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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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  • 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

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  • When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.
    But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to CHANGE her and never let her go.
    Coraline will ... Continue

    When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.
    But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to CHANGE her and never let her go.
    Coraline will have to fight with all her wits and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

    

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• ― meganzing said on Feb 27, 2009 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • Thumbs up for Coraline

  • As I was reading Coraline and thinking of the upcoming movie, I thought for sure (but mistakenly) that Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, BeetleJuice, Nightmare Before Christmas) must be the director of this film because that's the way I visualized the unfolding story as I read. It is at once scary an ... Continue

    As I was reading Coraline and thinking of the upcoming movie, I thought for sure (but mistakenly) that Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, BeetleJuice, Nightmare Before Christmas) must be the director of this film because that's the way I visualized the unfolding story as I read. It is at once scary and entertaining with descriptions of repulsive creatures reminiscent of Susan Sarandon's Alien days. After reading Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, one sees recurring themes of good v. evil. Score one for the white hats as good wins once again in the form of a plucky little girl named Coraline and a talking black cat! An effortless read, the words fly off the page. Maybe I am becoming a lover of fantasy?!

    

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  • Coraline

  • Pure Neil Gaiman, but appropriate for younger readers too.

    

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• ― Readingrat said on Jul 12, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Written and read by Neil Gaiman. Good in parts, and well read, but dragged on in places.

    

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• ― Missmath144 said on Apr 7, 2008 about the Audio CD 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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