A review by meganwintrip
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
5.0
A toddlers parents and older sister get murdered by "The man Jack". He tends to kill the toddler but he nowhere to be seen. The small toddler wanders up the hill to a graveyard and the ghosts and spirits of the graveyard wonder what to do with him. Suddenly the locked gates to the graveyard start to rattle; it's the man Jack. He has come for the toddler. Suddenly the spirit of a woman turns up and begs the ghosts to look after her son and protect him. The ghosts realise who the toddler needs protection from and Mistress Owens' motherly instincts come out and asks Mr Owens if he will be the boy's father. He agrees and they keep the boy safe. That night there was a meeting to keep the boy safe in the graveyard. It was agreed that he will have "Freedom of the Graveyard". The Owens' name him Nobody "Bod" Owens.
Bod has a guardian called Silas; Silas leaves to go and do some research that he cannot do at the graveyard. This upsets Bod very much. Silas organises a teacher called Miss Lupescu to come and teach him things he need to know about the dead. Alongside Miss Lupescu, Bod has many other teachers who teach him normal things like history, reading and writing, but also things for the dead such as fading, dreamwalking and many other ways of the dead.
Later on Bod befriends Liza who is a witch and was drowned and burned to death. Liza helps Bod when he gets in trouble and helps keep him safe and gets help when she cannot protect him.
When Bod is 14 Silas sits him down and shares the story of where Bod came from, how his family were murdered and how the Owenses took him in as his own. He find out about The Man Jack. Shortly after Silas leaves again for a while to do more research. While Silas is gone The Man Jack and his other friends also called Jack track down Bod to end his life. All of the years of learning the ways of the dead help to defeat the Jack's and their order "The Jack of all Trades".
Such a fantastic book, Neil Gaiman hit it out if the park yet again! A fabulous 5 stars from me!
Bod has a guardian called Silas; Silas leaves to go and do some research that he cannot do at the graveyard. This upsets Bod very much. Silas organises a teacher called Miss Lupescu to come and teach him things he need to know about the dead. Alongside Miss Lupescu, Bod has many other teachers who teach him normal things like history, reading and writing, but also things for the dead such as fading, dreamwalking and many other ways of the dead.
Later on Bod befriends Liza who is a witch and was drowned and burned to death. Liza helps Bod when he gets in trouble and helps keep him safe and gets help when she cannot protect him.
When Bod is 14 Silas sits him down and shares the story of where Bod came from, how his family were murdered and how the Owenses took him in as his own. He find out about The Man Jack. Shortly after Silas leaves again for a while to do more research. While Silas is gone The Man Jack and his other friends also called Jack track down Bod to end his life. All of the years of learning the ways of the dead help to defeat the Jack's and their order "The Jack of all Trades".
Such a fantastic book, Neil Gaiman hit it out if the park yet again! A fabulous 5 stars from me!