The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)

from souloftherose

This is exactly the sort of book I'd have loved when I was a child and I still loved reading it now. I'm not sure what age range it would be most appropriate for though as the first chapter could certainly be quite scary. In the first chapter of this book, a young toddler's family are killed by a...

from DeltaQueen50

Where do I begin with the macabre delight that is The Graveyard Book? The first sentence leads you to believe you are about to embark on a dark and twisted adventure. But by the end of the first chapter you are realizing that once again Neil Gaiman's writing can't be pigeon-holed in any way. The ...

from elbakerone

This book is Neil Gaiman one hundred percent in his element as a master storyteller! The book tells the tale of a boy named Nobody Owens (Bod, for short) who is raised by a cemetery full of ghosts after his family is mysteriously murdered when he is only two years old. Inspired by Kipling's Jungl...

from MickyFine

When a toddler wanders into the graveyard, the ghosts that reside there are thrown into an uproar. How can they possibly care for a living child? But Mr. and Mrs. Owens are adamant that they will take in the baby, whom they name Nobody (Bod for short). And so Bod grows up in the graveyard learnin...

from timspalding

I wanted to like this and I did. But I'm too old and I don't read enough young adult fiction to enjoy the merely good, and despite winning the Newbery, that's all The Graveyard Book is. There were flashes of real brilliance-ghouls describing the pleasures of ghoulery comes to mind-but overall it ...