The graveyard book / Neil Gaiman ; with illustrations by Dave McKean

By:

Gaiman, Neil

Contributor(s):

McKean, Dave [illustrator]

Material type: Text

TextEdition: First paperback editionDescription: 313, 12 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:

9780060530945 (pbk.)
0060530944 (pbk.)
0061709123
9780061709128

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DDC classification:

823 22 G G

Contents:

How Nobody came to the graveyard -- The new friend -- The hounds of God -- The witch's headstone -- Danse Macabre -- Interlude: The convocation -- Nobody Owens' school days -- Every man Jack -- Leavings and partings

Summary: Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack--who has already killed Bod's family

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Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, c2008

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Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack--who has already killed Bod's family

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