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The Graveyard Book is the second Neil Gaiman book I read. I liked it better than my first read, and I believe the full-cast audiobook bumped up the rating.
The plot's premise is interesting; I would give this book to more mature middle-grade children to read because some scenes are difficult to swallow.
The idea of naming our main character Nobody brings a little bit of the myth from the Odyssey on the island of the cyclopes, where Odysseus tells the blind Cyclopes his name is Nobody. So the J ...more
The plot's premise is interesting; I would give this book to more mature middle-grade children to read because some scenes are difficult to swallow.
The idea of naming our main character Nobody brings a little bit of the myth from the Odyssey on the island of the cyclopes, where Odysseus tells the blind Cyclopes his name is Nobody. So the J ...more
What a wonderful story to listen to! Especially as narrated by Neil Gaiman. He is the perfect voice for telling the story of Bod, the boy raised by the ghosts in the graveyard he wandered into as a baby after his family was killed in their house.
I enjoyed listening to the small details of how the ghosts decided to raise Bod, how to get him food and how to educate him. The graveyard is full of ghosts from all eras, including the time of Roman Empire occupation through somewhat present day. Bod e ...more
I enjoyed listening to the small details of how the ghosts decided to raise Bod, how to get him food and how to educate him. The graveyard is full of ghosts from all eras, including the time of Roman Empire occupation through somewhat present day. Bod e ...more
Fun book. Shame about the author.
I’d be a bit worried about handing it to a sensitive under-7 kid because of the murder in the first chapter.
I’d be a bit worried about handing it to a sensitive under-7 kid because of the murder in the first chapter.
Lexile 820L
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10.0
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10.0
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