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	Refracted Light: Coraline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Coraline doesn't find a fabulous destiny or telepathic unicorns; she finds a mirror replica of her home, and waiting in it are her "other mother" and "other father," who want her to stay with them so they can love her and play with her forever.
		Coraline risks her life and soul to save people who are profoundly imperfect but whom she still loves deeply.
		Coraline is marketed as a children's book, and its content could definitely be called "clean." However, it is extremely creepy and sometimes rather grotesque; I would definitely recommend caution in administering it to children or indeed anyone who scares easily.
	pax-romana.net /refracted/coraline.html (478 words)

	Excessive Candour
		Coraline (not Caroline, as she is forced to remind some adults time and again) is somewhere between (say) 9 and a young 12.
		If Coraline had been a tale of horror, we would have expected her to have been dragged (as though by a hook) through what was not a portal at all but a cloaca, a outgushing gape of the Bad Place Within, which befouls the protagonist on contact.
		So Coraline is the child in the fairy story who is given a task or three to accomplish, and through her success defeats the wicked parody mother, and reclaims her family and her world.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue281/excess.html (1045 words)

	Books (etc) We Like (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A young impressionable girl named Coraline finds herself trapped in a parallel universe created by a woman who claims to be her "other mother." This is an ideal fantasy novel for kids of all ages: from those in third grade all the way up to those with kids or grandkids in third grade.
		Coraline is optimistic and inspirational serving as positive affirmation in the power of friendship and love.
		Coraline is a little girl trying to survive a dull summer with distracted parents, neighbors who can't remember her name and a big, empty house to explore.
	bookswelike.net /isbn/0380807343 (1166 words)

	Neil Gaiman, Coraline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Coraline (not Caroline!) is a bright little girl who has recently moved into a new flat (read "apartment" for Americans) with her parents.
		But Coraline hears mysterious noises at night, and when she returns to the door during a very boring afternoon, she finds it open -- an entryway leading to what appears to be her own flat.
		Coraline, though sometimes ignored by her parents when they are busy, instantly realizes that it's an imposter.
	www.rambles.net /gaiman_coraline.html (348 words)

	Coraline - Talk It Up! Book Discussion Groups for Kids - Multnomah County Library
		Soon, Coraline is caught in a life or death challenge - to save herself, her family, and three lost children.
		When Coraline unlocks the door to the neighboring flat she knows she is doing something she is not supposed to (pp.26).
		Coraline's other mother tells her that if she wants to stay in the other world there is one thing she must do.
	www.multcolib.org /talk/guides-coraline.html (883 words)

	Review : Coraline by Neil Gaiman - Children's Books
		The book is about a young girl named Coraline who discovers a door to a parallel world shortly after she and her family moves into a huge house.
		Coraline discovers the other world one day when she is extremely bored.
		I enjoyed the development of Coraline from what appears to be naivety in the beginning of the book to absolute courage and cleverness at the end.
	www.bellaonline.org /ArticlesP/art6399.asp (476 words)

	Amazon.com: Coraline: Books: Neil Gaiman,Dave McKean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Coraline lives with her preoccupied parents in part of a huge old house--a house so huge that other people live in it, too...
		Coraline's plight, being stranded away from her parents amidst a world full of thinly veiled threats may be uncomfortable for a sensitive child.
		Coraline (not Caroline, even though all of the adults who live in the other flats keep on saying it that way and ignoring her corrections) and her parents move into a new home.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380977788?v=glance (2766 words)

	Coraline By Neil Gaiman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Coraline and her parents have moved to a new flat in a very large house.
		In the sunshine Coraline explores her new surroundings, but when the rain comes, she is forced inside and left to entertain herself because mum and dad are busy.
		It isn't long before Coraline notices that there are one too many doors in her new home and although her mum has shown her the brick wall behind the extra door, Coraline ends up on the other side.
	www.myshelf.com /teen/fiction/02/coraline.htm (333 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Coraline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Coraline is a more savvy and sensible heroine than Alice, and the lack of nonsense creates a frighteningly realistic fantasy.
		Coraline's parents are narcissistic and show little emotional attachment to their child.
		Coraline (2002), his first novel for children, was a New York Times and international bestseller, was nominated forthe Prix Tam Tam, and won the Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award, the BSFA Award, the HUgo, the Nebula and the Bram Stoker Award.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=51755772&srchTerms=0380977788&mediaType=1&srchType=IS (1115 words)

