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Work InformationCoraline by Neil Gaiman (2002)
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Good thing I didn't read this as a child, or it would have scared me witless. I would not consider myself to have been a brave child, by any stretch of language, and above all, I loathed being scared. I remember watching the film when it first came out, and I found it particularly unsettling, and I was eleven then. I'm sure a great deal of people can relate to the dark fantasies presented in this novel in some way or form, I know I can. So vigorous in a child's imagination are the shadowed recesses of one's home, and what lies beyond what we can't see. As an adult, I must confess, I just managed to pull through this one without scurrying under the covers. Mission accomplished (nervous sigh). ( ) This taps into the inquisitiveness that comes upon us whenever we find a locked or blocked up doorway - what;s behind that, where does that go. In Coraline's case, it goes into a parallel universe that looks a lot liker her own home, but is very different in nature. When she explores through the door for the first time she comes home to find her parents missing. They are in the mirror in the hallway, but where are the really? Coraline ventured back through the doorway and into the parallel world to find them. Along the way she finds other trapped individuals and a talking cat that helps her along the way. It's an inventive journey through to a parallel world. In a way, this kind of reminded me of [b: Skellig|24271|Skellig (Skellig, #1)|David Almond|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320460285s/24271.jpg|960] because they're both short novels about supernaturally mature children encountering supernatural strangers (though in Skellig the stranger isn't scary). It sort of seemed to me like the whole point of the book was to flesh out or illustrate the epigraph, which says something like, "Fairy tales are not important because they tell us dragons exist. They're important because they tell us dragons can be beaten."
A modern ghost story with all the creepy trimmings... Well done. Belongs to Publisher SeriesIs contained inHas the adaptationIs abridged inInspiredAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others. No library descriptions found. |
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