Kirsten's review
Coraline (P.S.)
by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author!)
Kirsten's review
Coraline (P.S.) by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author!)
Kirsten's review
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I decided to revisit it after I got into a discussion on the LJ community 50bookchallenge about whether it was appropriate for younger (8-10 year old) readers. My feeling was that it was a pretty creepy book, but that I'd be comfortable handing it to a kid whose reading level was fairly mature. After the discussion, I wanted to go back and see if my original impressions were still accurate.
I think they are. This book has some super creepy moments, and I probably wouldn't recommend it to kids who are scared easily and who don't enjoy being scared. But to me, the scariness never becomes unmanageable, and on this re-read I think I figured out why. No matter how dark and scary things get, there's never really any doubt that Coraline is going to make it out of this ok. Why? Because Coraline never doubts it. She never panics. She ends up in a terrifying situation and actually thinks to herself (I'm paraphrasing), "Ok, I could either panic and run around until this thing catches me, ...more
I think they are. This book has some super creepy moments, and I probably wouldn't recommend it to kids who are scared easily and who don't enjoy being scared. But to me, the scariness never becomes unmanageable, and on this re-read I think I figured out why. No matter how dark and scary things get, there's never really any doubt that Coraline is going to make it out of this ok. Why? Because Coraline never doubts it. She never panics. She ends up in a terrifying situation and actually thinks to herself (I'm paraphrasing), "Ok, I could either panic and run around until this thing catches me, ...more
