Locating the star, he discovers it is no meteorite but a young woman, Yvaine. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, with caring parents and all her dreams coming true. It's easier to do that if the protagonist is a child. The world she discovers is like her own but different in a way that is both dark and disturbing. From the outside Anna's sister, Elsa looks poised, regal and reserved, but in reality, she lives in fear as she wrestles with a mighty secret-she was born with the power to create ice and snow. Or at least kick the rats in the face.
Of course, the next time we got into the car, he wanted to hear the rest, so although frightening, it is still an involving story. Just get unlimited lives and collect all the fireflies and then run to Wybie. Four stars for the book, and five stars for Gaiman??? It's a twisted version of her world that is familiar, and yet sinister. An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. Wonderfully spooky and evocative -- and delightfully scary but not too scary. No adult situations or language, but quite a bit of creepy characters and events, the type that can cause bad dreams.
And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. They want to change her and never let her go. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. Coraline is smart and resourceful for a young girl her age and manages to come up with a pretty clever way to win the game, save the day and eliminate the threat of the villainous hand! The picture hanging on the wall is the same. The book was strange without being too scarey. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew. Curiosity runs riot in Coraline's mind and she unlocks the door to see what lies behind it.
Also the use of american vocabulary in a british story is jarring. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. When the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay in her world forever, the girl refuses and finds that the alternate reality where she is trapped is only a trick to lure her. In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. So, if you have a particularly sensitive child, I would be careful with this book, but otherwise, I highly recommend it.
Thinking its one of Mr. This is just right for all those requests for a scary book. After this you must complete a series of miscellaneous chores for her father. However, Gaiman himself reads the book, and his clean, measured performance brings it to life in an unforgettable way. Coraline is their only hope of rescue.
Out in the forest Odd encounters a bear, a fox, and an eagle - three creatures with a strange story to tell. But with its subtle allusions and surprise ending, this mystery hints that the real fun in solving this case lies in imagining all the details that Gaiman doesn't reveal, and challenges listeners to be detectives themselves. Described by some as the new Alice in Wonderland, Coraline is actually more bizarre than that, much more frightening and its modest length definitely adds to the book's undiluted potency. Lovecraft's most famous creations--Cthulhu, Shoggoths, Deep Ones, Elder Things, Yog-Sothoth, and more--appear in all their terrifying glory. Kiernan, Karl Edward Wagner, Elizabeth Bear, and Nick Mamatas. As an adult listener, I thought it was fairly juvenile but, on the other hand, I think it would be too dark or intense for many children.
Young enough that you can immediately like them and want them to win, but old enough that they aren't completely helpless making their victory unbelievable. But, the story, which is about a girl's parents who are kidnapped by a fairy tale type character and replaced with strange reproductions, is pretty dark, and scary enough that my 9 year old asked if we could turn it off for a while at one point. Thirteen of the doors open and close. When Coraline does all her tasks her parents asked her to do, she goes to meet her neighbors, , and and. A very enjoyable book but the reader sounds a bit robotic. 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.
A dark Narnia and Alice in Wonderland. After the ladies tell her about an old well not far from the house grounds, Coraline decides to find it by using a dowsing rod. Description Anna, a fearless optimist, sets off on an epic journey - teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven - to find her sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Her mounting emotions trigger the magic, accidentally setting off an eternal winter that she can't stop. Some are plainly odd, others disturbingly spooky and together they combine to form an immensely readable story. This book gives me hope that there are many fine gems out there waiting to be found.
Listen by yourself before sharing with younger ones, but don't ignore it, it is very entertaining. Shortly after moving into an old house with strange tenants above and below, Coraline discovers a big, carved, brown wooden door at the far corner of the drawing room. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales. This story, as is typical of Neil Gaiman, was atmospheric, lyrical and always imaginative. There was no need to worry. I downloaded this Kindle version because I adore the film version and felt it was high time I read the book.