Mouse Circus: Reading with Neil Gaiman

For students looking for something a bit more challenging than picture books, Neil Gaiman’s site for younger readers is worth checking out.  He is reading two of his famous chapter books: Coraline and The Graveyard Book, chapter by chapter to support distance learning.  The Graveyard Book is about a boy named Bod who lives in a graveyard, raised by the other occupants that exist there.  Coraline is about a girl who moves into a new house and finds a door that leads to another world. Be warned: both books have a definite eerie element to them; although I was able to read Coraline, and I am a bit of a chicken…