by vjbooks | Oct 31, 2017 | Collecting, We're Talking Books!
THE GRAPHIC NOVEL Graphic novels are best defined as book-length comics. They are often a single storyline, flowing from first page to last, and sometimes they are collections of short stories. Graphic novels, like the comic books they parallel, rely to a high degree...
by vjbooks | Feb 18, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Feb. 9) Neil Gaiman won the Newbery Medal last month for The Graveyard Book, which was already on our bestseller charts; now it takes the #1 position (for Children’s Fiction Bestsellers). When PW asked Gaiman how it felt to become the...
by vjbooks | Jan 26, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Jan. 26, Diane Roback) Neil Gaiman has won the 2009 Newbery Medal for The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins). Beth Krommes has won the 2009 Randolph Caldecott Medal for The House in the Night (Houghton Mifflin), written by Susan Marie Swanson....
by vjbooks | Dec 9, 2008 | Children and YA, We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Sept. 29, Dave McKean) A lavish middle-grade novel, Gaiman’s first since Coraline, this gothic fantasy almost lives up to its extravagant advance billing. The opening is enthralling: “There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a...
by vjbooks | Oct 1, 2008 | Children and YA, We're Talking Books!
(John Sellers, Publisher’s Weekly, Aug. 25) “Though Neil Gaiman has been plenty busy in the years since his 2002 Coraline, The Graveyard Book is his first full-length middle-grade novel since that title. In it, a toddler-whose family has been...
