The Graveyard Book

Hello peoples. Today I'm talking about one of my favorite books. Here it goes.

So quite a while ago I got a book called The Graveyard book by Neil Gaiman. I read it for the second time recently and it is a very good book for all ages. There are some books that can be very good but seem tiring to read but this book pulls you into a strange and very big world that you never get tired of. So the story starts with a man named...

Jack. For reasons not yet to be revealed this man has killed a baby boy's parents and sibling. However, this is not quite a normal boy and with the door still left open by the murderer the boy manages to toddle out into the night and slip through the tall gates of a graveyard. The man named Jack comes into the graveyard looking for him but one of the graveyard's supernatural residents slips the man named Jack's mind and Jack becomes convinced that the baby did not in fact, go into the graveyard but toddled down the opposite way and it must have been a fox he had seen. The little boy is taken up by the ghosts Mr. and Ms. Owens and gets the name Nobody, Bod for short, and earns the "freedom of the graveyard", the power lets people's eyes slip off him as if he was a ghost and he can go into graves, slides through mausoleum walls and talks to his only friends, the residents of the graveyard. This book is about the adventures in the graveyard of Nobody Owens.

I love the creepy supernatural things in this book and afterwards I read the graphic novel of Coraline, also by Neil Gaiman, and loved that as well. I highly encourage you to pick up The Graveyard Book.


By Ashton