Coraline (AER) by Neil Gaiman, Illustrated by Dave McKean
HarperTeen — Your World. Your Books.
About The Book
| | More

Coraline (AER)


Price: $4.99
On Sale: 7/9/2002
Formats:     E-Book | Paperback | CD Audio Book | Downloadable Audio


Book 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.


Author Extras
Reading Guides:

Awards for Coraline (AER)

  • New York Public Library's "One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing"
  • Publishers Weekly Best Book
  • School Library Journal Best Book
  • Amazon.com Editors’ Choice
  • Bulletin Blue Ribbon (The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)
  • Book Sense 76 Pick
Critical Praise for Coraline (AER)

“Not since four English schoolchildren walked through a wardrobe and discovered the magical land of 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…You don’t have to be a kid to appreciate the spell Gaiman casts in the suspenseful Coraline. Walk through the door and you’ll believe in love, magic, and the power of good over evil.”
— USA Today

ISBN: ; ISBN10: 123456789X; Imprint: ; On Sale: 8/8/2005; Format: stub FormatTitle0; Pages: 128; Category: Stub Cat Disp Cat; Ages: 5 to 10

Books by Neil Gaiman
Stardust Stardust
Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall,...



Member Benefit
AuthorTracker
Don't miss your favorite author's next book.

 Sign up for Neil Gaiman's AuthorTracker

 Sign up for Dave McKean's AuthorTracker
What's Hot