The Graveyard Book

By Neil Gaiman; Dave McKean (Illustrator)
(Subterranean Press, Hardcover, 9781596062047)

Publication Date: October 2008

Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Large Print (April 2009), Paperback (October 2008), Hardcover (September 30, 2008), Library Binding (September 30, 2008), Compact Disc (September 30, 2008), Audio Cassette (January 2008), Compact Disc (January 2008)

Categories: Horror & Ghost Stories, Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Fall 2008 Kids' List

“A delightfully layered story of Nobody Owens, who is raised by the semi-living and the dead in a graveyard. Gaiman uses wit and his depth of knowledge of the arcane to create a safe and nurturing world for the young orphan to grow and thrive in. This will be a joy for all ages!”

-- Jane Jacobs, Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA

Description

Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their timely ghostly teachings-like the ability to Fade.

Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? And then there are things like ghouls that aren't really one thing or the other.

This chilling tale is Neil Gaiman's first full-length novel for middle-grade readers since the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed "Coraline," Like "Coraline," this book is sure to enchant and surprise young readers as well as Neil Gaiman's legion of adult fans.

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