Unfortunately I am not going to read the book, so I can't give it an accurate overall review (take the 2 star rating with a grain of salt), but I wanted to warn others about the very disturbing, terrifying opening scenes of this book. This is a very dark, scary book, appropriate for teenagers perhaps but NOT anyone younger. I agree with many of the reviews on this site and use it often, but I think they COMPLETELY missed the mark on this one. In hindsight, I should have previewed the book and not given it to her, but as I said, Common Sense Media rated it age 9+- so when she grabbed it from me at the library I let her run off with it. I had a hard time looking at the images - so you can imagine how my 10.5 year old felt. The second page features scenes of: a little girl lying in a bed with her throat slit an adult woman laying in bed with her throat slit, and a man laying face down on the floor, dead, with a knife wound in his back. I like Neil Gaiman, and thought I'd introduce my daughter to some of his work ( I realize this is an adaptation of his work - my daughter loves graphic novels.). Craig Russell and illustrated by an extraordinary team of renowned artists. I picked this up at the library for my 10.5 year old, based on the positive, age 9+ reviews from common sense media. The second volume of a glorious two-volume, four-color graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaimans 1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery and Carnegie Medal-winning novel The Graveyard Book, adapted by P.
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