Lean crisp prose adds to the suspense and propels the story, and the eerie black-and-white illustrations by Dave McKean heighten the nightmarish quality of the tale." - Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) Gaiman actually seems to understand the way children think. "A deliciously scary book that we loved reading together as a family." - Orson Scott Card "Chilly, finely-wrought prose, a truly weird setting and a fable that taps into our most uncomfortable fears." - Times Educational Supplement "So wonderfully whimsical that readers of all ages will hungrily devour itCoraline is destined to become a classic. " Walk through the door and you'll believe in love, magic, and the power of good over evil." - USA Today
"An electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "It has the delicate horror of the finest fairy tales, and it is a masterpiece." - Terry Pratchett
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"The most splendidly original, weird, and frightening book I have read, and yet full of things children will love." - Diana Wynne Jones
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, rise to your feet and applaud: Coraline is the real thing." - Philip Pullman, The Guardian "Gaiman's pacing is superb, and he steers the tension of the tale with a deft and practiced narrative touch." - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Coraline is spot on." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Coraline is by turns creepy and funny, bittersweet and playful.can be read quickly and enjoyed deeply." - San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "A modern ghost story with all the creepy trimmings.Well done." - New York Times Book Review Readers young and old will find something to startle them." - Washington Post Book World "Gaiman's tale is inventive, scary, thrilling and finally affirmative. 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.Ĭritically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. They want to change her and never let her go. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. 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. 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.Īt first, things seem marvelous in the other flat.
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In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Neil Gaiman's Coraline is a can't-miss classic that enthralls readers age 8 to 12 but also adults who enjoy a perfect smart spooky read.įrom the Back Cover The day after they moved in, They want to change her and never let her go.Ĭoraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life. When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.īut there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman's modern classic, Coraline -also an Academy Award-nominated filmĬoraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house. But when she wants to leave, things turn unpleasant. About the Book When Coraline steps through the locked doors in her family's new flat, she finds a world which caters to her every whim.