Bestselling novelist, screenwriter and comics writer Neil Gaiman won the Newberry Award for his latest children's book, The Graveyard Book which Neil describes as "The Jungle Book only set in a graveyard." In this interview, Neil talks about how he actually came up with the idea for the book when he was a young father watching his little boy ride his tricycle. There was no room in the house for tricyle riding, so Neil took his son to the nearby graveyard which had some nice pathways. His son rode happily up and down the paths, oblivious to the fact that he was in a graveyard, while Neil's creativity began to percolate.
Neil also talks a bit about his writing process and how he chooses his next project. We love everything Neil writes, from novels to screenplays to children's book and everything in between, and The Graveyard Book is another marvelous, magical and mysterious read, along with The Wolves in the Walls, Coraline and The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish. Take a look:
