Title: The Graveyard Book

Title: The Graveyard Book Title Record # 872030
Author: Neil Gaiman
Date: 2008-09-00
Type: NOVEL [juvenile]
Series: Bod Owens
Webpages: harpercollins.com, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: When an assassin kills his entire family, a little boy is spared — he wandered out of the house (as only a toddler can do) and into a local graveyard. Adopted and raised by the ghosts, Bod's guardian a vampire. But the man with the knife is still out there.

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Other Titles

Translations

Year	Language	Title
2009^ⓘTranslated by Reinhard Tiffert.	German	Das Graveyard-Buch
2009^ⓘTranslated by Valérie Le Plouhinec	French	L'étrange vie de Nobody Owens^?L'etrange vie de Nobody Owens
2009^ⓘTranslated by Emmy van Beest	Dutch	Het Kerkhof
2010^ⓘTranslated by Pék Zoltán	Hungarian	A temető könyve^?A temeto konyve A temetooe koenyve
2010^ⓘTranslated by Ryta Vinagre	Portuguese	O livro do cemitério^?O livro do cemiterio
2011^ⓘTranslated by Διονυσία Μαρίνου (Dionysía Marínou)	Greek	Το Βιβλίο του Νεκροταφείου^?To Vivlío tou Nekrotafeíou
2020^ⓘTranslated by ลมตะวัน.	Thai	ผจญภัยในสุสาน^?Phačhonphai nai susān

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Win	2009 Newbery	Newbery Medal
1	2009 Locus	Best Young Adult Book
1	2009 Hugo	Best Novel
Nomination	2009 World Fantasy	Best Novel
Nomination	2009 Mythopoeic	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
Nomination	2009 BFA	August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel)
Win	2010 Carnegie	Carnegie Medal
Nomination ^ⓘThe awards were presented twice in 2010. This nomination is from the first set and is for the eligibility period of July 2008 to June 2009. This category was split into two categories beginning with the second presentation in 2010. (as L'étrange vie de Nobody Owens^?L'etrange vie de Nobody Owens )	2010 Imaginaire	Roman jeunesse

