book review - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Just (like 5 minutes ago) finished reading The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and I loved it, great story. It's considered juvenile fiction and is in large part inspired by Kipling's The Jungle Book but instead of a boy raised by wolves, instructed by bears and watched over by a panther it's the story of a boy raised by ghosts, instructed by both ghosts and a werewolf and watched over by a vampire. The story moves along at a good pace and probably is pretty good for kids (and adults that still like kid lit.), I'm going to try and get my middle children to read it. In an interesting, to me at least, side note Gaiman thanks Audrey Niffenegger in his acknowledgments, Niffenegger is the author of The Time Traveler's Wife which is the last non-Gaiman book I've read. I find little coincidences like that fascinating.