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Coraline

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Coraline by Neil Gaiman, and

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By Neil Gaiman, and and,

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13 Dec 2024

Amazing read . Interesting story with great characters.

17 Jan 2024

I love this book it is scary

18 Jul 2023

a thrilling and chilling adventure! Keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole book

12 Jul 2022

j.delefane@stb.academy

The book highlights the strange connections we have with family, and how much we will put up with. The strange characters can make the writing a bit earie and hard to follow if being read by MY, but Coraline's bravery shines through along with her strength.

15 Dec 2021

Coraline is amazing I was screaming when I found out what was happening My mum told me to stop and I begged because I wanted to to the end

09 Sep 2021

Bit scary for an 8 year old

22 Aug 2021

My childhood favourite, excellent in all areas.

29 Jul 2021

I thought the step mother was super creepy when you found out her truth but the determination that Coraline had was inspirational.

20 Jul 2021

After reading this book I decide that to give it a 4 because I like the dark storyline and enjoyed reading it!
I thought the layout as an adult cartoon was really interesting and a different way to read a story as the pictures helped you to see what the author was describing.
I throughly recommend this book but only if you don’t scare easily!

10 May 2021

A wonderful introduction to horror for a child.

14 Dec 2020

Extraordinary but a little bit frightening too this book will make you shiver!

I liked coraline because she was very brave and adventurous.

I would recommend it to someone else because it gives you the shivers and sometimes it is fun to have a little bit of a horrifying book.

10 Oct 2020

This book was weird and wonderful. It has all the creepy happenings that you would expect from Neil Gaiman and from the knowledge of this book. It had me on the edge throughout the story and brought me into the world of the 'other mother'.

02 Oct 2020

I was a bit bored by the description and the vocabulary used. Gaiman usually is so masterful at this and the book just felt like it was missing something because of this. The characters had the potential to be more exciting but perhaps the void in their description is meant to match the void of their characters physical presence?

15 Jul 2020

A spine-chilling story of a girl called Coraline who moves to a new house to discover a portal to another world. The portal leads to a place with the perfect parents but they aren't ordinary, they have buttons as eyes. Before Coraline finds out, she goes in the portal every night with her 'perfect' parents which soon force her to have button eyes. The evil mother traps her in a room where Coraline finds 3 souls of missing children and she must find their eyes in order to save them and save herself. Luckily, she is a quick thinker with a mind of her own and manages to escape freeing the souls of the 3 children. I recommend this book because it is great and fun to read!

14 Jun 2020

it was amazing and so interesting, i was so hooked!

22 Dec 2019

It is a mystery and a horror book but not that scary
I liked Coraline because she is really clever an d defeated her other mother
The other mother was really evil and tried to keep Coraline to herself and trapped her real mother

17 Aug 2019

I love how it's not that scary, but the buttons creep me out. My favorite bit was the chase in the small passage way to the other world. I kind of felt sorry for her when she got stuck but she managed to find out how to get out.

02 Sep 2017

Bit scary

21 Aug 2017

spine tingaling mistery

09 Aug 2017

Sspooky

25 Jul 2017

This book was one of my favourite books and i will surely recommend this book without doubt as it is absolutely amazing!!!

07 Jul 2017

creepy and deranged loved it

19 Aug 2016

I liked this book because it was very action-packed; not suitable for people who don't like scary stories.

06 Aug 2016

Coraline's life is very-very boring. I think that her parents don't take care of her. In the beginning I was bored to death! Fortunately, she found a secret wall and met "the other mother", Miss Forcible and a lovely cat... she got new friends. She just imagined a lot of strange and frightened things. Have no fear, it will come to good :-)

04 Aug 2016

Good book, but may be scary for younger readers.

22 Jun 2016

im not afraid

23 Jul 2015

This book coraline was an exciting and adventorous but at the same time it was quite weird. I rated this book 3 because it was a bit hard to understand and read, if you don't understand the book don't worry because i didn't either!

Thanks Jeesie

15 Jul 2015

i could recomend this book to anyone between the age of 7-16

01 Jul 2015

It was soooo good, probably my favorite book.

17 Jan 2015

My mummy read me this. I enjoyed it but young children might think it is a bit scary. The book is different from the film.

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