The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
Friday, July 24, 2009 6:39 PM /
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Inspired from Kipling's The Jungle Book, The Graveyard Book is set (uh..obviously) in a graveyard where young Nobody Owens is taken custody by ghosts when his family were silently murdered one misty night.
Strange as his name, Bod (short for Nobody) can walk the path between the living and the dead, seeing and talking to the invisible, learning lessons from dead historians, mastering the art of Fading and Dreamwalking, and exploring crypts and secret ghoul-gates unlike any kid his age dared go. He gets to explore the land beyond the living and meets more than the dead and the undead. Bod encountes many coloful and one-toned characters in a world of somber black and ghasly white: ghouls, The Lady on the Gey, a female werewolf, and more than three hundred ghosts which includes Caius Pompeius and the famous poet Nehemiah Trot. And there's also Liz the Witch who never forgets.This book is another latest addition on Gaiman's collection of bedtime tales for little ears. But adults might as well enjoy reading this ghost-friendly book!PS: it's not really THAT scary!Labels: book, children books, fantasy, feature, ghost, ken chua, neil gaiman, reading, review
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