Julia Thompson wrote: >>>Info available at http://aggiecon.tamu.edu/ The guest of honor >>>is Neil Gaiman. >>> >>If Neil is doing a live reading, you should go to it if you can. >>He's got a delightful reading voice. > >Thank you for that recommendation. I did go (managed to hand Sammy >off to Dan for the hour) and I really, really enjoyed it.
You're welcome! I'm glad that you enjoyed it. >Gaiman has a children's book coming out in the UK later this year. >No US release date can be found on amazon.com, so I'm guessing it >won't be released here until next year, at least. I'm going to try >to order a copy from the UK for the friend who went with me to the >reading, to give it to her for Christmas. It's called _Coraline_. That's great! I'll have to keep an eye out for it. Did you ever read his first children's book, _The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish_? If you can find a copy, you should get it. It's excellent, and the Dave Mckean art is of his typically high quality, assuming you like his quirky multimedia style. Jim ------------------------------------------------
