From: Betty Tisel <tiselfar>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:56:27 -0600

I too loved the Graveyard book. We read it aloud at home. When we got about 3/4 through, I stayed up late with a flashlight and finished it on my own.

In preparation for this year's Reading the World conference, I'm reading Whispers in the Graveyard by Theresa Breslin, which won the Carnegie medal in England in 1994. It is a very different story, except that it centers on a boy who found a sanctuary for himself in a graveyard. However, in this story the evil emanates within the graveyard. I wonder if this book will have a resurgence in Gaiman's book's wake (nautical wake not funereal wake).
"Whispers" may have its own "resurrection" thanks to Neil Gaiman. It's a compelling, cinematic drama, but lacks the humor and warmth of "The Graveyard Book."

Betty Tisel Minneapolis School library volunteer and children's book consultant






On 2/14/09 8:37 AM, "Monica Edinger" <monicaedinger at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was over the top with pleasure that The Graveyard Book received the
> medal. I fell in love with it last summer and then read it aloud to my 4th
> graders last fall and they fell equally in love with it. We ended up doing
> a mural of which this blog post tells all:
> http://medinger.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/in-the-classroom-the-graveyard-book/
> And then if you want to know even more about what I think please check out
> my review in this weekend's New York Times Book Review at:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/books/review/Edinger-t.html.
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> The Underneath was another favorite of mine. I've written about it as well
> on my blog, but will say that what captivated me was the poetic style and
> the remarkable atmosphere the author created. I'm now reading it aloud to
> my class and they are completely captivated.I'm thinking that it too needs a
> mural as, like The Graveyard Book, there is an incredibly vibrant sense of
> place. That seemingly primordial forest with the sentient trees, the bayou,
> the creek --- I can see it already!
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> Monica Edinger
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