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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780061649691
Edition: Mti Rep
ISBN: 0061649694
Label: HarperFestival
Manufacturer: HarperFestival
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: November 01, 2008
Publisher: HarperFestival
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Studio: HarperFestival

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:


When Coraline explores her new home, she steps through a door and into another house just like her own . . . except that it's different. It's a marvelous adventure until Coraline discovers that there's also another mother and another father in the house. They want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to keep her forever!



Coraline must use all of her wits and every ounce of courage in order to save herself and return home.






Rating: - Compelling, disturbing and deliciously scary
I had never heard of Coraline until I read about it on a book blog. I borrowed it from my local library and devoured it in about 2 hours. Neil Gaiman, who I've since come to appreciate in the form of his adult novel American Gods, writes a strange little tale of the headstrong and clever Coraline and her adventures "through the looking glass." This book is genuinely creepy and all that business about the imposter parents having buttons for eyes and wanting to sew buttons on Coraline's eyes with ... Read More

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Rating: - "Cora"...the Explorer

The intrepid CORAline Jones discovers adventure far over and above what she bargained for, but manages to save herself and five other souls from "The Devastation", when she discovers an other-ly, and ultimately terrifying, version of her world behind a bricked-up doorway in the new flat she and her family have moved into.

It's a cold English summer, a few weeks before the start of a new school year, when Coraline's work-at-home mom and dad buy a flat that is part of a larger house. ... Read More

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Rating: - "The message is this. Don't go through the door"

Nobody can drench a book in creepy, dank atmosphere like Neil Gaiman -- and it doesn't matter if it's a kid's book.

And "Coraline" -- now being released as a movie -- is no exception to Gaiman's track record. It's a haunting little dark fairy tale full of decayed apartments, dancing rats and eerie soulless doppelgangers, as well as a gutsy heroine who finds herself in this ominous "other" world.

Newly moved into an aged apartment, Coraline (not "Caroline" is bored. Her parents ... Read More

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