Neil Gaiman has a talent for taking quirky, 15 degrees off the norm stories and making them compelling. I picked this up for my oldest son, along with Coraline because of this talent. Gaiman's writing for the younger set puts me very much in mind or Roald Dahl and JK Rowling in that his children are competent, they face dangerous situations and come through them, if not unscathed, then at least they come out the other end wiser and often better for the experience. His worlds are often moody, somewhat dim (I wouldn't posit that they are "dark" but rather the first step or two in that direction) and I know a number of parents who feel they are too "strange" to be exposing the younger set to, but have never found them to be too dark or threatening for the kids I read to. Rather the contrast of reasonable people in a strange and unreasonable setting seems to be something that children can relate to (I suppose because we adults often seem unreasonable ;)Get more detail about The Graveyard Book.
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