Graveyard Book

No cover

Graveyard Book (Paperback, english language, 2015, Harper)

Paperback, 289 pages

english language

Published Oct. 7, 2015 by Harper.

5 stars (1 review)

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts.

There are dangers and adverntures for Bod in the graveyard. But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives, and he has already killed Bod's family.

A deliciously dark masterwork by beststelling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by two-time Kate Greenaway Medal winnder and acclaimed artist Chris Riddell.

5 editions

Just wonderful

5 stars

What a wonderful and lovely book again. Neil Gaiman really knows how to create an absorbing atmosphere and characters you grow on.

This is the story of Bod (short for Nobody) Owens who grows up on a graveyard and is adopted and raised by the ghosts living there. And the whole graveyard is caring so lovely for him. On top of that he recieves some of their ghostly traits, too, like being able to fade, see in the dark or walking through walls.

The first half of the book is more like a big build-up, in which Bod experiences some adventures, some of them funny and light hearted, some a little scary and some just odd (in an interesting way). The second half is where all the loose ends come together and peak in an awesome, big and exciting finale which contains aspects that you wouldn't have expected before. And …

Subjects

  • Children's fiction
  • Cemeteries, fiction
  • Orphans, fiction
  • Supernatural, fiction
  • Ghosts, fiction