– Holly Black, cocreator of The Spiderwick Chronicles The Graveyard Book is endlessly inventive, masterfully told and, like Bod himself, too clever to fit into only one place.– Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler The Graveyard Book is another surprising and terrific book from Neil Gaiman. When he reaches the baby’s crib he finds a stuffed teddy bear in the boy’s place.
His final target is a baby boy whose room is at the top of the family home. My favorite thing about this book was watching Bod grow up in his fine crumbly graveyard with his dead and living friends. The Graveyard Book One night, a man called Jack murders a mother, a father, and a daughter.
It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Hamilton, author of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novels Bestselling author Neil Gaiman offers up a wonderful story of life, death and coming-of-age in this book, which won the Booktrust Teenage Prize. I want to see more of the adventures of Nobody Owens, and there is no higher praise for a book. After finishing The Graveyard Book, I had only one thought-I hope theres more. One might call this book a small jewel, but in fact its much bigger within than it looks from the outside. The Graveyard Book manages the remarkable feat of playing delightful jazz riffs on Kiplings classic Jungle Books. Steer readers who like being scared silly to another fiendishly horrifying series, Joseph Delaney's The Last Apprentice, starting with Book One: The Revenge of the Witch. I found it vexing that the book ended with still-unexplained details about Jack and Silas and Bod, but it appears that Gaiman is planning a sequel, so that's a relief. His audio CD recording of the book is well worth hearing, as this is a Newbery Medal winner kids will want to listen to more than once, though certainly never at bedtime. Gaiman, beloved by readers for his macabre fiction book Coraline, wondered what it would be like to write a book like Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, but set in a graveyard. You'll develop quite an affection for the long-dead inhabitants of this atmospheric English graveyard who look after Bod. As Silas says, "It will take a graveyard" to raise this child and keep him safe from the man Jack, who will be looking to finish his job. In the graveyard, the boy learns important lessons about Fading, Sliding, and Dreamwalking, and encounters shadowy murky characters like the tattooed Indigo Man, the Sleer, and a trio of raggedy ghouls. Silas is able to travel between the living world and the graveyard, and brings Bod the food and supplies a growing child needs. Despite the contemporary setting the inhabitants of the graveyard lived in different centuries and act accordingly. While reading the story it often feels like the story takes place somewhere in the past. At the start Bod is a toddler, and in the end he is a teenager. At the beginning of the story, Bod is a helpless baby that wanders into the graveyard by accident. In The Graveyard Book around 15 years elapse from the beginning to the end. Named Nobody Owens, or Bod for short, the boy is given the Freedom of the Graveyard, and taught by his mysterious guardian, Silas, who isn't dead, but doesn't seem to be quite alive, either. The Graveyard Book: Characters Nobody Owens (Bod) Bod is the main character of The Graveyard Book, and he is a curious boy that grows in knowledge and stature throughout the book. Mistress Owens and her husband, ghosts, both of them, dead 250 years now, discover the newly orphaned boy and they become his adoptive parents. Read more.The man Jack sets out to kill the whole family, especially the baby, barely a toddler, but the child wanders away in the night, ending up in the nearby graveyard. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the Graveyard Book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack-who has already killed Bod's family.Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audeince that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic Coraline. 
There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, bring raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.
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