Coraline
In Neil Gaiman's bestselling adult fantasies, telling the difference between
reality and illusion can sometimes mean your soul. With Coraline, the author
of American Gods develops this favorite theme for a younger audience, taking
us through a deliciously frightening door to an "other," harrowing world.
Coraline's often wondered what's behind the locked door in the drawing room.
It reveals only a brick wall when she finally opens it, but when she tries
again later, a passageway mysteriously appears. Coraline is surprised to
find a flat decorated exactly like her own, but strangely different. And
when she finds her "other" parents in this alternate world, they are much
more interesting despite their creepy black button eyes. When they make it
clear, however, that they want to make her theirs forever, Coraline begins
a nightmarish game to rescue her real parents and three children imprisoned
in a mirror. With only a bored-through stone and an aloof cat to help,
Coraline confronts this harrowing task of escaping these monstrous creatures.
Gaiman has delivered a wonderfully chilling novel, subtle yet intense on many
levels. The line between pleasant and horrible is often blurred until what's
what becomes suddenly clear, and like Coraline, we resist leaving this strange
world until we're hooked. Unnerving drawings also cast a dark shadow over the
book's eerie atmosphere, which is only heightened by simple, hair-raising text.
Already compared to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and suited for readers of
all ages, Coraline is otherworldly storytelling at its best.
Neverwhere
When Richard Mayhew stops one day to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London
sidewalk, his life is forever altered, for he finds himself propelled into an
alternate reality that exists in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and
abandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has
landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere
The Graveyard Book
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into
a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise
him as one of their own.
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. 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. There are dangers and adventures in the
graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under
attack from the man Jack.who has already killed Bod's family...
Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel
for the audience that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic
Coraline. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures,
The Graveyard Book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.
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