Revisiting: The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish

“I’ll swap you my dad,” I said.

“Oh-oh,” said my little sister.

This was the year of Neil Gaiman for my class.  In the fall I read aloud an ARC of The Graveyard Book, we fell madly in love with it and made a mural, and were thrilled beyond measure when it won the Newbery Award.  The Coraline movie caused much in-class discussion (especially some of the changes from the book) and the kids also enjoyed tremendously my reading aloud Gaiman and McKean’s clever  The Wolves in the Wall.  I then wanted