Student & Parent Book Club - Tuesday 3/10/09 - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

What

Student & Parent Book Club - Tuesday 3/10/09 - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

When

3/10/2009, 6:45 PM – 8:00 PM

Where

Library

Exciting news: The Graveyard Book has just won the John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature, and we're reading it this month! The author, Neil Gaiman, describes how he got the idea for the book:

"Around 1985 or 1986, we lived in a house with no garden, but we had a graveyard just over the run, so that was where my son Michael (three or four at the time) rode his little tricycle. And I remember watching him, and thinking it would be fun to do The Jungle Book, only set in a graveyard instead of a jungle, and that was the start of it."

If you haven't already, you may want to also read Coraline by the same author. You can find a U-Tube trailer about the upcoming movie version @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPft7Sp33fs.

We'll see you Tuesday 3/10/09 at the Correia Library (if you're not too scared to come)!