Coraline is putatively aimed at a younger market, the eight and up crowd, but that's no reason for an adult not to sneak into the children's section and pick it up anyway.Ĭoraline Jones and her family have just moved into a flat in a big, old house. Read moreĪll of Gaiman's novels so far have been delightful, and this one is no exception. 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.
And matters get even more surreal for Coraline when her "other" parents seem reluctant to let her leave.In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. It's a twisted version of her world that is familiar, and yet sinister. Only they have buttons for eyes and seem more possessive than normal. Strangest of all, her mum and dad are there too. The picture hanging on the wall is the same. The carpet and wallpaper are the same as in her flat. Stepping inside, the place beyond has an eerie familiarity about it.
This time, however, there is a dark hallway in front of her. Days later, after exploring the rest of the house and garden, Coraline returns to the same mysterious door and opens it again. Disappointingly, it opens onto a brick wall. Curiosity runs riot in Coraline's mind and she unlocks the door to see what lies behind it. Shortly after moving into an old house Coraline discovers a big, carved, brown wooden door at the far corner of the drawing room. Coraline has been made into an animated feature film directed by Henry Selick, director of Tim Burton�s The Nightmare Before Christmas, with a cast including Teri Hatcher, Ian McShane, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Dakota Fanning.
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