Annotation
The author of Coraline brings another dark fantasy to life. In an episodic novel depicting the education of the living Bod Owens among the dead, Gaiman summons the spirit of Rudyard Kipling in this creepy yet somehow moving novel.
Illustrated in black and white by Dave McKean (artist of Coraline and The Sandman graphic novels).
Booktalk
What do we know about graveyards?
What goes on there? More than we think. Who lives there? More than just the dead. What do they see? Everything.
When he was just a baby, Nobody Owens's family was murdered by a mysterious man called Jack. Saved from being killed himself, Nobody was named and raised by the ghosts of the abandoned graveyard, who taught him to walk through walls, disappear, haunt dreams, and stay hidden from the world of the living.
The dead are not alone. There are ghouls and witches, werewolves and nightwalkers. The murderous man Jack is still out there, and still waiting to finish the job he started. And the man Jack is not alone.
What do we know about graveyards? Reading The Graveyard Book it's clear we don't know as much as we think.
Awards
2009 Newbery Award
2009 Hugo Award
2009 Locus Award - Best YA Novel
Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award and Locus Best Science Fiction Novel
Neil Gaiman reads from the first chapter of The Graveyard Book
(Image credits: Goshen Public Library, Subterranean Press)
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