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This flat contains 14 rooms and 28 windows like ordinary big flats. Gaiman actually seems to understand the way children think.Coraline and her family are newly shifted into a new area they bought a massive flat. “The most splendidly original, weird, and frightening book I have read, and yet full of things children will love.”.“It has the delicate horror of the finest fairy tales, and it is a masterpiece.”.“By turns creepy and funny, bittersweet and playful can be read quickly and enjoyed deeply.”.” An electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons.”.” A magnificently creepy story for stouthearted kids who love a brush with the sinister, Coraline is spot on.”.

“This delightful, funny, haunting, scary as heck, fairy-tale novel is about as fine as they come.

And, like Roald Dahl’s work, it is delicious. Neil Gaiman’s Coraline is far darker, far stranger, playing on our deepest fears.

“Now, if you’re thinking fondly of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, you’re on the wrong track.

Readers will be well advised to read Gaiman’s books while the sun is shining. Gaiman won the 2009 Newbery Medal for the even more suspenseful THE GRAVEYARD BOOK. Readers will love comparing the movie and the new graphic novel version with the original book. Whew! What a suspenseful book for the not-too-faint-of-heart, with sinister characters, adults who don't or won't listen or help, missing parents, voices in the dark, lots of rats, and an unflappable heroine. "Of course you do," says the other mother, her black button eyes gleaming. "I didn't know I had another mother," Coraline says.

"We've been waiting for you for a long time," he says. Her dark red fingernails are curved and sharp. She looks like her mother, only her skin is as white as paper. She hears a voice coming from the kitchen. Down a dark, musty hallway, she discovers an apartment, just like her own. Nevertheless, she unlocks that wooden door to discover that the brick wall behind it has vanished. "You know, Caroline," they say to Coraline, "You are in terrible danger." They read her tea leaves from her china cup. Don't go through the door." Her other neighbors, old and round former actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, invite her in for a cup of tea. The next day, the crazy old man from upstairs-he says he's training a mouse circus in his apartment-calls to her. They sing to her in high, whiney voices: "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. At night, she dreams of black shadows that gather together under the moon. Behind the big, brown, carved wooden door at the far corner of the drawing room is a wall of bricks.

Coraline has just moved with her parents to a flat in a big old house where the other tenants are eccentric and odd.