	Review: Neil Gaiman's Coraline, reviewed by Tim Pratt
		Inevitably, Coraline takes the key and returns to the door, and this time when she opens it, there are no bricks, just a dark corridor.
		She tells Coraline that she's her "other mother," and that Coraline may stay with her forever; the chief advantages of this arrangement seem to be delicious food (Coraline's own parents seldom cook anything to her liking) and a lack of disciplinary constraints.
		Coraline explores further, and finds strange analogues to her own world -- a theater full of dogs downstairs, where younger versions of Miss Forcible and Miss Spinks perform an endless vaudeville-style variety show, and a distinctly lunatic old man upstairs, who has dozens of red-eyed rats living in his suit.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20020701/coraline.shtml (1483 words)

	Coraline, Neil Gaiman - HarperAcademic
		Coraline's family didn't own all of the house, it was too big for that.
		So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.
		Her mother made her come back inside for dinner, and for lunch; and Coraline had to make sure she dressed up warm before she went out, for it was a very cold summer that year; but go out she did, exploring, every day until the day it rained, when Coraline had to stay inside.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/excerpt_xml.asp?isbn=0380977788 (912 words)

	eBay - Book: Coraline (ISBN: 0060575913) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When Coraline returns to her own dimension, she is horrified to discover that her parents have been taken prisoner in the parallel world.
		Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
		Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
	product.ebay.com /Coraline_ISBN_0060575913_W0QQfvcsZ1389QQsoprZ30211393 (446 words)

	Kidsreads.com - CORALINE by Neil Gaiman
		Surprisingly, the apartment is far from empty, and Coraline comes face to face with two creatures who claim to be her "other" parents.
		Coraline meets the ghosts of several other children who had been kidnapped hundreds of years ago, and she realizes that her both her body and spirit are in danger.
		Coraline's story is truly frightening, and Gaiman goes to great lengths to forge an "other" world where every aspect of our lives is perverted and twisted into the macabre.
	www.kidsreads.com /reviews/0380977788.asp (387 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Review: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
		Coraline lives alone with her parents in a flat in an old house, the other flats being occupied by an eccentric old man who trains mice, and two elderly retired actresses.
		Coraline's parents are kindly but absent-minded and preoccupied with their work, so Coraline - who seems to be about Alice's age - has had to rely on herself, not only for entertainment, but also for sensible things like eating and washing and putting herself to bed.
		The narrative voice is not Coraline's, but hers are the only thoughts and feelings we are told about, so she is at the centre of the story.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/childrenandteens/0,6121,783536,00.html (717 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Coraline at Epinions.com
		What Coraline decides to do with her few weeks of freedom before beginning at a new school is explore.
		Coraline is an engaging heroine with the kind of natural curiosity that makes us we understand how her distracted parents simply would not be enough to keep her happy in a strange place on a rainy day.
		She may be a child, but Coraline has the kind of universal curiosity about the odd and unusual that we can all relate to.
	www.epinions.com /content_185024810628 (1243 words)

	Neil Gaiman, Coraline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Coraline has a setting that is akin to The Rookery in Charles de Lint's Someplace to be Flying in that it's a very large house now divided up into apartments.
		Coraline is a slightly less dour version of Lydia, but could be her long-lost sister.
		Coraline is a quick read, and an interesting one at that, which you'll finish in about an hour or so.
	www.greenmanreview.com /coraline.htm (750 words)

	BookPage Children's Review: Coraline
		Coraline Jones and her parents have just moved into a house so big they share it with an old man who trains mice upstairs and an aging former actresses in the basement.
		An avid explorer, Coraline investigates the large garden and grounds around her new home until a heavy rain forces her to confront every active child's nightmare—an entire day stuck inside with nothing to do.
		One day when her parents are away, Coraline opens the door again and finds that the bricks have vanished, revealing a dark corridor that leads to an almost exact copy of her own house, complete with another mother and father, who have pale white skin and shiny fl button eyes.
	www.bookpage.com /0208bp/children/coraline.html (376 words)

