“Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright”, by Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell never fails to entertain. He is always firm in producing quality children’s books with superb Illustrations and stories that are well-rounded and above all else, interesting. There is no true originality in fiction, of course; all stories have been told before, after all. It is how you tell the story that matters. Riddell seems all too aware of this fact, as the characters surrounding the eponymous Goth Girl, in this installment of the series (there are two more books featuring the same character, all highly recommended) are thinly-disguised, famous writers that, I venture at guessing, Riddell idolizes. The true beauty of “Goth Girl” lies in the meticulous mouth-watering illustrations -Riddell is an illustrator first and foremost- and the writing comes a distant second, since the plot and advancement of any kind of action is slow and in the end, unimportant. One gets so caught up -and sometimes even lost- in trying to take in all the characters’ clever names an
