Coraline

Description

The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring.... In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. 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. Only it's different. At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. 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. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. 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. Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages. I.......Page 5 II.......Page 10 III.......Page 16 IV.......Page 22 V.......Page 30 VI.......Page 39 VII.......Page 46 VIII.......Page 51 IX.......Page 58 X.......Page 63 XI.......Page 69 XII.......Page 75 XIII.......Page 80 INTRODUCTION......Page 88 WHY I WROTE CORALINE......Page 90 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT CORALINE......Page 93 A NOTE ON WORKING WITH DAVE McKEAN......Page 95