Neil Gaiman
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Point Of Books The Graveyard Book
| Title | : | The Graveyard Book |
| Author | : | Neil Gaiman |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 307 pages |
| Published | : | September 30th 2008 by HarperCollins |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Adventure. Young Adult. Urban Fantasy |
Description To Books The Graveyard Book
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead.There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.
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 bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean.
List Books Supposing The Graveyard Book
| Original Title: | The Graveyard Book |
| ISBN: | 0060530928 (ISBN13: 9780060530921) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060530921/the-graveyard-book/ |
| Characters: | Nobody Owens, the man Jack, Silas, Mr. Owens, Mrs. Owens, Miss Lupescu, Scarlett Perkins, The Sleer, Liza Hempstock |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award for Best Novel (2009), Newbery Medal (2009), Locus Award for Best Young Adult Novel (2009), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2009), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (2009) Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year (2009), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2010), Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award Nominee (2009), Indies Choice Book Award for Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book (Fiction): (2009), Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Nominee (2009), British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2009), Cybils Award for Middle Grade Fantasy & Science Fiction (2008), Carnegie Medal (2010), Elizabeth Burr / Worzalla Award (2009), Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas for Mejor novela extranjera independiente (2009), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2013) |
Rating Of Books The Graveyard Book
Ratings: 4.13 From 414811 Users | 29923 ReviewsCrit Of Books The Graveyard Book
This is my third Gaiman novel. It's a spectacular masterpiece that delightfully blends the macabre with the grave (no pun intended) and the whimsical creating a haunting, mesmerizing allegorical tale about the ephemeral joys of childhood, the gradual transition to adulthood, and the philosophical dichotomy of life and death. "It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard." The Graveyard (a nature reserve), Old Town, England ThreeThe Graveyard Book is my 3rd Gaiman so I can now say I am a fan. I even follow him on Facebook, the only author that has this privilege. I was a bit skeptical before I started because I wasnt sure he can pull of a childrens novel set in a graveyard without scaring the shit out of the little ones. I shouldnt have worried. The book managed to be light and fun despite its beginning. A family is murdered by a strange man named Jack and the only survivor, a 1 year old toddler, runs away in a
When a family is murdered by a mysterious killer, one of the intended victims is missing, a young, diapered boy, who had wandered off just before the crime took place. But the killer needed to complete the job. Fortunately for the boy, he was taken in by the late residents of a nearby graveyard. And when the spirit of his newly deceased mother asks for their help, the residents agree to raise her son. He is given to the care of the Owens couple and named Nobody, Bod for short, as he looks like
**SPOILER ALERT**This book was entirely mediocre. The plot was disjointed and very loosely woven throughout the story, and much of it didn't make any sense. Details (what few details there were) seemed to be added at the last minute to make later events in the story make sense. It's almost as if Gaiman wrote the middle first, then the beginning, and then the end. I think he had a million ideas floating around in his head and had no idea how to connect them all, so he made up some stuff on the
The riproaring adventures of Huck Finn's wiser half-brother; Harry Potter's long lost second cousin. A Mowgli doppleganger, admittedly so.When Tim Burton died*, the void was taken up, wholly, by Mr. Gaiman. When will "The Graveyard Book" become a film? Cannot wait to watch singin'/dancin' ghosts, not the usual rerecycled shit from some Disney classic. Hey, it worked like a charm with "Coraline"!*career-wise & art-wise
This is how it usually goes with me and Neil Gaiman books:Scene: at the library.Picks up Stardust and reads back flap... thinks, "hey, this looks like a great book. What an interesting idea for a story..." When actually reading Stardust: bored.A couple months later. At the library.Picks up Neverwhere... thinks, "hmmm. This looks really interesting, but that's what I thought about Stardust. Well, maybe I'll give him one last chance." When actually reading Neverwhere: stupid last chances!!!So I
Recently, on a car trip with my little boy, I decided to try listening to an audiobook. In the past this hasn't been a success. He loves to be read to in person, both picture books and chapter books. But he not a fan of listening to books in the car. At best he's indifferent, but usually he just asks me to turn them off. Generally speaking, he'd prefer to listen to Macklemore's Thrift Shop, which he calls "The Sway Music." But he's four now, with a vocabulary that's diverse to the point of being
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