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“Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear to become real.��

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 many adventures in the graveyard for a young boy, but if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in terrible danger, for the man Jack is looking for him��

Wonderfully creepy, mesmerizing and melancholic, with prose to die for. Each chapter is almost like a short story telling of some adventure that Bod gets up to while living in the graveyard. We get to watch as Bod learns and grows from the graveyard's inhabitants over the years.

It's a little bit ghostly and ghoulish, but mostly it's a sweet story about friendship and family, about growing up and learning to be brave enough to venture out into the world. This is my favourite kind of children's book, one that brings a bit of magic and mystery to the world and that can be enjoyed by anyone, no matter their age.

The final chapter had me in tears.

“There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.��