We all knew the book was good. Heck, Coraline was fabulous so The Graveyard Book had to be just as enticing. Graveyards, bodies, and ghosts…
Neil Gaiman is the master of the new tween ghost story and is now also the winner of the Newbery award and has a new movie coming out in just a week. What a whirlwind.
From the ALA site:
A delicious mix of murder, fantasy, humor and human longing, the tale of Nobody Owens is told in magical, haunting prose. A child marked for death by an ancient league of assassins escapes into an abandoned graveyard, where …read more

“The boundaries are always there—between the graveyard and the world beyond, between life and death, and the crossing of them.” – Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman has, according to reviewers, done it again. Gaiman is known for his chilling tales, his ghostlike wonders, and his mysterious narrative. Like his infamous Coraline, which broke him into Young Adult Literature, The The Graveyard Book will manage to capture more young readers.
The book is magical, humorous, and attaches a bit to the history of Kipling’s The Jungle Book (Unabridged Classics).
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More short stories! This time, it’s a set of eleven stories brought to you by Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline, a New York Times bestseller and a movie.Gaiman says in his introduction that he is a huge fan of short stories. He cites authors like Saki, Harlan Ellison, John Collier and Ray Bradbury among his favorites. And yeah, it’s no coincidence that the title sounds like a Bradbury creation (a la R is for Rocket) – Gaiman called and asked him if he minded before he did it.You want creepy and magical? You got creepy and …read more