Hello,
2009 I was not going off without you write a little note of Christmas, crunchy frost in the glow of those candles that stretch the shadows disproportionately. And as I have a weakness for stories we tell in the evening by the fire, the stories that awaken the child in themselves frightened and delighted, I invite you today a small foray into the dark world of Neil Gaiman. 
If you do not know Neil Gaiman, author of comic books, novels for adults and youth novels, you probably know Coraline, a marvel of animation that we owe to Henry Selick, but is adapted from a novel by Neil Gaiman. I found myself in its theatrical release and I was excited as I am with the cartoons Myazaki by those of Michel Ocelot, then by all that out of place in a landscape so second film degree that they seem to distract adults from the drudgery of going to the movies with their children, and always request them. But childhood and early adolescence are also the ages of psychic construction, age of initiation where one needs to get lost in a deep forest and to rub his fears to come out hardened. What fairy tales were included, and that Neil Gaiman does not minimize the importance, for he is not afraid of scaring children. He knows that children love to be scared, it's because they accept an invitation by visiting the space of a book or film, the terrors of another that resembles them, they tame their oh so frightening and more personal. 
If you do not know Neil Gaiman, author of comic books, novels for adults and youth novels, you probably know Coraline, a marvel of animation that we owe to Henry Selick, but is adapted from a novel by Neil Gaiman. I found myself in its theatrical release and I was excited as I am with the cartoons Myazaki by those of Michel Ocelot, then by all that out of place in a landscape so second film degree that they seem to distract adults from the drudgery of going to the movies with their children, and always request them. But childhood and early adolescence are also the ages of psychic construction, age of initiation where one needs to get lost in a deep forest and to rub his fears to come out hardened. What fairy tales were included, and that Neil Gaiman does not minimize the importance, for he is not afraid of scaring children. He knows that children love to be scared, it's because they accept an invitation by visiting the space of a book or film, the terrors of another that resembles them, they tame their oh so frightening and more personal. Often parents think that it is the stories that terrorize children. They forget that fear is born with the child, the mere fact of being a child leads to a number of hauntings that multiply as they grow, that her nightmares are more violent than the darker history and the world does not look like a paradise whose honeyed evil would be proscribed. It is, instead, filled with very real monsters, including ogres, wizards and other creatures with hooked fingers will never be as imperfect metaphors and necessary. Imagine the shock for a high offspring into the world of sweet Strawberry. Better prepare our children the idea that the world we live conceals pitfalls and people with ill intentions, you do not? But if they also say they have the resources to confront these dangers, and come out stronger. And trust them. And Neil Gaiman, like many children's authors, trusts for children, he knows their bravery, not to move forward without fear, but despite her fear. And grow to be able to do so.
few years ago, this author to imaginative writing the story of Coraline Jones, raised between two busy parents who ask him to care alone in the great house they just moved. As she gets bored, as Alice, she discovers a hidden door to a world forbidden, exciting and dangerous. A world where a strange creature that looks a lot like her mother and calls himself the "other mother". A world far more amazing than his own and delighted, but the surprises might be hiding terrifying abyss. Today, Coraline has been adapted into comics by the talented illustrator P. Craig Russell. 
And I can only encourage you to give children from twelve years, because it is a little gem dark and deep, throbbing and filled with emotion. Boys and girls have a passion for adventures of this lovable Coraline is no longer a little girl and not a girl, and must return to the place of all its terrors to free himself and save his parents but imperfect loved: "Because that's the courage to be afraid and do still matters."
And I can only encourage you to give children from twelve years, because it is a little gem dark and deep, throbbing and filled with emotion. Boys and girls have a passion for adventures of this lovable Coraline is no longer a little girl and not a girl, and must return to the place of all its terrors to free himself and save his parents but imperfect loved: "Because that's the courage to be afraid and do still matters." Seven years after the success of Coraline , including winning the prestigious Hugo Awards, Neil Gaiman has released this year a beautiful young adult novel I just finished with regret: The strange life Nobody Owens . 
In the acknowledgments at the end of the book, he tells his children delight in reading the "Jungle Book" and the shadow of Kipling, for sure, hovers over the story of young Nobody Owens. Remember, Mowgly baby abandoned in the jungle, was collected and raised by wolves, learning to grow despite the dangers and knowing that a fierce enemy was at his heels. Neil Gaiman's novel, it begins as follows:
In the acknowledgments at the end of the book, he tells his children delight in reading the "Jungle Book" and the shadow of Kipling, for sure, hovers over the story of young Nobody Owens. Remember, Mowgly baby abandoned in the jungle, was collected and raised by wolves, learning to grow despite the dangers and knowing that a fierce enemy was at his heels. Neil Gaiman's novel, it begins as follows: "There was a hand in the darkness, and that hand was holding a knife."
the beginning is murder. During the night, an assassin slipped in a house to kill a family. But now the baby of eighteen months he escapes, he was the coach, without understanding what he has to escape, he fled to faltering steps towards the nearby hill, where stands an old cemetery. The murderer has sensed the child, it is already on his feet, shaking the gate of the cemetery. The only witnesses of the scene are the dead which float above their graves and facing a moral dilemma. Finally, they decided to save the child. You'll see how. And brought up somehow, with all the problems it poses, a child living among the dead. And with the real threat of this man who has not finished, which seeks the child that has eluded him. It is a captivating story, panting and poetry that examines the fragile border between life and death, a tale of initiation and funeral which will delight children (twelve years still, but it depends on your child, inasmuch as he reads and likes to read) and adults. Because it belongs to the prestigious family of Peter Pan , of Alice in Wonderland , of Harry Potter . And of course it was written by an Englishman, to believe that the English are the only ones to speak the secret language of children, the only to have preserved this part of childhood, the imagination, this seriousness with humor and sensitivity to this wonderful without which it is vain to pretend to address them. Dreamland, the Neverland, where he must dare to commit to pass on the other side of the mirror and meet his loneliness and his strength is in England somewhere between moorland winds battered the Bronte sisters and the ancient forests of Tolkien. And a few miles from Highgate Cemetery - where Bram Stocker has already conducted - on a hill where a company of the dead gathered magnets and secured somehow an orphan, Neil Gaiman awaits. Hush, hush, enter with caution, do not attract the attention of hungry ghouls, do not wake the wyvern that lives down there. Neither creature native to the fingers a bit too long, waiting in the shadows of power "love something that is not in it ... or eat it."
And even if the shadows whisper at the edge of the graves, if the cats look like they know more than they say, if it is not easy to cry for help in Language Skinny Beasts of the night and if you are not sure you can find your way through the haze ... Have a merry Christmas.
Gaëlle Nohant
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