Neil Gaiman's "Graveyard" Wins Newberry Medal

Kids, prepare to be creeped out: novelist Neil Gaiman writes the scariest stories for young readers, and he is all over the place at the moment.

Gaiman just won the Association for Library Service to Children's Newbery Medal for "The Graveyard Book", a story about an orphaned boy who is raised by ghosts, werewolves and the like on a cemetery.

"A child named Nobody, an assassin, a graveyard and the dead are the perfect combination in this deliciously creepy tale, which is sometimes humorous, sometimes haunting and sometimes surprising," said Newbery Committee Chair Rose V. Trevi±o on the Association's website.

And on February 6, the movie version of one of Gaiman's most well-known works, "Coraline", hits the big screen. Henry Selick of The Nightmare Before Christmas directs, and Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher are the leading voice talents in this animated feature.

Young Coraline discovers a bizarre, but infinitely better version of her own world behind a secret door in her new apartment. But soon, the dream world turns out to be more of a nightmare.

"It's the biggest, most strange, expressive, peculiar, enormous stop-motion film I think that's ever been made," author Gaiman told Wired.