Bod is then tricked by the Ghouls, a race of corpse-eating creatures that live in an alternate dimension accessed by a special grave called a Ghoulgate. She brings Bod home-made food and tutors him, as Bod grows a distaste for Miss Lupescu's strictness and unique cooking. Silas temporarily leaves the graveyard 'to obtain some information', and Miss Lupescu arrives to take care of six-year-old Bod in his absence. Shortly afterwards, the family moves to Scotland. Scarlett's parents believe she has gone missing during this adventure. The Sleer initially attempts to scare the two away with a ghostly projection, but Bod sees through the ruse and the Sleer relents. It is with her that Bod discovers a creature called the Sleer, who has been waiting for thousands of years within a prehistoric barrow for his "Master" to come and reclaim him along with the treasures he guards (a knife, a goblet, and brooch respectively). The man Jack is persuaded by Silas that the toddler isn't there, and leaves.Īs a young child, Nobody (often called Bod) begins learning to read and write, and befriends a girl called Scarlett Perkins, whose parents regularly bring her to play in the graveyard. The caretaker Silas (subsequently implied to be an ancient and formerly evil vampire, now reformed) agrees to act as Nobody's 'guardian', providing for and protecting him. Owens declares "He looks like nobody except himself") and is granted the Freedom of the Graveyard, which allows Nobody to pass through solid objects when in the graveyard, including its gates. The baby is named Nobody Owens (since Mrs. Owens (the ghost who first discovered the baby) and her husband, Mr. His mother, as a ghost, asks them to protect the child, and they argue about whether to do this until the Lady on the Grey (implied to be the Angel of Death) appears and states "The dead should have charity". The child crawls out of the house and up a hill to a graveyard where ghosts find him. Unknown to him, the toddler has climbed out of his crib to explore. The story begins as the man Jack murders three members of a family (later revealed to be the Dorian family), but fails to kill the youngest child, a one-and-a-half-year-old boy. Throughout his adventures, Bod learns supernatural abilities such as Fading (allows him to turn invisible, but only if no one is paying attention to him), Haunting (which allows Bod to make people feel uneasy, though this ability can be amplified to terrify them), and Dreamwalking (going into others' dreams and controlling the dream, though he cannot cause physical harm). Some chapters have analogues to Rudyard Kipling's 1894 work for example, the chapter "The Hounds of God" parallels the story " Kaa's Hunting".
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Throughout his adventures, Bod learns supernatural abilities such as Fading (allows Bod to turn invisible, but only if no one is paying attention to him), Haunting (which allows Bod to make people feel uneasy, though this ability can be amplified to terrify them), and Dreamwalking (going into others' dreams and controlling the dream, though he cannot cause physical harm).Each of the eight chapters is a short story, each set two years after the preceding chapter. The bulk of the book is about the protagonist's adventures in and out of the graveyard in which he lives as he grows up.
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Recalling how comfortable his son looked there, Gaiman thought he "could write something a lot like The Jungle Book and set it in a graveyard." When he sat down to write, however, Gaiman decided he was "not yet a good enough writer" and came to the same conclusion as he revisited it every few years. Gaiman had the idea for the story in 1985, after seeing his then-two-year-old son Mike "pedaling his tricycle around a graveyard" near their home in East Grinstead, West Sussex. Time magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. It was the first time in the award's 30-year history that one book made both the author and illustrator shortlists. Ĭhris Riddell, who illustrated the British children's edition, made the Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist. The Graveyard Book also won the annual Hugo Award for Best Novel from the World Science Fiction Convention and Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book selected by Locus magazine subscribers. Gaiman won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Newbery Medal recognizing the year's best children's books, the first time both named the same work.
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The Graveyard Book traces the story of the boy Nobody "Bod" Owens who is adopted and reared by the supernatural occupants of a graveyard after his family is brutally murdered. The Graveyard Book is a young adult novel by the English author Neil Gaiman, simultaneously published in Britain and America in 2008.