Neil Gaiman books the Graveyard

Neil Gaiman has just announced that he’s finished the Graveyard Book (Amazon). As per usual, it challenges any preconceptions about children’s literature as did Coraline, Wolves in the Wall and Mirrormask. I cannot wait until October when it arrives.
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Neil Gaiman’s Coraline sneak peak trailer

OMG, Neil Gaiman’s got a sneaky trailer of the Henry Selick’s animation of Coraline. It looks absolutely fab (its short though) and reminds me a little of Tim Burton’s animation style or Jan Svankmajer. Coraline is one of my all time favourite books and I cannot wait.
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Digital Children’s books online

The Horn Book blog has a piece on the International Digital Children’s Library, a non profit organization who have digitized various gems so that they can be viewed by  a wider audience. Whilst it is open access, you can’t fully download texts and need to use their reader. Annoying but I think that this is  […]

The BBC gets Mervyn Peake

The BBC show on Mervyn Peake has just been out forward to March 5th according the Sebastian Peake’s blog.
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Fan Husbandry

Should creators necessarily listen to fans and adjust creations according to comments?
io9 (via Holly Black) has a piece on the art of fan husbandry in response to Russell Davies comments that he doesn’t want to listen to fans so breaking a cardinal rule - don’t insult or flatter them. To be fair, it does appear […]

C.S. Lewis more popular than J.K. Rowling in Booktrust poll

Booktrust, the charity set up to encourage reading, commissioned a poll of the best children’s books for the government backed Bookstart, according to the Times. C.S Lewis’s Narnia tops the polls with the ubiquitous J.K. Rowling coming in at number 6.
Part of this, I suspect, is the simple question of “who do you poll”. […]

David Fickling launches new weekly comic

David Fickling, the excellent publisher of children’s books, is launching a new comic according to the Independent. Philip Pullman will be writing a strip called “The Adventures of John Blake”. Not sure who else is joining in yet.
You can sign up for the email news letter for the launch on the site but the contents […]

Books as product placement

The Horn Book blog has a story on the use of product placement in books. Susan Katz, the publisher of Harper Collins children’s books comments in the New York Times:
“If you look at Web sites, general media or television, corporate sponsorship or some sort of advertising is totally embedded in the world that tweens live […]

Holly Black launches film thread

Holly Black has set up a thread on her Livejournal for the Spiderwick Chronicles film.
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Steve Augarde talks comics

Steve Augarde’s latest piece in his running series of “Things once common, now extinct” covers comics and his reading of every comic that came into the house including his sister’s. Its a good reminder of all those times spent reading the Eagle (I’m pretty much with him on the Mekon but I did like Doomlord).
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