Coraline

Author(s): Neil Gaiman; Chris Riddell (Illustrator)

Older Readers

This edition of New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman's modern classic, Coraline--also an Academy Award-nominated film--is enriched with a foreword from the author, a reader's guide, and much more.

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.

But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.

Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

This enhanced edition contains the full text of the novel, plus the following bonus content:

  • Original Coraline manuscript pages
  • Coraline's Many Houses: A Retrospective
  • Video: The official Coraline Movie Trailer
  • An excerpt from the Coraline Graphic Novel, adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell
  • Audio: Coraline Graphic Novel Podcast
  • Audio: Music from the Coraline audiobook, performed by the Gothic Archies
  • Excerpts from other books by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Dave McKean: The Graveyard Book, The Wolves in the Walls, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, and Crazy Hair
  • Coraline Foreign Edition Cover Gallery

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Tenth anniversary edition of Neil Gaiman's modern classic, brilliantly illustrated by Chris Riddell, with a new foreword by the author, in a gift presentation slipcase

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 wasn't 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. Coraline is a dreamlike adventure. For all its gripping nightmare imagery, this is actually a conventional fairy story with a moral Daily Telegraph

Neil Gaiman, author, scriptwriter and creator of graphic novels, is British and lives in the USA. His diverse catalogue of books includes the novel The Graveyard Book, winner of the Carnegie Medal 2010 and Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009, Stardust (now a major feature film), the bestselling novel for young readers Coraline (now a major 3D-animated film), and the picture book The Wolves in the Walls, which was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Neil Gaiman, author, scriptwriter and creator of graphic novels, is British and lives in the USA. His diverse catalogue of books includes the novel The Graveyard Book, winner of the Carnegie Medal 2010 and Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009, Stardust (now a major feature film), the bestselling novel for young readers Coraline (now a major 3D-animated film), and the picture book The Wolves in the Walls, which was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Chris Riddell is a much loved illustrator and acclaimed political cartoonist. He has won the Nestle Gold Award and two Kate Greenaway Medals. He is co-creator of the hugely successful New York Times bestseller the Edge Chronicles.

General Fields

  • : 9781408818626
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Children's Books
  • : 0.489
  • : 02 August 2012
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 September 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : B&W
  • : 208
  • : From 9
  • : Fic
  • : English
  • : Chris Riddell
  • : Special edition
  • : General merchandise
  • : Neil Gaiman; Chris Riddell (Illustrator)