|
nancy@nancykeane.com
|
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews |
Gaiman,
Neil
CORALINE
New York : HarperCollins,
2002
IL YA
ISBN 0060504544
|
| Coraline
is bored. Her parents are working from home now but that means they
have little time to spend with her. The have recently moved into
a new home so Coraline goes exploring. They actually have purchased
one apartment in a large house so Coraline not only explores the house
but also gets to meet the neighbors. In one apartment live a pair
of elderly sisters. They used to be actresses and are on the eccentric
side. Another apartment is owned by a strange old man who tells Coraline
that he is training mice to dance. Coraline has her doubts about
this. No one has ever seen the mice. The last apartment is
empty. Mother says they are trying to find someone to live there.
There is a door that connects Coraline's apartment with the empty apartment.
When they open the door, they find a brick wall. But is it really
a brick wall? If so, how did it open from the other side one night?
And where are the voices coming from? When Coraline is alone one
afternoon, she takes the key and opens the door. No longer is there
a brick wall. The door opens on a large apartment just like their's.
As a matter of fact, Coraline's mother is making dinner in the other apartment.
At least it looks like Coraline's mother until she turns around. |
|
SUBJECTS:
Supernatural -- Fiction. |
© 
Permission is granted for the
noncommercial duplication and use of this resource, provided it is substantially
unchanged from its present form and appropriate credit is given.
|
