AnyBook4Less.com
Find the Best Price on the Web
Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Developed by Fintix
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |  
 
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money

Coraline

Please fill out form in order to compare prices
Title: Coraline
by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean
ISBN: 0-380-80734-3
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $5.99
Your Country
Currency
Delivery
Include Used Books
Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble
Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 4.34 (158 reviews)

Customer Reviews

Rating: 5
Summary: A Smart, Funny, Scary Choice for All Ages
Comment: Coraline is a smart, polite, and likeable little girl. When she moves into a large house with her parents, she entertains herself by exploring. When she discovers a locked door, sensible Coraline asks about it, and her mother opens it to reveal a brick wall and explains that it is left from when the house was divided into apartments.

When the brick wall vanishes one day, Coraline discovers another realm. It's a realm where the cat can talk, where dogs attend theater performances and eat chocolates, and where she enters the home of her Other Mother and Other Father, who want Coraline to stay with them forever and ever. Coraline opts to go back home, but she discovers that her mother and father are missing, trapped inside the world of the Other Parents.

Coraline explains, as she ventures back through the passageway to rescue her parents, that "when you're scared, but you still do it anyway, that's brave."

This book draws the reader into a world that is wiity, entertaining, and delightfully creepy. Dave McKean's black-and-white illustrations are appropriately eerie and add an extra dimension to the text. This haunting tale is an excellent choice for the reader of scary stories who wants something that will stay in the shadowy corners of the mind long afterward.

Rating: 4
Summary: A Wonderfully Witty Spooky Tale!
Comment: I feel in love with Neil Gaiman's writing with Neverwhere, and have read most of his books since then. While I was in the bookstore last night I saw this book, and even though it is for ages 8 and up, I thought, "Why Not", and purchased it. I am glad I did, it was a great story. I finished a more lengthy novel late last night and picked this up as some light reading before I started yet another lengthy novel, and I was pleasantly rewarded. This story about a young girl Coraline and her adventures in exploring lead her into some tough spots, but along the way we have a great entertaining ride, that IS spooky at times (I know when I was 8 I would have been scared, so maybe it would be better suited for children a little older), and wonderfully witty! I love the way Neil Gaiman writes, and especially the dialogues between characters, they seem to have such a great report that many books, young adult and adult alike, lack. The eerie illustrations by Dave McKean are well suited for this book, and added a little excitement as I quickly turned though the pages to see what would become of Coraline!

Rating: 5
Summary: Trippy
Comment: I only slept two hours the night I read "Coraline." The first few hours I read and finished the book; the next couple hours I couldn't sleep, reveling in the creative world this book took me too that no other book has. There was not a cliche anywhere: not in story, language, mood, characters. Instead we have scuttling hands, fortune-telling mice, button eyes, and worlds disolving into nothingness on the outskirts.

The unflappability of the young girl protagonists threatens to make the book too low key (as some reviewers have accused), but instead, I think it adds to the odd, vague tone. Also accurate in the negative reviews is their observation that there's a lack of background for this world's existence and for the characters in it. I respond, hallelejah. How many thousands of books are ruined by too much exposition. This book gets to the dark, otherworldly story pronto. Its world is assumed to exist and needs no justification.

Stephen King has never creeped me out like this. I'm reading this book to my seven year old daughter (against the advice of my wife) and loaning it to my tough guy, non-reading friend.

Similar Books:

Title: The Wolves in the Walls
by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean
ISBN: 038097827X
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003
List Price(USD): $16.99
Title: The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish
by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean
ISBN: 1565041992
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc.
Pub. Date: November, 1998
List Price(USD): $14.99
Title: Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman
ISBN: 0380789019
Publisher: Avon
Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998
List Price(USD): $7.99
Title: Harlequin Valentine
by Neil Gaiman, John Bolton
ISBN: 156971620X
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date: January, 2002
List Price(USD): $10.95
Title: stardust
by Neil Gaiman
ISBN: 0060934719
Publisher: Perennial
Pub. Date: 19 June, 2001
List Price(USD): $13.00

Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!

Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments

Powered by Apache