I read the Graveyard Book by Neil Gaimon, the second of his children's books I've read lately (the other being Coraline). It is about a baby who's family is murdered by a mysterious and evil man (with an excellent sense of smell) but he escapes (crawls) to a graveyard and the ghosts who live there rescue, protect, and raise him. I think that Gaimon is one of a kind. He creates these scary, imaginary worlds for kids and helps them find their way out of that fear themselves, with little adult assistance. I think in a world as scary as this one, there is something to be said for showing children that they can survive within themselves.
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