
But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack-who has already killed Bod’s family…īeloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic Coraline.

There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being 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. Version: Audiobook (7h 47min listening length)Īfter the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own. A human toddler is adopted by a group of ghosts and they proceed to raise him in a graveyard? Sign me up!

When I read the synopsis for The Graveyard Book, I knew I had to read it.

This was my first time experiencing the pure excellence that is Neil Gaiman. I cannot believe I waited this long to read one of Neil Gaiman’s books! Yes, you read that right.
