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The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel, Volume 1
by P. Craig Russell, Neil Gaiman
“The knife had a handle of polished black bone, and a blade finer and sharper than any razor. If it sliced you, you might not even know you had been cut, not immediately. The knife had done almost everything I was brought to that house to do, and both the bland and the handle were wet.”
A young boy’s family is murdered in the comfort of their beds in the thick of night. The boy is awakened by a noise and, in his mischievous state, decides to explore. He crawls down the stairs and out the open door, following the noise to the local graveyard – completely unaware that the murderer is in pursuit.
The opening line of the book plus the quick book talk (what I call my “shelf talk” since it has to be short and sweet when one is standing in library stacks with a tween who “wants something good to read”) tell you why I adore this story. Toss in that Nobody Owens gets to be raised by ghosts? What a fantastical, entertaining tale! Then, the addition of the illustrations in this graphic format? Just WOW! The wonderful artwork made a story I love even more endearing. Like the full print novel format, this is a book for all ages.
A young boy’s family is murdered in the comfort of their beds in the thick of night. The boy is awakened by a noise and, in his mischievous state, decides to explore. He crawls down the stairs and out the open door, following the noise to the local graveyard – completely unaware that the murderer is in pursuit.
The opening line of the book plus the quick book talk (what I call my “shelf talk” since it has to be short and sweet when one is standing in library stacks with a tween who “wants something good to read”) tell you why I adore this story. Toss in that Nobody Owens gets to be raised by ghosts? What a fantastical, entertaining tale! Then, the addition of the illustrations in this graphic format? Just WOW! The wonderful artwork made a story I love even more endearing. Like the full print novel format, this is a book for all ages.