Gaiman wins the Newbery Award for The Graveyard Book!

Posted by Cory Doctorow, January 27, 2009 9:52 PM | permalink

A million congrats to Neil Gaiman for winning the prestigious and much-deserved Newbery Award for his young adult novel The Graveyard Book, a magical ghost-story retelling of The Jungle Book. You earned it, Neil!

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#1 posted by taj , January 27, 2009 10:30 PM

Hurrah and Congratulations! The audiobook version is brilliant. Thank you Neil for writing and reading it and thank you Cory for the introduction.

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#2 posted by Darwindr , January 27, 2009 11:21 PM

Conga-rats to Neil! A wonderful award for my favorite writer and one of the most gifted and generous storytellers on the planet.

Also really looking forward to the 3D stop-motion movie version of his book Coraline and can't wait for when he is finally going to get to direct his Death movie.

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#3 posted by kiltreiser , January 28, 2009 1:54 AM

I just finished reading the Graveyard Book last night and it's utterly fantastic. I was on the edge of my seat (well, my bed anyway) at several points and the ending damn near forced a few tears out. Neil is a truly wondrous writer, deserving of every award he receives and then some.

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#4 posted by Jeff , January 28, 2009 6:03 AM

A few days ago I was at a con (the one Cory was attending), and I was able to look at a copy of Subterranean Press’s limited addition of this Neil Gaiman book. It was just beautiful! I can only think that this Newbery award will cause these limited editions to sell even faster. Very cool. I want one.

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#5 posted by igpajo , January 28, 2009 6:36 AM

Well deserved!! I listened the audio version too and it was brilliantly done. Gaiman is the only person who should ever be allowed to read his books. (His reading of Anansi Boys is amazing too!)
I want to buy the book now for my son.

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#6 posted by TheMadLibrarian , January 28, 2009 1:14 PM

I'm thrilled Neil won the Newbery this year. This is the first Newbery book in several years I thought would actually draw in a 5th or 6th grader and get them to read for fun. I got to explain a bit to my co-workers about who Neil is, some of his previous work, etc. It's about time!

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#7 posted by Anonymous , January 30, 2009 1:19 AM

The book sounds good, but frustratingly I've been unable to find it in stores when I've gone looking. Nobody seems to stock it... might need to order from Amazon...