Neil Gaiman is the bestselling author of many multi-award-winning books for both adults and children. Coraline is currently being made into a film, with release scheduled for autumn 2008. Stardust, the movie based on Neil's bestselling graphic novel series, released in the autumn of 2007. Neil lives in America and travels the world extensively promoting his books.

'I think this book will nudge ALICE IN WONDERLAND out of its niche at last. It is the most splendidly original, weird, and frightening book I have read, and yet full of things children will love' Diana Wynne Jones 'This book will send a shiver down your spine, out through your shoes and into a taxi to the airport. It has the delicate horror of the finest fairy tales, and it is a masterpiece. And you will never think about buttons in quite the same way again' Terry Pratchett