The Graveyard Book

by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illustrator)

After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family . . .

(Summary retrieved from goodreads.com)

Imagine the Jungle Book, but in a graveyard. I loved this book and especially loved that my commute took me passed a graveyard twice a week while I was reading it. I definitely kept an eye out, but maybe it was just the sun glinting off of something shiny that I saw...

Incredible story accompanied by fantastic illustrations. Bod is exactly the brave sparky kid I like to aspire to be these days. It's never too late.