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''Whispers in the Graveyard'' is a children's novel by Theresa Breslin, published by Methuen in 1994. Breslin won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.〔 In a retrospective award citation the librarians call it "a gripping, powerful and haunting story".〔 Richard Conlon and Theresa Breslin adapted the novel as a play, which was published by Heinemann in 2009. WorldCat participating libraries report holding Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Thai, and Korean-language editions.〔 ("Formats and Editions of Whispering in the graveyard" ) (page two). WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-09-10.〕 ==Origins== According to the author, her work as a librarian exposed her to "parents asking for books about dyslexia, for names of help groups, names of special tutors etc." She attended a local meeting of the British Dyslexia Association and recognised the pain and frustration of children, their families, and educators. She determined to write a book featuring a boy, in the first person and present tense.〔 She started writing without a story but "a ring road was being built in my home town, and to do this it was necessary to move the interred bodies out of an old graveyard which lay in the path of the new road. One of the graves included a mass grave of smallpox victims (children) When the news became public there was a big scare."〔 ("Theresa Breslin: Whispers in the Graveyard: Research" ). Theresa Breslin. Retrieved 2012-09-10.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Whispers in the Graveyard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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