Four of beloved author Neil Gaiman's delightfully scary, strange, and hilarious children's tales read by the author, now available unabridged. This collection includes: The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, The Wolves in the Walls, Cinnamon and Crazy Hair.
It also includes an interview of the author by his daughter.
Anansi Boys is Gaiman's own blend of mythologically charged thriller, along the lines of his earlier novel American Gods. This time the story is set in the UK and the Caribbean and it's about gods, the magic of stories and the power of song. And in audio at least, it's even better. The audio book is comparatively easy listening and the narrator, Lenny Henry, is an uncannily successful match for the story. Born in the UK to Jamaican parents, Henry straddles the two cultures comfortably and brings the songs, strories and characters in the novel to glorious life. An absolute delight to those of us who enjoy accents and good story-telling.
Added by: libera | Karma: 34.13 | E-Books | 27 February 2012
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Coraline by Neil Gaiman (Graphic novel)
Coraline graphic novel. Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door in her new home and into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 15 August 2011
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Anansi Boys
One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime. Anansi Boys is a novel by Neil Gaiman, a spin-off of Gaiman's earlier novel American Gods. In Anansi Boys we discover that 'Mr. Nancy' (Anansi) has two sons, and the two sons in turn discover each other. The novel follows their adventures as they explore their common heritage.
