Pains are taken not to kill the villains, but one character is consumed by a giant snakelike creature. Someone is hit by a car, a man is poisoned and knocked out, and fights ensue with knives, strangling cords, and guns drawn, with injuries. He's also threatened by bullying kids and nearly arrested. It's mostly set in a graveyard, and most of the characters are benevolent ghosts. From then on, the story follows Bod growing up. The story begins with the murder of an entire family except a toddler named Bod, with little described beyond the knife used and where the bodies were in the house. The Graveyard Book is also available as two superb graphic novels released in 2014.

This is a review of the novel that has some black-and-white drawings by Dave McKean. Parents need to know that The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman won the Newbery Medal in 2009, the most coveted award in children's literature in the United States. Ghouls talk of plague pits being 'good eatin'.'ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. A discussion of suicide and others who dwell in the unconsecrated ground of the cemetery, including criminals who were hung. Lots of talk of how the inhabitants of the graveyard died. A witch tells the story of how she was drowned and burned and how the whole town caught the plague afterward. Talk of the death of someone close to Bod and more fighting amongst supernatural creatures. Bod is spanked by his ghost-father with the explanation that when the father was alive ages ago this kind of discipline was normal. Some scares past the ghoul-gate with howling creatures in pursuit and in a deep, dark grave where a creature threatens two young kids they decide not to be afraid and the tension dissipates. Pains are taken not to kill the villains, but one character is consumed by giant snakelike creature. Fights ensue with knives, strangling cords, and guns drawn and there are injuries. Someone is hit by a car, a man is poisoned and knocked out. He's also threatened by bullying kids at school and nearly arrested. Ghouls kidnap him and threaten to eat him. They die by stabbing, and Bod is under threat from this murderer for most of the story and hidden in a graveyard for safety. The story begins with the murder of Bod's whole family: parents and older sister.

The graveyard book by neil gaiman