There was something very good about this book. I noticed that it had brilliant pictures in it – even on the Kindle! – and Mum said I could go on the iPad if I wanted to draw a front cover for the book.

I was bored, so Mum let me borrow her Kindle to read a book that was making her laugh, called, ‘Fortunately, the Milk…’ by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Chris Riddell. That is, indeed, what I was planning on doing. ‘BUT,’ she said, ‘Don’t think you’re going to be lazing around watching TV and playing on the computer all day.’ My mum doesn’t always believe me when I say I’m sick, but my sister was sick yesterday so Mum said I could stay off school.

Odd and the Frost Giants: In this inventive, short, yet perfectly formed novel inspired by traditional Norse mythology, Neil Gaiman takes readers on a wild and magical trip to the land of giants and gods and back.įortunately, the Milk: Find out just how odd things get in this hilarious New York Times bestselling story of time travel and breakfast cereal, expertly told by Newbery Medalist and bestselling author Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Skottie Young.A review by my 9 y-o son, described by the utterly lovely Neil Gaiman as the 'best review ever': But can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? The Graveyard Book won the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal and is a Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel.

Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings. The Graveyard Book: Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life. They want to change her and never let her go. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. Neil Gaiman-winner of both a Newbery and Carnegie Medal-presents four of his best-loved acclaimed novels for young readers in this collection.Ĭoraline: When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.

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