No one in his family believes him except his sympathetic grandmother who "listened to him without constantly frowning unlike his parents." Grandma also has a friend, Hetty Hyssop, who specializes in spectral exorcisms. Turns out that the ASG is being bullied himself, cast out of his familiar haunt by the IRG of the title. Tom and Hetty conspire to put things right and give Lola her due, too. The story is not really funny enough to appeal to kids who want humor, and not scary enough to raise goosebumps; the text tends to rely on exclamation points to inject excitement. Funke's half-tone illustrations add appeal for readers just getting the hang of chapter books but, overall, this is a somewhat pedestrian offering from the talented creator of Inkheart and The Thief Lord. Ages 7-10. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Horn Book Review

Young Tom teams up with his grandmother's sprightly ghost-hunting friend, Hetty, and an ""Averagely Spooky Ghost"" named Hugo to fight each of the titular baddies. The stories are formulaic but lively, and the interspersed caricature-ish illustrations and humor-leavened spookiness make these excellent Halloween reads (or read-alouds) for those not up to truly scary fare. A ghost protection manual is included. [Review covers these titles: Ghosthunters and the Gruesome Invincible Lightning Ghost and Ghosthunters and the Incredibly Revolting Ghost.] (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.