Not only is Coraline on Publisher's Weekly best of 2002... also found you on Border's Best Kid's Books of 2002... here's the link and their blurb...
the merriest of un-birthdays... erica
http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=best2002kids
Thanks -- I'll try and put all end of the year mentions of Coraline up here if people send them in.
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Meanwhile, here at me.com Cindy Lynne Speer's essay-list on the status of all the me-related films and film projects has just gone up, at http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/essay06.asp. We'll try and keep it more or less current, but will probably wind up updating it semi-annually. Thanks to Cindy for writing it, and to Julia Bannon for making it happen....