Neil Gaiman
This week brought news of a new project from Neil Gaiman. After the success of The Graveyard Book and Coraline, he’s continuing to write for a younger audience with Instructions. Described as “a charming guide through fairy and folk tales, as well as life” the book will be illustrated by Charles Vess (who worked with Gaiman on the Sandman series) and published by Harper Children’s in May 2010.
While there’s no news on the content of the book, our guess is it’s a picture book adaptation of the poem “Instructions” that Gaiman published in A Wolf at the Door. According to his blog, he’s currently in China, working on a project called Journey to the West.
ETA: According to Charles Vess, our guess was right! He kindly pointed me to more detailed information on his blog. Head over to check out the beautiful illustrations and get a peek into Vess’ creative process.
Trisha,
There is plenty of information as well as many images from Instructions up on my blog:
http://greenmanpress.com/news/archives/447#comments
Enjoy!
Charles
Hi Charles! Thanks for chiming in. I don’t know how I missed that when I was looking through your site. Will adjust the post to contain a link (and let everyone know my guess was right, of course!). The illustrations are gorgeous.