The Graveyard Book: A Newbery Award Winner
The 10th anniversary edition of The Graveyard Book includes a foreword by Margaret Atwood as well as sketches from the illustrator, handwritten drafts, and Neil Gaiman’s Newbery acceptance speech.
IT TAKES A GRAVEYARD TO RAISE A CHILD.
Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod’s family.
The Graveyard Book, a modern classic, is the only work ever to win both the Newbery (US) and Carnegie (UK) medals.
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Readers say *The Graveyard Book* is a captivating, imaginative story that mixes eerie, dark humor with genuine warmth. Reviewers agree it features mem...
I would have given this one 4.5 stars out of 5, but alas, it is only a 5 star system. A near-perfectly written story that fits directly into the drive shaft of the fantasy/horror gears of the mind and takes you for a great ride. Truth-be-known, this is most likely targeted towards teens, but still being a kid at heart, it was a load of fun to read.
Read by the author (I got the audiobook), this is the story of Nobody (or "Bod"). His family are murdered when Bod is a toddler, and he manages to escape to the local graveyard.[return][return]The inhabitants bring up Bod as best as they can, considering they are a mixture of ghosts, ghouls and in one instance a vampire (the only one who can leave the graveyard). [return][return]Bod grows up, learns about the "real" people outside, especially girls, and that no matter how safe people think he is, there is always the theat from the people who killed his parents.....
Straightforwardly written & quite moving with characters to love-- just as I'd expected from Gaiman.[return]A perfect Halloween read for any young adult or adult.[return]I hope we see the main character, Bod, in more adventures and I hope the ghosts & other denizens of the graveyard help him along in his travels & tell us their tales as well.