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  • Excellently creepy novel from the ever-inventive mind of Neil Gaiman.

    

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• ― guaddess said on May 31, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Fascinating Fantastic Fairy-tale

  • "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
    Coraline opens with a quotation by G.K. Chesterton.
    And, after reading it, I can assure that it is THE fairy tale. Non in the childish meaning of the term, b ... Continue

    "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
    Coraline opens with a quotation by G.K. Chesterton.
    And, after reading it, I can assure that it is THE fairy tale. Non in the childish meaning of the term, but in the fact that it REALLY teaches us that evils can be beaten.
    Coraline is an amazing book, it's a story that can be read at various levels, since it will make children thrill and adults frighten.
    Maybe it's the shortest novel by Neil, maybe it's children-targeted. Well, who cares? It just DESERVES to be read, whether you're eight or eighty. That's all.

    Looking forward to watching the movie.

    Ps. Sorry for the capital letters, please read them as if they are in italics.

    

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  • L'ho letto per vedere se poteva essere adatto per mia figlia di 8 anni, dal momento che alcune sue amichette più grandi lo avevano già letto.
    Ho terminato questo libro in brevissimo tempo, divorato direi, l'ho trovato inquietante e delicato allo stesso tempo. Penso che lo leggeremo insieme, piu ... Continue

    L'ho letto per vedere se poteva essere adatto per mia figlia di 8 anni, dal momento che alcune sue amichette più grandi lo avevano già letto.
    Ho terminato questo libro in brevissimo tempo, divorato direi, l'ho trovato inquietante e delicato allo stesso tempo. Penso che lo leggeremo insieme, piuttosto che lasciarla da sola nella lettura.

    

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  • Modern-day Alice in Wonderland, with a creepy and chilling twist.

    PS The movie is fantastic too!

    

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  • Una fiaba gotica delicata e oscura.

    

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• ― ReiraNoire said on Nov 19, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  • I loved it! Well written, engaging and so entertaining. So much more than a simple "children book".

    

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• ― Demonio Pellegrino said on Oct 26, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

The day after they moved in,
Coraline went exploring....

In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.

The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.

Only it's different.

At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.

Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.

Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.

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