When Coraline explores her new home, she steps through a door and into another house just like her own - except that things aren't quite as they seem. There's another mother and another father in this house and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. Coraline must use all of her wits and every ounce of courage in order to save herself and return home but will she escape and will life ever be the same again? Elsewhere in this collection, a sinister jack-in-the-box haunts the lives of the children who ever owned it, a stray cat does nightly battle to protect his adopted family, and a boy raised in a graveyard confronts the much more troubled world of the living. From the scary to the whimsical, the fantastical to the humorous, Coraline & Other Stories is a journey into the dark, magical world of Neil Gaiman.
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'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 'Sometimes funny, always creepy, genuinely moving, this marvellous spine-chiller will appeal to readers from nine to ninety' Books for Keeps 'If any writer can get the guys to read about the girls, it should be Neil Gaiman. His new novel Coraline is a dreamlike adventure' Daily Telegraph 'This book will send a shiver down your spine, out through your shoes and into a taxi to the airport. It has the delicate horror of the finest fairy tales, and it is a masterpiece. And you will never think about buttons in quite the same way again' Terry Pratchett
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Neil Gaiman is the multi-award-winning and bestselling author of Stardust, also a major motion film. Coraline was Neil's first novel for young adults. Neil is British and lives in the USA.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By D. Lewis
Format:Paperback
BEWARE - if you own M is for Magic - Do NOT waste your money on this book - the stories are EXACTLY the same, in exactly the same order - but with the Coraline story at the start.
Having said that, apart from 'The Witches Headstone' which is a chapter from 'The Graveyard Book' book, Gaiman's other books, 'Fragile Things' and 'Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions' also contain (From Fragile) October In The Chair;Instructions;How To Talk To Girls At Parties; Sunbird; (From Smoke & Mirrors) Chilvary;The Price;Troll Bridge; Don't Ask Jack.
The quality of the stories is not up for debate, Gaiman tells a good tale, often retelling a tale you know, without it being obvious.
The sad bit is that publishers duplicate so many stories across different books and leave the reader feeling slightly cheated - which with Gaiman's writing we should not. I like the slightly scary edge to the stories, they remind me of my childhood ghost stories I read and enjoyed. If your child has an imagination and zest for reading do not deprive them of the opportunity to be a little scared, later in life they will be able to laugh whilst others tremble.
Only 4 stars because of the duplicated stories I already have in the other Gaiman books.
Having said that, apart from 'The Witches Headstone' which is a chapter from 'The Graveyard Book' book, Gaiman's other books, 'Fragile Things' and 'Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions' also contain (From Fragile) October In The Chair;Instructions;How To Talk To Girls At Parties; Sunbird; (From Smoke & Mirrors) Chilvary;The Price;Troll Bridge; Don't Ask Jack.
The quality of the stories is not up for debate, Gaiman tells a good tale, often retelling a tale you know, without it being obvious.
The sad bit is that publishers duplicate so many stories across different books and leave the reader feeling slightly cheated - which with Gaiman's writing we should not. I like the slightly scary edge to the stories, they remind me of my childhood ghost stories I read and enjoyed. If your child has an imagination and zest for reading do not deprive them of the opportunity to be a little scared, later in life they will be able to laugh whilst others tremble.
Only 4 stars because of the duplicated stories I already have in the other Gaiman books.
By KME
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I actually decided to read this book after seeing the film as I wanted to read it as the story was intended (whilst I do enjoy the film). I got it purely for Coraline, which was fantastic to read. I absolutely love how it's geared at children yet doesn't play down to a child's intelligence and ability to understand concepts, etc, whilst remaining easy to read. It is also written in such a way as making it enjoyable for adults as well.
I admit, after finishing Coraline with the prospect of reading the others (I flicked through the stories and read a few lines of each, deciding that I really didn't think I would enjoy them - going through a phase of classics geared at the younger generation started by reading Alice in Wonderland) knowing they were more for adult readers, I put it down for a bit. However, when I went back to it to give it a chance, I thoroughly enjoyed each and every other story. The very subtle wit and easy, uncomplicated way of writing that Neil has made it one of the most enjoyable reads I have had in a long time. He has a very unusual imagination and has the ability to place normality and normal people into situations that are funny and even absurd, and the stories in which he writes in first person as though genuinely talking about himself are often twisted and written as such that you can't decide whether he actually believes in the events themselves or not.
I am now awaiting the arrival of The Graveyard Book and Neverwhere and am thoroughly looking forward to reading them. So pleased with the discovery of Neil Gaiman.
I admit, after finishing Coraline with the prospect of reading the others (I flicked through the stories and read a few lines of each, deciding that I really didn't think I would enjoy them - going through a phase of classics geared at the younger generation started by reading Alice in Wonderland) knowing they were more for adult readers, I put it down for a bit. However, when I went back to it to give it a chance, I thoroughly enjoyed each and every other story. The very subtle wit and easy, uncomplicated way of writing that Neil has made it one of the most enjoyable reads I have had in a long time. He has a very unusual imagination and has the ability to place normality and normal people into situations that are funny and even absurd, and the stories in which he writes in first person as though genuinely talking about himself are often twisted and written as such that you can't decide whether he actually believes in the events themselves or not.
I am now awaiting the arrival of The Graveyard Book and Neverwhere and am thoroughly looking forward to reading them. So pleased with the discovery of Neil Gaiman.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I think that this book is a good book. It has a collection of stories, many of them short, but the main story, Coraline, is easily the longest. When I read this book, I realized how different the book Coraline is to the film of it.
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