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Title: The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean ISBN: 0-380-97827-X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (37 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It's all over
Comment: It's too beautiful to be a children's book. Inspired by a nightmare of one of his daughter's, author Neil Gaiman has developed a wonderful terrifying tale. Lucy can hear wolves in the walls of her home. She's quite certain of what she's hearing, but her family doesn't seem to believe her. When the wolves come out, it is (as the family has always said) all over. Lucy must find a way for her family to retake their home from the nasty, jam-eating, video game playing, tuba thumping wolves.
The pairing of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean on this book is inspired. Gaiman has often said in interviews that he sees this book less as a picture book and more as a graphic novel. The distinction is slight. In some cases the pages are separated into four panels (something you'd see in a comic book and not, necessarily, a story for children). But I disagree with Mr. Gaiman. This is a picture book and it shows. McKean has taken Gaiman's wonderfully twisted tale and created pictures that combine such a huge amount of different media, it could blow your mind. A single panel might have a gigantic wolf drawn in pen and ink with photos of socks on its feet and fabric beneath him for the bed.
Is the story too scary for children? Well, sure. For some children. I'm not going to grab the your two year-old and force them to read it. But kids with a healthy sense of humor and intelligence will like this book. It will not give them nightmares. It will not make them afraid of wolves for the rest of their little lives. But it will peak their interest and curiosity. I recommend it. It's a one in a million book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dark Modern Fairy Tale with Superb Illustrations
Comment: So many of today's children's books are all full of white light bunny fluff. We protect our little darlings from anything that might be frightening. But children know better. They know about the monster under the bed and the reasons not to be alone in the dark. They KNOW, and when we adults tell them that "there's nothing to be worried about" they KNOW that we're no help.
Neil Gaiman and David McKean have offered children of all ages the gift of knowledge--in this wonderful volume comes the knowledge that at least SOME adults KNOW what can lurk in the unknown.
In this story, the adults (and even the kid brother) are SO wrong about what lurks within the walls, but Lucy, the hero, KNOWS. She plays the part of a child in a fairy tale, leading the "knowing" adults to KNOWLEDGE, and finally to overcoming their fears and setting things right.
The illustrations buttress the message of this neo-fairy tale and increase the delight of reading it or having it read to you. Impactful, but not so dark as stories where witches want to pop plump children into their ovens.
All my kids, their friends, and my friends who are children at heart LOVE this book. Buy it already!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Being Stalked
Comment: Neil Gaiman writes really spooky kid's books. If you like stories that make you see things in your peripheral vision in the dark shadows of your room at night, he's the man to look to. Just like with Coraline, his voice is as distinctive and cool here as with his more adult pursuits.
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Title: Endless Nights (The Sandman, Book 11) by Neil Gaiman ISBN: 1401200893 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 17 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean ISBN: 1565041992 Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc. Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Coraline by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean ISBN: 0380977788 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title:Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere ASIN: B0000A14WF Publisher: A & E Home Video Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $34.76 |
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Title: Harlequin Valentine by Neil Gaiman, John Bolton ISBN: 156971620X Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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