Book description
There is something strange about Coraline s new home. It s not the
mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of
danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in
the tea leaves. It s the other house - the one behind the old door in
the drawing room. Another mother and father with black-button eyes and
papery skin are waiting for Coraline to join them there. And they want
her to stay with them. For ever. She knows that if she ventures through
that door, she may never come back. Sometimes funny, always creepy,
genuinely moving, this marvellous spine-chiller will appeal to readers
from nine to ninety Books for Keeps I was looking forward to Coraline
and I wasn't disappointed. In fact, I was enthralled. This is a
marvellously strange and scary book Philip Pullman, Guardian If any
writer can get the guys to read about the girls, it should be Neil
Gaiman. Coraline is a dreamlike adventure. For all its gripping
nightmare imagery, this is actually a conventional fairy story with a
moral Daily Telegraph There is something strange about Coraline s new
home. It s not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching
her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new
neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It s the other house - the one
behind the old door in the drawing room. Another mother and father with
black-button eyes and papery skin are waiting for Coraline to join them
there. And they want her to stay with them. For ever. She knows that if
she ventures through that door, she may never come back.
