The Graveyard Book

Hardcover, 312 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2008 by HarperCollins Pub..

ISBN:
978-0-06-053092-1
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OCLC Number:
179806700

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5 stars (2 reviews)

After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.

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Neil Gaiman brings humor to the cemetery

5 stars

The graveyard book is perfect for Halloween season as it tells of Bod Owens, whose circumstances bring him to live a privileged life, in a graveyard.

I love that Neil Gaiman doesn't talk down to his readers, even the young adults targeted here.

This book is full of humour, both macabre and what I'll say "regular, with Neil Gaiman's cheekiness", with phrases such as "that people are more important than Brussels sprouts" and many other funny moments in Bod's life.

In this fantasy novel, at the back of a crime, I interpret the tale as that of living as an outsider, only understood and accepted by other marginal people in society, represented here through Bod's friends. As the chapters progress, he grows up, and learns of the world around him, I'd also add a coming of age dimension to it.

The wording is deliberate, often changing phrasing to describe the …

Subjects

  • Dead -- Fiction
  • Supernatural -- Fiction
  • Cemeteries -- Fiction