A review by kumishona
Ghosthunters and the Incredibly Revolting Ghost by Cornelia Funke

5.0

I found and read this in the school library when I was little but didn’t even realize that it was by Cornelia Funke, whose Thief Lord I fell in love with when I got a bit older, and whose Inkworld series I’m still dying to read someday. This book was so much fun - language, illustrations, story, flippable animated little ghost on the corner of the pages and all. I love her <3 Our (tiny and shabby, yet resourceful) library was at times the perfect treasure trove. I would never have found Eva Ibbotson, Patricia Wrede, Gwyneth Rees, Sharon Creech, Jacqueline Wilson or Emily Rodda without it - authors that produced memorable, flawless, clever books that made me love reading as a child. Makes me wonder how a lot of the books I read now (talking to you, YA genre :P) don’t even come close to the quality of the ones I read as a child. Children’s books (especially the beautifully well-written ones by these authors!) have a different kind of engaging magic to them.