Gaiman wins the Newbery Award for The Graveyard Book!

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!

What I look like the day after I win the Newbery (Thanks, John Mark!)

Previously:

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Anonymous

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…
taj

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

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.
kiltreiser

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.
Jeff

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 Pressâ€™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.
TheMadLibrarian

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!
igpajo

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.