My VOYA review:A freshly orphaned toddler wanders into the safety of a graveyard in the dead of night, where he is adopted by two childless ghosts and named Nobody Owens. Nicknamed Bod, he is given the freedom of the graveyard, where he grows and thrives under the care of the ghostly inhabitants and his guardian, Silas. But danger awaits Bod, as his family’s killer, the man Jack, relentlessly searches for Bod in order to complete his assignment to murder the toddler. Volume 1 of a planned two-volume set covers chapters 1-5 and the interlude from Gaiman’s original 2008 Newberry Medal-winning title of the same name (HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2008/VOYA August 2008). Each chapter features a different artist in an interesting and effective way into a full-color graphic novel. The novel’s scenes of violence are front and center in opening pages of the graphic novel, leaving little to the reader’s imagination as to how Bod’s entire family dies. In a lovely touch, unique to comic adaption, the living characters are clearly depicted in a variety of different ethnicities, most notably Bod’s friend Scarlett Perkins as a biracial child. While most libraries will already have a copies of Gaiman’s original title, the graphic novel captures and enhances the magic and horror in new and unexpected ways. Libraries will want to offer both the original prose and the graphic novel to their patrons. This one is hard to rate because I love love love the original so much - especially the audio. 3? 3.5? 4? So the graphic novel didn't really add anything to the experience for me, but the illustrations are very nice, with different artists taking on some of the chapters. The only things I didn't like we're seeing what The Man Jack looked like at the beginning and the representation of Silas. I did, however, like the ghoul gate chapter and Ghulheim. It was depicted a lot like how I saw it I my head. And I liked seeing the tomb with the sleer too. I'll definitely read volume two to see how the rest of the story is represented.
Do You like book The Graveyard Book: Volume 1 (2014)?
Good Gaiman. Opens pretty bleak for a children's book though.
—PaulaW
It was a really good bookbut confusing at times
—bucky376731
