Courtesy of City of Tea Tree Gully Library
Neil Gaiman, the acclaimed novelist, comic writer, and screenwriter has just added a new acclimation to his name — children’s novelist.
Gaiman is now the only human on Earth to have won the Newbury Medal (the top prize for children’s literature in the United States) and the Carnegie Medal (the top prize for children’s literature in the United Kingdom) in the same year.
The medals are now adoring the book The Graveyard Book only his second work for children (his first was the acclaimed Coraline), which follows a boy named Nobody Owens who is raised by ghosts in a graveyard.
Gaiman has said that he came up with the idea for the novel 25 years ago, but didn’t believe he could pull it off.
The author is mostly known for his Sandman series of comics, and is married to singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer, who is pretty awesome.
