The Graveyard Book
by
Neil Gaiman
Illustrated by Chris Riddell
After his family are killed, Bod is brought up in a graveyard by ghosts – an array of century-spanning characters who care for him, impart wisdom and even teach body-fading skills.
Bod sometimes goes beyond the graveyard into the world of the living – and here
his life is under threat from the sinister man Jack, who has pursued him since he was a baby.
Gaiman offers a wonderful story of life, death and coming-of-age in this book, with a brilliantly engaging hero in Bod. This fabulously original story is conjured through humour, surprise and an ability to combine the poetic, the resonant and the gruesome. Chris Riddell’s illustrations confirm the delicious sense of unsettling people and
presences that run throughout.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
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Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.
Gaiman's writing has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker, as well as the 2009 Newbery Medal and 2010 CILIP Carnegie Medal for The Graveyard Book. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work.
http://www.neilgaiman.co.uk/index.php
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Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell is familiar to both children and adults for his distinctive line drawings with their clever caricature, fascinating detail and often enchanting fantasy elements.
He studied illustration at Brighton Polytechnic and has illustrated several picture books including Something Else by Kathryn Cave which was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize and which won the Unesco Award. The Swan's Stories by Brian Alderson was shortlisted for the 1997 Kurt Maschler Award and Castle Diary was shortlisted for the 1999 Kate Greenaway Medal. Pirate Diary won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2002 and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver won the 2004 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal.
Chris' popularity extends to the young teenage market with his collaboration with Paul Stewart on the best selling Edge Chronicles series, the ninth of which will be published later this year. For slightly younger children his Fergus Crane adventure series, again written by Paul Stewart, has achieved critical success with Fergus Crane winning the Smarties Gold Award and Corby Flood winning the Smarties Silver Award. An extraordinary achievement which cements Chris Riddell's position as one of the top illustrators working today.
In addition to his children's book work, Chris is a renowned political cartoonist whose work appears regularly in The Observer, The Literary Review and The New Statesman. One of his claims to fame is that he was the first cartoonist to depict William Hague in shorts; an illustration that William Hague subsequently bought!
http://chrisriddell.panmacmillan.com/
Chris Riddell
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