Coraline

Sometimes funny, always creepy, genuinely moving, this marvellous spine-chiller will appeal to readers from nine to ninety. Books for Keeps I was looking forward to Coraline, and I wasnt disappointed. In fact, I was enthralled. This is a marvellously strange and scary book Philip Pullman, Guardian, If any writer can get the guys to read about the girls, it should be Neil Gaiman. His new novel Coraline is a dreamlike adventure. For all its gripping nightmare imagery, this is actually a conventional fairy story with a moral. Daily Telegraph Stephen King once called Neil Gaiman a treasure-house of stories and in this wonderful novel, which has been likened to both Alice in Wonderland and the Narnia Chronicles, we get to see Neil at his storytelling best.