Children's Lit
Speaking of The Graveyard (audio)Book, It’s Free
Well, sort of. Just thought you should know that, last year, Neil went on a promotional tour for The Graveyard Book during which he read a chapter of the book at each stop. (One particularly long chapter got split in two, much to one audience’s chagrin.) In a blessed move, his publisher consented to record these readings and place them, in their entirety, on his young readers’ website, Mr. Bobo’s Remarkable Mouse Circus. You can find the videos here. I’ve listened to parts of it at work, and sure enough he delivers the same wonderful performance during these readings that he does on the audiobook. So, turn on your speakers and open a new tab, clicky-clicky, and have Neil read you a story today while you work. Enjoy!
Book Review: The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly
Short version: It’s dangerous all right.
Slightly longer version: Neil Gaiman has explained that his primary guiding light when writing for children is, essentially, "would I think this was cool when I was that age? " He tells the story he wants to tell, and the audience (adult v children v fantasy v horror v … I don’t know, clown aficionados) will figure itself out. Now, it helps that at this point his devoted fans will help get the word out to the right people that “hey, this is your kind of book,” but I suspect he got where he is in part because he goes this route.
Which brings me to The Dangerous Alphabet , his tasty little morsel of an alphabet book that perfectly straddles the line between “written with a wink at the parents” and “aimed squarely at the kiddos.” The prose follows the standard “A is for <foo>, <rhythmic continuation>” and the story won’t surprise a typical Gaiman reader (kids lost in an underground sewer world that gets progressively spookier). The book really stands out in three ways.
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