“The invention of immortal folk who readers feel they might like to kick back with may be this prolific, tousle-haired, ex-pat British author’s contribution to world literature.” - National Public Radio “ The Graveyard Book feels like the careful work of an old craftsman.” - Newsday “Like a bite of dark Halloween chocolate, this novel proves rich, bittersweet and very satisfying.” - Washington Post In this novel of wonder, Neil Gaiman follows in the footsteps of long-ago storytellers, weaving a tale of unforgettable enchantment.” - New York Times Book Review “ The Graveyard Book, by turns exciting and witty, sinister and tender, shows Gaiman at the top of his form. a tale of unforgettable enchantment” ( New York Times Book Review). But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack-who has already killed Bod’s family.īy turns macabre, uplifting, sinister, and heartwarming, Neil Gaiman’s #1 national bestseller―winner of the Carnegie and Newbury Medals and the Hugo Award―is a “novel of wonder.

There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. He would have been 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.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, an ingenious and captivating reimagining of Rudyard Kipling’s adventure The Jungle Book that is a glorious meditation on love, loss, survival, sacrifice, and what it means to truly be alive―one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene Yee.

The sleer graveyard book