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Title: Coraline Author: Neil Gaiman Format: Trade Paperbound |
If you are a geek like I am, and you have kids, get them Coraline. Neil Gaiman has taken everything I loved about American Gods and then made it for kids. Coraline, the little warrior of our tale, is an explorer. She wants to find everything that she can; the deep well in the backyard, the creaky hallways and attic of her new home, and most importantly, the door. This door is locked by a dark black key and usually leads into a wall. The key is much, much colder then all of the other keys on the same key ring. When Coraline opens the door one day when her parents aren’t home, the door leads down a new hallway, one she hasn’t explored before. Through the long hall she comes into her kitchen, the kitchen that she just left. In the second kitchen are her parents, but they have buttons for eyes. They say they are her “other” parents. They want her to stay, and if she won’t, then they will just have to steal her real parents. Coraline proves to those that follow the story that being smart is much better then being big, that you can be much more clever then the adults.
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