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Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780380807345 |
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Awards
2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella
2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella
2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella
Powells.com Staff Pick
Those of you who are tired of waiting for a new Harry Potter
novel might do well to pick up this little gem. Young Coraline finds
a secret passage that leads her to a living nightmare. This book
is scary, but not too scary, a little creepy, and very funny. Kind
of like a good old-fashioned ghost story or fairy tale. The wonderful
illustrations by Dave McKean bring Gaiman's tale vividly to life.
Recommended
by Gerry Donaghy
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
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.
Review:
"[M]agnificently creepy....[S]ome deliciously eerie descriptive writing. Not for the faint-hearted — who are mostly adults anyway — but for stouthearted kids who love a brush with the sinister: Coraline is spot on." Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
Review:
"[A]n electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons....Gaiman twines his taught tale with a menacing tone and crisp prose fraught with memorable imagery..." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
Review:
"Not since Narnia has the simple act of opening a door unlocked such a fantastic journey. And not since Alice tumbled down the rabbit hole has that journey been so splendidly strange and frightening." USA Today
Review:
"Inventive, scary, thrilling, and finally affirmative. Readers young and old will find something to startle them." Washington Post Book World
Review:
"So wonderfully whimsical that readers of all ages will hungrily devour it, word by word....Coraline is destined to become a classic." Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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"By turns creepy and funny, bittersweet and playful...can be read quickly and enjoyed deeply." San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Review:
"A modern ghost story with all the creepy trimmings....Well done." The New York Times Book Review
Review:
"As we used to say, it blew my mind...chilly, finely-wrought prose, a truly weird setting and a fable that taps into our most uncomfortable fears." Times Educational Supplement
Review:
"Coraline may be Gaiman?s most disciplined and fully controlled novel to date, and it may even end up as something of a classic." Locus
Review:
"The story is odd, strange, even slightly bizarre, but kids will hang on every word. Coraline is a character with whom they will surely identify, and they will love being frightened out of their shoes." School Library Journal
Review:
"This story provides a good edge-of-your-seat read without being terribly frightening. For those children who like to be scared, Gaiman's novel is a well-written alternative to Goosebumps." Joan Kindig, Children's Literature
Review:
"Beautifully spooky. Gaiman actually seems to understand the way children think." The Christian Science Monitor
Review:
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, rise to your feet and applaud: Coraline is the real thing." Philip Pullman, The Guardian (U.K.)
Review:
"This book will send a shiver down your spine, out through your toes, and into a taxi to the airport. It has the delicate horror of the finest fairy tales, and it is a masterpiece." Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series and co-author of Good Omens
Review:
"I think this book will nudge Alice in Wonderland out of its niche at last. It is the most splendidly original, weird, and frightening book I have read, and yet full of things children will love." Diana Wynne Jones, author of Dark Lord of Derkholm
Review:
"This book tells a fascinating and disturbing story that frightened me nearly to death. Unless you want to find yourself hiding under your bed, with your thumb in your mouth, trembling with fear and making terrible noises, I suggest that you step very slowly away from this book and go find another source of amusement, such as investigating an unsolved crime or making a small animal out of yarn." Lemony Snicket, author of The Series of Unfortunate Events
About the Author
Neil Gaiman is the author of the New York Times bestselling children's book Coraline and of the picture books The Wolves in the Walls and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, illustrated by Dave McKean. He wrote the script for the film MirrorMask and is also the author of critically acclaimed and award-winning novels and short stories for adults, as well as the Sandman series of graphic novels. Among his many awards are the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Bram Stoker Award. Originally from England, Gaiman now lives in the United States.
What Our Readers Are Saying
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Average customer rating based on 3 comments:
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Shoshana, December 21, 2007 (view all comments by Shoshana)
This is a cute enough horror/fairy tale, but I'm mystified by the awards it's received. Gaiman's setting is his usual "not here but not quite anywhere else" intersticial world whose distorted and malevolent denizens wish the protagonist no good. Like all hero's journeys, Coraline's includes guides and magical appurtenances (the latter lending a somewhat deus ex machina feel to the proceedings, but hey, it's a fairy tale). The description of the evil characters as having literal button eyes was jarring and took me out of the narrative repeatedly; they belong in a different story. True to his usual concerns, Gaiman gives us an inadequate, cool mother (it's asserted that she's emotionally attractive, but she comes off much less so than the father) and a frightening alter-mother, though it is refreshing to read something from him that is not about a sympathetic male protagonist with an unpleasant, inaccessible female love interest.
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pebbeb, February 6, 2007 (view all comments by pebbeb)
This book was my introduction to the writings of Neil Gaiman and I'm very glad to have found this book. Coraline is one of the most imaginative stories and belongs in the canon of great children's literature. It is filled with twists, nightmarish images, moments of stunning beauty and of dark surprises. This was one of those books that pulled me in and did not let me go. Like other great books, I hated for this one to end.
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slavetowhim, August 24, 2006 (view all comments by slavetowhim)
I didn't expect to find this particularly creepy, but Neil Gaiman's good at what he does. (There's one picture that I found especially unnerving.)
Young & older readers alike will find this a creepier version of Hansel & Gretel/Alice Through the Looking Glass/The Wizard of Oz.
And when the grown ups are done with this one, they might want to check out Neverwhere.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780380807345
- Illustrations by:
- McKean, Dave
- Publisher:
- HarperTrophy
- Illustrator:
- McKean, Dave
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
- Subject:
- Horror & Ghost Stories
- Subject:
- Supernatural
- Subject:
- Horror stories
- Subject:
- Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Horror
- Subject:
- Children s All Ages - Fiction - Science Fiction
- Subject:
- General Juvenile Fiction
- Copyright:
- 2003
- Edition Number:
- 1st paperback ed.
- Edition Description:
- 1st Harper Trophy ed.
- Series:
- HarperClassics
- Series Volume:
- 374 (rev.)
- Publication Date:
- August 5, 2003
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- from 3
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 162
- Dimensions:
- 7.65x5.16x.43 in. .26 lbs.
- Age Level:
- 08-UP
