The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman (Also, Odd And The Frost Giants)

March 10th, 2008

 odd frost giants The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman (Also, Odd And The Frost Giants)

I just finished reading Odd And The Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman (with illustrations by Mark Buckingham), a couple of days ago. 

The short novel was written for World Book Day (a bit of a misnomer, really, since it’s exclusively a UK-Ireland thing as far as I’m aware). 

Authors author for free, and publishers publish for free, and little kids get to buy the books on the cheap for 1 Pound Book Tokens.

Promotes childhood literacy, you see.

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My First Post, In Which I Discuss (Briefly) Neil Gaiman. Also, Pandas.

September 3rd, 2007

Here is a picture of one of my favorite authors – Neil Gaiman, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and all-around swell guy.

neilgaimannov04 My First Post, In Which I Discuss (Briefly) Neil Gaiman.  Also, Pandas.

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