This year's Newbery Medal was awarded yesterday to Neil Gaiman for his children's novel The Graveyard Book. Gaiman, talking about the honor said:I never really thought of myself as a Newbery winner. It’s such a very establishment kind of award, in the right kind of way, with the world of librarians pointing at the book saying, ‘This is worthy of the ages.’ And I’m so very used to working in, and enjoying working in, essentially the gutter.
Read more about this from The Associated Press.
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