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Graveyard Book	2008-09-00	Neil Gaiman	HarperAudio	978-0-06-170739-1	$18.99^?$: US dollar		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	2008-10-00	Neil Gaiman	HarperCollins	978-0-06-053092-1	$17.99^?$: US dollar	312	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	2008-10-00	Neil Gaiman	Harper Children's Audio	978-0-06-155189-5	$22.95^?$: US dollar		audio CD^?Compact disc with standard audio tracks	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	2008-10-00	Neil Gaiman	HarperCollins	978-0-06-053093-8	$18.89^?$: US dollar	312	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	2008-10-00	Neil Gaiman	Bloomsbury	978-0-7475-9684-4	£30.00^?£: UK pound	[x]+ 312	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	2008-10-00	Neil Gaiman	Bloomsbury	978-0-7475-9683-7	£14.99^?£: UK pound	288	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	2008-10-00	Neil Gaiman	Bloomsbury	978-0-7475-9884-8	£6.99^?£: UK pound	288	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Chris Riddell
The Graveyard Book	2008-10-00	Neil Gaiman	Bloomsbury	978-0-7475-9883-1	£^?£: UK pound	288	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	2008-10-20	Neil Gaiman	Bloomsbury	978-0-7475-6901-5	£12.99^?£: UK pound	288+ [10]	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Chris Riddell
The Graveyard Book	2008-11-00	Neil Gaiman	HarperCollins / SFBC	08-2961	$11.99^?$: US dollar	312	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	2009-03-00	Neil Gaiman	HarperCollins	978-0-06-053092-1	$17.99^?$: US dollar	312	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	2009-04-00	Neil Gaiman	Subterranean Press	978-1-59606-204-7	$250.00^?$: US dollar	322	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	2009-04-00	Neil Gaiman	Subterranean Press	978-1-59606-204-7	$900.00^?$: US dollar	250	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	2009-04-00	Neil Gaiman	Thorndike Press	978-1-4104-1441-0	$23.95^?$: US dollar	373	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	2009-09-07	Neil Gaiman	Galaxy	978-1-4056-6378-6	£12.99^?£: UK pound		tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
The Graveyard Book	2009-10-00	Neil Gaiman	Bloomsbury	978-0-7475-9862-6	£7.99^?£: UK pound	309	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	2009-10-00	Neil Gaiman	Bloomsbury	978-0-7475-9480-2	£6.99^?£: UK pound	289	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Chris Riddell
The Graveyard Book	2009-11-02	Neil Gaiman	Bloomsbury Children's Books (UK)	978-1-4088-0820-7	£6.98^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Chris Riddell
The Graveyard Book	2010-10-00	Neil Gaiman	Harper	978-0-06-053094-5	$7.99^?$: US dollar	312+ 15	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	2011-09-27	Neil Gaiman	Harper Perennial	978-0-06-208155-1	$12.99^?$: US dollar	x+ 293+ 16	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
The Graveyard Book	2014-09-30	Neil Gaiman	Harper	978-0-06-234918-7	$9.99^?$: US dollar	309	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Dave McKean
Coraline / The Graveyard Book / Fortunately, the Milk	2015-09-08	Neil Gaiman	HarperCollins	978-0-06-237982-5	$21.00^?$: US dollar	512	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni	Chris Riddell
Coraline / The Graveyard Book / Fortunately, the Milk	2015-10-08	Neil Gaiman	Bloomsbury Children's Books (UK)	978-1-4088-7327-4	£21.00^?£: UK pound	576	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Chris Riddell
The Graveyard Book	2017-10-24	Neil Gaiman	Harper	978-0-06-266703-8	$16.99^?$: US dollar	312	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	2018-10-19	Neil Gaiman	Bloomsbury Children's Books (UK)	978-1-5266-0893-2	£9.99^?£: UK pound	320	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Chris Riddell
The Graveyard Book	2021-10-19	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow / HarperCollins	978-0-06-308968-6	$16.99^?$: US dollar	304	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Henry Sene Yee
The Graveyard Book	date unknown	Neil Gaiman	Bloomsbury	978-0-7475-9480-2	£6.99^?£: UK pound	289	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Chris Riddell
The Graveyard Book	date unknown	Neil Gaiman	Harper	978-0-06-284459-0		313+ [12]	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Dave McKean
The Graveyard Book	date unknown	Neil Gaiman	HarperCollins	978-0-06-053092-1	$17.99^?$: US dollar	312	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Dave McKean

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Reviews

Review by Gary K. Wolfe (2008) in Locus, #570 July 2008
Review by James Lovegrove (2008) in Lifelines and Deadlines: Selected Nonfiction, (2015)
Review by David Mathew (2008) in Interzone, #219 December 2008
Review [French] by Nathalie Faure (2009) in Solaris, #171
Review [Dutch] by Roelof Goudriaan (2009) in Holland-SF 2009, #2
Review by Stephen Theaker (2009) in Theaker's Quarterly Fiction, #30
Review by Peter Heck (2009) in Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2009
Review by Sandor Klapcsik (2009) in SFRA Review #288
Review by Hank Wagner (2009) in Dead Reckonings No. 5, Spring 2009
Review by Ellen Datlow (2010) in Cemetery Dance, #63
Review [Dutch] by Jan van 't Ent (2010) in Holland-SF 2010, #2
Review [Dutch] by Sophia Drenth (2010) in Holland-SF 2010, #2
Review by Ashley Denis (2011) in Dark Moon Digest, April 2011
Review by Andy Tomaswick (2011) in StarShipSofa, No 204
Review by Amy Goldschlager (2014) in Locus, #645 October 2014
Review by Tom Feller (2018) in Tightbeam, April 2018