The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
First edition
AuthorPenelope Lively
IllustratorAnthony Maitland
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's fantasy novel, supernatural fiction
PublisherHeinemann (UK)
E. P. Dutton (US)
Publication date
26 March 1973
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardcover & paperback)
Pages156 pp (first edition)
ISBN0-434-94894-2 (US)
OCLC673929
LC ClassPZ7.L7397 Gh[1]

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe is a low fantasy novel for children by Penelope Lively, first published by Heinemann in 1973 with illustrations by Anthony Maitland. Set in present-day Oxfordshire, it features a boy and his modern family who are new in their English village, and seem beset by a poltergeist. Soon the boy makes acquaintance with the eponymous Thomas Kempe, ghost of a 17th-century resident sorcerer who intends to stay.

Lively won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.[2][a]

  1. ^ "The ghost of Thomas Kempe" (US). Library of Congress Catalog Record.
    "The ghost of Thomas Kempe" (UK). LCC record. Retrieved 2012-09-08.
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