In The Graveyard

Finalist for Canadian Authors’ Association Exporting Alberta Award 2012

"Gail Sidonie Sobat’s “new children’s book, about death, dying and the afterlife is now available worldwide,…is a pleasant, intelligent text that contains intertextual references to tolling bells and creeping undead. Sobat’s graveyard is populated with a happy throng of dancing undead – skeletons, vampires, zombies, headless horsemen, ghosts. They all dance the dance of death that you may have heard of. It is a theme that runs through art and literature from Medieval times and which intends to show how life and death are inevitably linked in one steady, relentless, rhythmic pace which traverses time. It also intends to show that none are safe from harm. Sobat’s book is also a very good way to speak of death, mourning and loss to your child. Strangely enough, it also carries a ray of hope, an idea that all things continue, that the cycle of life is eternal, stronger than death. Two children are the heroes of this story and they lead the reader to a graveyard at night. If you follow them to the end, after closing the last page, you will also know that you live among the dead, that they are not scary, that they are your past and that they are with you, and always will be.  In the Graveyard is a precious work of art too, generously illustrated by Spyder Yardley-Jones." - Gothic Readings in the Dark

"Gail Sidonie Sobat… has created a masquerade masterpiece; illustrated by artist Spyder Yardley-Jones…. [A] spooktacular book" - EPSB Review