The Horn Book Guide

INTERMEDIATE FICTION

Mould, Chris

The Icy Hand

174 pp. | Roaring Brook | September, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59643-385-4 $9.95

(2) 4-6 Something Wickedly Weird series. Eleven-year-old Stanley Buggles learns that strange things are afoot at Crampton Rock. In Mile, conniving pirates convince him to kill a werewolf. In Hand, he meets the headless ghost of his great-uncle. Mould's a witty writer with a deft hand for curious, wry details, also played up in stark pen-and-ink illustrations that manage to be both grim and funny. Review covers these Something Wickedly Weird titles: The Icy Hand and The Wooden Mile.

Reviewer: Tanya D. Auger | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2008