NEIL GAIMAN has coscripted (with Roger Avary) Robert Zemeckis’s motion-capture fantasy film Beowulf, while both Matthew Vaughn’s Stardust and Henry Selick’s Coraline were based on his novels. Next up, his Newbery Medal–winning children’s novel The Graveyard Book is being adapted for the movies, with Gaiman on board as one of the producers. The ever-busy author also has out a book of poems, Blueberry Girl, illustrated by Charles Vess; Crazy Hair, a new picture book with regular collaborator Dave McKean; and the graphic novel compilation Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? (with art by Andy Kubert). The Tales of Odd is a follow-up to the 2008 children’s book Odd and the Frost Giants, while The Absolute Death and The Complete Death from DC/Vertigo feature the character from Gaiman’s Sandman comic. The author is also working on a nonfiction volume about China, following his visit to that country in 2007.