However, I found Coraline to be much more disturbing. The imagery is just as vivid, and the language just as good. People compare it to “Alice in Wonderland” with good reason. “Thank goodness for the British and their love of scaring the pants off of little kids. Coraline’s dark adventure with the “other” mother is chilling and paced exquisitely. For anyone older than ten, though, it’s a lovely read, and Gaiman’s narration adds a great deal. “Although this is ostensibly a children’s book, I would hesitate to let my 10-year-old listen to it because it’s really rather disturbing. At its heart, Coraline offer more depth in character and atmosphere than most children’s book on the shelf.

She will have to fight with all her wits if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.Ĭoraline is a children’s tale that is not only a great read/listen for young ones but also for older fans. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. They want to change her and never let her go. But there’s another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl.

The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom. Only it’s different…Īt first, things seem marvelous in the other flat.

The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Having said that, I loved the way Mr Gaiman read his story, the pace of his speech and his tonal inflections his performance helped to immerse me in the adventure.In Coraline’s family’s new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. I downloaded the audio version narrated by Neil Gaiman himself and found that it also differed from the book I think it was 'Americanised' as there were little word changes (flashlight said instead of the torch that was printed, distance was narrated in imperial instead of the metric that was printed, etc) and slight sentence restructures. As with all adaptations, the stop motion film varies slightly from the story in this book, however, I still found myself thoroughly engaged in Coraline Jones adventure through the door to the Other Place and even found my breath held in tension at times. I downloaded this Kindle version because I adore the film version and felt it was high time I read the book.

I'm already a fan of Neil Gaiman and have read some of his other works of adult fiction.

Coraline audio book