![]() ![]() "I'm your other mother," announces a woman who looks like Coraline's mother, except "her eyes were big black buttons." Coraline eventually makes it back to her real home only to find that her parents are missing-they're trapped in the shadowy other world, of course, and it's up to their scrappy daughter to save them. Through the door, she travels a dark corridor (which smells "like something very old and very slow") into a world that eerily mimics her own, but with sinister differences. But something about the door attracts the girl, and when she later unlocks it herself, the bricks have disappeared. Her mother unlocks it to reveal that it leads nowhere: "When they turned the house into flats, they simply bricked it up," her mother explains. British novelist Gaiman ( American Gods Stardust) and his long-time accomplice McKean (collaborators on a number of Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels as well as The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish) spin an electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons.Īfter Coraline and her parents move into an old house, Coraline asks her mother about a mysterious locked door. ![]()
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