This 10th Anniversary Edition of a John Newbery Medal award winner is sure to delight a whole new generation of children. Nobody “Bod" Owens isn't like other kids—probably due in part to the fact that he lives in a graveyard and is raised by its inhabitants. This quirky novel is full of symbolism and examines the themes of life and death, good and bad, in a grippingly exciting, age appropriate way. This edition includes a foreword, sketches, handwritten drafts, and the author's Newbery acceptance speech. 312 pages, pb.
The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal.
Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place"he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings"such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him.
Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead?
The Graveyard Book is the winner of the Newbery Medal, the Carnegie Medal, the Hugo Award for best novel, the Locus Award for Young Adult novel, the American Bookseller Association's "Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book," a Horn Book Honor, and Audio Book of the Year. Medal, New York Public Library's "One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing" New York Public Library Stuff for the Teen Age, Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book, Hugo Award, Horn Book Fanfare, Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (Vermont), Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book, ALA Notable Children's Book, ALA Booklist Editors' Choice, ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults.
This is a great book- excited for my 4th grader to read it!