Coraline in Crazy Challenge Connection

Sep 17, 2012 Chaitra rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: child-or-teenage-protagonist, childrens-fiction, fantasy, horror, made-into-a-movie, read-before-2012, british-literature, supernatural, nebula-winners, paranormal

Yikes. This is no book I would give my kid (imaginary for now) to read. Not unless I want to deal with their nightmares.

Coraline is the story of a girl named Coraline. Her parents are too busy even though they work from home. She spends her time bothering her neighbors, who she constantly has to correct. "It's Coraline", she says, when they call her Caroline. She likes exploring and that keeps her busy, until one rainy day she's forced to stay in. But, what does she find? There's a locked door ...more

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Nov 03, 2016 Jamie (TheRebelliousReader) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: childrens-and-middle-grade, 5-stars, favorites-five-stars-and-beyond, comfort-read, dark, fantasy, stand-alone, fantastic-heroine, 2016, from-my-shelf

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

5 stars. I haven't read a children's book in a very, very long time but I had to read this because it's Neil Gaiman (who I'm currently obsessing over). I have no regrets, this was pretty freaking great! I enjoyed this immensely from beginning to end and I definitely get why it's so critically praised.

First and foremost, this was creepy as hell especially for a ki ...more

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Jan 27, 2014 Nancy rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, children, horror

Very short read. Definitely had a creepy side, I really enjoyed that it was told from a child's perspective ...more

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Oct 01, 2013 Linda C rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: european, fantasy, young-adult, horror

Coraline and her parents buy a flat in an old house. A pair of retired actresses live in the basement flat and an old man who says he is training mice for a circus act lives in the attic flat. The fourth flat is still for sale and the connecting door between Coraline's and it is bricked up and locked. After hearing some mysterious noises one night she unlocks the door to find the wall missing and enters an apartment that is like hers but not quite.
There is another mother and father there who wa ...more

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