Book Review - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

I know that I am hardly the first person to have read this book, and now that it has won the National Book Award, I am pretty certain I won't be the last.

I really enjoyed this book. However, I felt that the illustrations took something away from it. On the otherhand I was able to get some of my reluctant reader middle school students to pick up this book and read it *because* of the illustrations.