Pretty Pictures

Chris Riddell's illustrations for the Bloomsbury edition of The Graveyard Book just came in. Here are three of my favourites. One from Chapter Three ("The Hounds of God"), one from Chapter Four ("The Witch's Headstone") and one from Chapter Seven ("Every Man Jack").





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Also a few people wrote in to ask how I feel about having three books in the LibraryThing Top 106 Unread Books Meme.... and I went and checked and was a bit disappointed to find that I'm no longer in there -- according to http://www.librarything.com/tag/unread I no longer have any books in the top 106. Bugger. Given that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the most unread Library Thing book I assumed it was a list of books people planned to read one day, not books they didn't plan to pick up....

Labels: chris Riddell, not as unread as I was hoping, The Graveyard Book