From #1 New York Times bestselling author NeilGaiman, an ingenious and captivating reimagining of Rudyard Kipling's adventureThe Jungle Book that is a glorious meditation on love, loss, survival, sacrifice, and what it means to truly be alive-one of ten classic Gaiman worksrepackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry SeneYee.Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.He would have been completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawlinggraveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian whobelongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangersand adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an ancient Indigo Man beneath thehill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strangeand terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he willcome under attack from the man Jack--who has already killed Bod's family. . . By turns macabre, uplifting, sinister, andheartwarming, Neil Gaiman's #1 national bestseller-winner of the Carnegie andNewbury Medals and the Hugo Award-is a "novel of wonder . . . a tale ofunforgettable enchantment" (New York Times Book Review).
Sobre o autor(a)
Gaiman, Neil
Neil Gaiman tem mais de vinte livros publicados para leitores de todas as idades e já recebeu diversos prêmios literários, incluindo o Hugo, o Bram Stoker e a Newbery Medal. É autor do inesquecível Coraline, ilustrado por Chris Riddell e adaptado para o cinema. Começou a carreira como jornalista, mas logo seu talento para construir tramas e universos únicos foi levado para o mundo dos quadrinhos, com a aclamada série Sandman, e, depois, para a ficção adulta e a infantojuvenil. Pela Intrínseca, publicou também João & Maria, Kanela, Cabelo doido, O alfabeto perigoso, A verdade é uma caverna nas Montanhas Negras, O oceano no fim do caminho, Mitologia nórdica, Deuses americanos, Coisas frágeis, Biblioteca Gaiman, entre muitos outros. |