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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.
Bookshop_Lady: "Coraline" is creepy and might be too creepy for some kids. "The Thirteen Clocks" has a few creepy moments but overall is a light-hearted fairy tale. They're very different books and tell very different stories. But for all that, I believe older children/young teens who enjoy one of these books will probably enjoy both.… (mais)
reading_fox: Slightly older YA, and a full novel. But the same theme, children move into a new place and discover a creepy 'fairy world' thats hard to escape.
BookshelfMonstrosity: Readers will savor the tension of both horror stories involving characters seeking ways to put souls to rest. Each story explores the distinctions between fantasy and reality in a deliciously creepy way.
BookshelfMonstrosity: Smart, determined girls journey to darkly magical worlds in order to rescue a parent in these original and dazzling fairy tales constructed with beautiful imagery and intricate storylines.
I really enjoyed this book. Very much like the movie was and that made me happy as I love the movie. What an imaginative story and if you've never seen the movie see it or read this book. ( )
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." ( )
This is the second time I listened to this story, and it improved on the re-reading. Coraline has affectionate, but busy, parents who work from home, and on gray days when she has read all her books and played with all her toys and seen all the videos, and she is bored and restless, they won't leave off working to play with her. Also, her dad keeps making meals from recipes with gross things like spices and sauces. Then she discovers that she has an Other Mother in a mirror world behind a bricked up door, who will keep her endlessly entertained and spend time with her and make pizza for her. There's just one little thing...
Coraline is a wonderful character, smart and brave and determined, but also with very human wants and weaknesses. But it is Gaiman's writing, and his voice on the audio, that makes this story special. It's a scary little kid's what-if story that adults can connect with, because we have those human wants and weaknesses, too.
Audiobook, borrowed from my public library, read by the author. ( )
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. --G.K. Chesterson
Dedicatória
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I started this for Holly, I finished it for Maddy.
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Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house.
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We are small but we are many/ We are many we are small/ We were here before you rose/ We will be here when you fall
Coraline was woken by the midmorning sun, full on her face. For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure who she was. It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.
Coraline sighed. 'You really don't understand, do you?' she said. 'I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn't mean anything. What then?
The pale figues pulsed faintly; she could imagine that they were nothing more than afterimages, like the glow left by a bright light in you eyes, after the lights go out.
There was something irritatingly self-centered about the cat, Coraline decided. As if it were, in its opinion, the only thing in any world or place that could possibly be of any importance.
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As the first stars came out Coraline finally allowed herself to drift into sleep, while the gentle upstairs music of the mouse circus spilled out onto the warm evening air, telling the world that the summer was almost done.
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.
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I really enjoyed this book. Very much like the movie was and that made me happy as I love the movie.
What an imaginative story and if you've never seen the movie see it or read this book. (