Christmas Ghost

Sage Cookson #6

by Sally Murphy, Celeste Hulme (Illustrator)

Sage and her parents fly to Perth for Christmas, ready to film a world-record attempty by Chef Myra to make the largest ever pavlova. But a ghostly presence threatens to interfere with Myra's plans.

63 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2017

About the author

Sally Murphy is an Australian author of over 30 children's books. She's also the slightly crazy mother of six beautiful kids. You'll find bits of her buried somewhere in every one of her books. She loves reading, writing, and speaking about reading and writing.

PEARL VERSES THE WORLD won the 2010 Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature as well as the 2010 Australian Speech Pathology Book of the Year Award for Best Book for Language Development. It was also an Honour Book in the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Awards.

TOPPLING won the children's book category of both the Queensland and Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, and was short-listed in the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Awards.

Reviews

[Sonya Bright]

I found a few of the books in this series on the shelf at the library and thought I'd give them a go.

There's so much marketability in this series: a girl who travels all over with her famous parents, a mystery to solve, reality TV-style cooking - and a recipe related to the book at the end.

The characters have food names (Sage Cookson and her father Basil?!), and it's all one big for-kids-who-cook adventure rolled into one.

I thought some of the editing was a little bit off, and I was a bit surprised by the first person, present tense approach, but I can see kids really getting into these.