Fill in the Blanks Parts of Speech - PracticeOnline version Read part of Neil Gaiman's interview to PW's Children's Bookshelf and discover more about his inspiration to write "The Graveyard Book". Complete the blanks by clicking on the most appropriate option. by Barbara Azevedo Furtado 1 How did you to set Bod ? s story in , of all , a graveyard ? Twenty - three and a half years ago I was living in Sussex in a very , narrow house . It was , thin and practically every room was on a floor . I had an 18 - month - old son and he had a little . You can ? t really let an 18 - month - old with a tricycle ride around in a house with all these stairs because he would just go tumbling down . We didn ? t have a , either . But just across the lane we had a country graveyard . I would take my son and his tricycle down all the stairs and across the lane where he would go tricycling around the graveyard very . And I would sit on the steps outside watching him in the graveyard . One day I thought , I could do something just like The Jungle Book ! Why The Jungle Book ? In The Jungle Book , Mowgli is abandoned in the jungle and by animals and taught the things that animals know . I thought , " I could have a boy abandoned in a graveyard who is taught the things that whoever in the graveyard knows ! "
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