Coraline (AER)
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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.
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Awards for Coraline (AER) |
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New York Public Library's "One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing"
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Publishers Weekly Best Book
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School Library Journal Best Book
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Amazon.com Editors’ Choice
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Bulletin Blue Ribbon (The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)
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Book Sense 76 Pick
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New York Public Library's "One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing"
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Amazon.com Editors’ Choice
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Publishers Weekly Best Book
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Bulletin Blue Ribbon (The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)
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School Library Journal Best Book
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Book Sense 76 Pick
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ALA Notable Children’s Book
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ALA Best Book for Young Adults
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New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
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IRA/CBC Children's Choice
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Child Magazine Best Book of the Year
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award Masterlist (Vermont)
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Hugo Award for Best Novella
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Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers
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Amazon.com Editors’ Choice
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Publishers Weekly Best Book
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Bulletin Blue Ribbon (The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)
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School Library Journal Best Book
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Book Sense 76 Pick
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ALA Notable Children’s Book
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ALA Best Book for Young Adults
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New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
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IRA/CBC Children's Choice
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Child Magazine Best Book of the Year
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award Masterlist (Vermont)
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Hugo Award for Best Novella
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Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers
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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.”
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USA Today
“Gaiman’s tale is inventive, scary, thrilling and finally affirmative. Readers young and old will find something to startle them.”
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Washington Post Book World
“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.”
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Times Educational Supplement
“I was enthralled. This is a marvellously strange and scary book. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, rise to your feet and applaud: Coraline is the real thing.”
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Philip Pullman, The Guardian
“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.”
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Diana Wynne Jones
“The most splendidly original, weird, and frightening book I have read, and yet full of things children will love.”
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Diana Wynne Jones
“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.”
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Terry Pratchett
“It has the delicate horror of the finest fairy tales, and it is a masterpiece.”
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Terry Pratchett
“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.”
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Lemony Snicket
“A magnificently creepy story…shows a sure sense of a child’s fears—and a child’s ability to overcome those fears…deliciously eerie…for stouthearted kids who love a brush with the sinister, Coraline is spot on.”
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Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“A magnificently creepy story…for stouthearted kids who love a brush with the sinister, Coraline is spot on.”
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Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“Coraline is by turns creepy and funny, bittersweet and playful. Gaiman expertly walks the tightrope between fantasy and realism. McKean’s drawings succinctly capture the whimsical and disturbing aspects of the tale…a book that can be read quickly and enjoyed deeply, one likely to lure many readers back for a second or third go-round.”
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San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
“By turns creepy and funny, bittersweet and playful…can be read quickly and enjoyed deeply.”
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San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
“An electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons…Gaiman twines his taut tale with a menacing tone and crisp prose fraught with memorable imagery, yet keeps the narrative just this side of terrifying…a real bedtime-buster.”
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Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“An electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons.”
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Publishers Weekly (starred 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.”
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Locus
“ Walk through the door and you’ll believe in love, magic, and the power of good over evil.”
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USA Today
“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. This is just right for all those requests for a scary book.”
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School Library Journal (starred review)
“So wonderfully whimsical that readers of all ages will hungrily devour it, word by word…Coraline is destined to become a classic.
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Globe and Mail (Toronto)
“So wonderfully whimsical that readers of all ages will hungrily devour itCoraline is destined to become a classic.
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Globe and Mail (Toronto)
“Chilly, finely-wrought prose, a truly weird setting and a fable that taps into our most uncomfortable fears.”
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Times Educational Supplement
“A modern ghost story with all the creepy trimmings…Well done.”
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New York Times Book Review
“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, rise to your feet and applaud: Coraline is the real thing.”
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Philip Pullman, The Guardian
“A deliciously scary book that we loved reading together as a family. Coraline herself is delightfully authentic in her boldness and determination. The magical elements are surprising and new, and the evil that she has to fight is disturbing in ways that matter.”
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Orson Scott Card
“A deliciously scary book that we loved reading together as a family.”
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Orson Scott Card
“Gaiman’s pacing is superb, and he steers the tension of the tale with a deft and practiced narrative touch.”
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Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“A frighteningly realistic fantasy. Lean crisp prose adds to the suspense and propels the story, and the eerie black-and-white illustrations by Dave McKean heighten the nightmarish quality of the tale.”
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Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
“The danger is convincingly dangerous, the heroine is convincingly brave, and the whirlwind denouement will leave readers bemused but elated and slightly breathless.”
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Horn Book Magazine
“Beautifully spooky. Gaiman actually seems to understand the way children think. And his writing has the pared-down elegance of the best fairy tales. Young adults will enjoy the book’s creepy humor and its unsettling exploration of what we really want and need from the people who love us.”
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Christian Science Monitor
“Beautifully spooky. Gaiman actually seems to understand the way children think. ”
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Christian Science Monitor
“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. Walk through the door and you’ll believe in love, magic, and the power of good over evil.”
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USA Today
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