Hi everybody!!!! So my next post is on The Graveyard Book. It was a really good book, and even though I found myself getting lost in the beginning, everything seemed to tie together by the end. I found myself getting confused, and sometimes, because of this, I would get bored. But by the end, it was really really really good! One thing that really caught my eye was that there are picture in the book!! And have you all seen and/or heard of the movie Coraline??? Well, Neil Gaiman wrote that book!! So here we go....
The story starts with a family of four sleeping in their home during the night. Everything seems perfectly fine until the man Jack enters the scene. He has come to kill the family with his knife. He manages to kill the parents and a young girl, and all he has left is the baby. When he gets to the crib, the baby is gone!
The child had crawled out of bed and made his way to the graveyard close by. Mister and Mistress Owens, two ghosts, find the baby, and they raise him. Silas, who neither is a part of the living or the dead, becomes his guardian.
The problem is that this baby needs to live in the graveyard among the dead, otherwise the man Jack will surely kill him. But first, he requires the Freedom of the Graveyard to live with the ghosts. And fortunately, he is granted it.
Years go by, and the man Jack still has not found him, but danger has come young child's way as he grows up in the graveyard. He has met the Sleer, the Indigo Man, a witch named Liza Hempstock, and even made his way on occasion into the world of the living. If he keeps this up, the man Jack will find him.
And who really is Mr. Frost???
Enjoy the book!!!
Rattle his bones
Over the stones
It's only a pauper
Who nobody owns
~Traditional Nursery Rhyme
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