Tuesday, January 18, 2011
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
Marge recommended this Neil Gaiman title, at this fall's workshop on reading materials especially for boys. It's a quite quirky coming of age/fantasy story, in that the main character, (a boy of course) is raised by some friendly ghosts in the town graveyard after his family is murdered. Gaiman is a talented writer, and the text is enhanced throughout with black and white drawings. Plenty of ghouls and goblins to enliven the usual lessons of growing up; of course the family's murderer is thwarted in the end. 307 pages.
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I just finished the audiobook version of this. Gaiman's reading was good, and the audio version was a great experience, but i want to see the drawings - i'll have to track down a print copy!
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