ISBN-13: 9780060530921
Grade: A+
Oh Neil Gaiman how I ♥ you! The Graveyard Book is simply fantastic. Coraline was creepy, but The Graveyard Book was a touching story about a boy whose family is murdered and he escaped to the graveyard. The residents of the graveyard agree to raise him and teach him, and name him Nobody Owens, Bod for short. There are some truly awesome characters, my favorite being the graveyard's witch. TGB talks about the different sections of the graveyard, and I loved reading about the unconsecrated section where the witch is buried. Bod's gift to Liza the witch was so sweet. Who knew that former President Truman is a ghoul as is Victor Hugo! I don't want to say too much so as not to spoil TGB for those who haven't yet read it. I will say that if you can read the last chapter and not be moved by Bod, Silas and Mrs. Owens, then you have no soul.
This is yet another book that will be added to the permanent library collection as well as get packed to take to a deserted island. The Graveyard Book is a must read, and has cemented me as a Neil Gaiman fan.
Probably worth mentioning that Neil Gaiman is also a fruit off of the strange-fruit tree. He's got good company in Francesca Lia Block and Tori Amos, who happens to be the inspiration for a talking tree in his book Stardust.
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