Neil Gaiman

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Neil GaimanBIOGRAPHICAL

Born Nov. 10, 1960

In England

Precocious

Neil Gaiman“I loved comics when I was

growing up, and I never saw any reason why they should be

considered inferior.

I thought they could have as much power and passion and

elegance as any other medium.”

Neil Gaiman

PROFESSIONAL Journalism

Alan Moore

The Sandman

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STYLE Mythology

Clarity

Children

The today, the yesterday and the tomorrow

Layers and layers

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THEMES

Relationships

Reality/Perception

The Quest

Experience

Change

75 volumesancient fables, myths, and legends woven into a new mythology for modern-day readers

7 brothers and sisters Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Delirium who was once Delight, and Destruction

Their names describe their function and the realms that they are in charge of.

Wizards attempted to end death by taking Death captive, but captured Dream (Morpheus) instead.

When he finally escapes he must face the changes that have gone on in his realm, and the changes in himself.

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A sleeping family, a gruesome murder, and nimble toddler — orphaned, but not assassinated. The child escapes the scene of the crime and climbs the grassy hill to safety.The hill sits inside a cemetery, and in the cemetery are the spirits, ghosts and ghouls, who find the boy.

Newbery Award 2008

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CORALINEIn another world behind a locked

door, Coraline finds that she has two creepy alternate parents, with pale complexions and black button eyes, who wish to keep her. She struggles to escape back through the door and into her house, but finds that her real parents have been taken, and she must go back to save them.

The Wolves in the Walls    Lucy is convinced that the crackling, sneaking,

creeping, crumpling noises she hears in the walls of her house must be wolves--and they are. Her mother scoffs.

But the wolves do come out of the walls, and Lucy's family must abandon their house to the wolves' revelry, only to end up living inside the walls themselves.

Gaiman could be saying: Vindicate children's fears. There are wolves in the walls, and so accordingly, there probably are real, child-eating monsters under the bed! But the wolves/monsters can also be defeated through courage and ingenuity. But he could also just be using these fears to craft a wonderfully creative story.

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“I want to shed skins. I want to keep awake. I definitely have a feeling that if I'm not going forward, if I'm not learning something, then I'm dead.”

Resources  Q & A with Neil Gaiman. This article originally appeared in PW's

Children's Bookshelf. By Donna Freitas -- Publishers Weekly, 10/9/2008. http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/400282-Q_A_with_Neil_Gaiman.php.

Fictionwise, supported by Barnes & Noble, contains a listing of Neil Gaiman’s ebooks with nice little summaries. http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/NeilGaimaneBooks.htm

Neil Gaiman’s site dedicated to his novels, tours, conferences and read-alouds. www.mousecircus.com

Neil Gaiman’s personal site. http://www.neilgaiman.com/

Neil Gaiman’s facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/neilgaiman