Two children are the heroes of this story and they lead the reader to a graveyard at night. 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. Sobat’s book is also a very good way to speak of death, mourning and loss to your child. It also intends to show that none are safe from harm. 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. They all dance the dance of death that you may have heard of. Sobat’s graveyard is populated with a happy throng of dancing undead – skeletons, vampires, zombies, headless horsemen, ghosts. "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. Finalist for Canadian Authors’ Association Exporting Alberta Award 2012
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