For those of you who read the Newbery Award winning book last year, The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman, then you might like to see his new book. It is a collection of poems that are quite creative. One of the poem examples can be found at this site:
http://www.endicott-studio.com/cofhs/cofinstr.html
As I looked back over his body of work, he has a dark streak. In his own words,
"Despite all that, Gaiman, 49, said he's "not a horror aficionado."
"I'm probably more like a cook who uses horror as a herb or as a condiment. I love tossing in something that will send a little frisson of something or other up someone's spine. But I don't want to live there a year writing a book."
While "The Graveyard Book" is set in a cemetery, where an orphaned boy is raised by ghosts after his family is murdered, Gaiman said it's really a book about life and leaving home. His latest book "Instructions," is a poem about how to survive a fairy tale.
I've never read anything by Neil Gaiman, but I have seen Stardust which was made from one of his books. I will say from what I've seen and heard he definitely has an interesting imagination.
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