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Coraline
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Coraline, a young girl, comes into a kind of parallel world when walking through a bricked door. On the other side she meets other parents than her own. Things get scary and complicated when her real parents are missing. Where are they gone? What about the mirror? Coraline get her parents back and what's the role of the black cat and the mouse circus? The author wrote a nice book for kids or early youth. There are also fine illustrations inside. Compliments to the author's imaginary vision and the great ideas. A very unusual haunted house story. Sometimes I was also reminded on Alice in Wonderland. In the end I felt a bit too old for that kind of literature but it was well done. A youth might have given four or five stars...
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Sep 11, 2020 09:21PM
There are differences between book and movie and something to be said for both versions. Depends on what you like. Either way, Coraline is a great story.
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The movie (BRILLIANT stop-action animation) had a few differences, including a character who wasn't in the book (Wybe) . Neil Gaiman was heard to say he wished he had thought of that character. Below are a couple of Coraline trailers.
Sue wrote: "Definitely for the younger among us. My kids loved it. But they’ve grown now!"
I think the Coraline in the book is younger than the Coraline in the movie. By a few years anyway.
I think the Coraline in the book is younger than the Coraline in the movie. By a few years anyway.