The Book Report Network is a wonderful resource. I was so impressed by it that I bookmarked it on my computer. I checked out kidsreads.com. There, I clicked on to the link called "Cool and New" and saw all the latest and popular children's books. Kidsreads.com will be a very helpful tool for me as I do reader's advisory and find books for our own collection. I also explored authoryellowpages.com. I looked up some information on Neil Gaiman. His page reminded me that I wanted to read his comic books about the Sandman and his novel American Gods. (I will record them on my goodreads account, as books I would like to read.)
Using the Biography Reference Center, I decided to continue looking up more information on Neil Gaiman. I found out that he first read Alice in Wonderland when he was five, and read the book continuously for the next seven years. He was in a punk band when he was sixteen. As a teen he told his career counselor that he wanted to write American comics and the counselor, dumbfounded, could simply suggest looking at a career as an accountant. Could you imagine if he went into acccounting?! What a loss that would have been! Another interesting tidbit was that he started his writing career as a journalist and wrote his first book about Duran Duran called Duran Duran: The First Four Years of the Fab Five. Not only has Gaiman written comics, plays, children's books for all ages, adult fiction and non-fiction, but he has even written an episode for Babylon 5 - talk about versatile and gifted! Gaiman never ceases to amaze me.
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