	Coraline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Coraline is a somewhat creepy children's story of a little girl called Coraline (not Caroline) who moves into a flat in a big old house with her parents.
		The "other mother" captures Coraline's parents, and she goes through a brief series of quests to rescue them (and also the souls of three children who are injected into the narrative really as something extra for her to do).
		The initial tension in Coraline is that her parents are too busy to pay attention to her, and cook meals that she doesn't like; the attraction of the "other mother" is that she promises love, and attention, and good food.
	explorers.whyte.com /sf/coraline.htm (1282 words)

	Reviews of Fantasy and Science Fiction Books -- Writers Write -- The IWJ
		Coraline tells the story of a little girl who moves into a new flat with her parents, who are nice but always a bit too busy.
		Coraline refuses and returns to her flatbut her real parents are gone, imprisoned in the mirror by her other mother, along with other unfortunate children.
		Coraline herself does seem to realize the danger she's in, but she's an adventurer and a practical child, and doesn't seem to find the circumstances near as terrifying as the reader does.
	www.writerswrite.com /journal/sep02/fansf.htm (789 words)

	USATODAY.com - Little 'Coraline' opens door to an 'other' world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Inexplicably, Coraline is drawn to the door and doesn't seem at all surprised when one day she opens it and finds herself in a dark hallway.
		Coraline returns to the alternate world to rescue her parents.
		With the help of a talking fl cat that can travel between the two worlds, Coraline challenges the "other" mother and resolves to rescue her parents and the children's souls.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/2002/07-16-gaiman.htm (436 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Coraline / Neil Gaiman
		Coraline, a dark children's fairy tale readable in about an hour and a half, is an interesting book for Neil Gaiman to follow up American Gods with.
		Coraline Jones is a little girl whose family has moved into a flat that is part of a converted old manor house deep in the English countryside.
		Coraline discovers that other children have been captured and imprisoned by the being that wants to be Coraline's mother.
	www.sfreviews.net /coraline.html (1001 words)

	Coraline \| Book Reviews for Kids by Kids \| SUPER READERS Book Review
		Coraline is about a girl who lives in an apartment with her mother and father.
		One day while Coraline is exploring the apartment building she comes across a door that she unlocks, and finds another world.
		As she looks at the brick wall, a passage appears and through that passage Coraline discovers a new world that seems to be exactly like her old one, but somehow it isn't.
	www.ga.k12.pa.us /academics/LS/superreader/title/C/coraline.htm (252 words)

	Coraline, Neil Gaiman - HarperChildrens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Coraline's parents are too busy to play with her.
		When Coraline discovers her parents are missing, she calls the police (pp.
		When Coraline finds her other father in the basement he tells her to flee (p.
	www.harperchildrens.com /teacher/catalog/guide_xml.asp?isbn=0380977788 (729 words)

	BookBlog: Coraline Begins Here
		I went back through it and I agree that Coraline does figure things out very quickly but I think the speed is related to the fact that her reasoning is not really intelectual but emotional.
		Coraline does discover things VERY quickly, but I agree that it is because she acts on emotion and not intellect.
		Then maybe we would have a better understanding of who Coraline was and how/why Coraline was able to find the clues and make the decisions she did in the time span it took her to do so.
	www.bookblog.net /bbarchives/000323.html (2697 words)

	Neil Gaiman: Coraline
		Coraline Jones' parents have just moved into an apartment in a huge old house and turned her loose to explore.
		Coraline is, of course, drawn to the mysterious door.
		Coraline is a pleasantly creepy way to spend a few hours, but it's lightweight; I wish Gaiman had given freer rein to his inner psycopath.
	www.epiphyte.net /SF/coraline.html (442 words)

	Book Review: Coraline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Coraline is the story of a young girl ("the same age as Alice," says Gaiman) who discovers that a door in her apartment which should lead nowhere in fact leads Somewhere.
		Coraline goes though it to discover a world just enough unlike her own to be disturbing.
		Coraline is a terrific example of intertextuality adding to the levels of enjoyment of a book: It is perfectly possible to wholeheartedly enjoy Coraline without having read anything else, ever.
	www.mythsoc.org /coralinerev.html (647 words)

	Amazon.ca: Coraline: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Coraline Jones is a little girl (precise age unknown) who has recently moved into a big old house with her parents.
		Soon, Coraline and her real parents are trapped into this mirror version of their house and it is up to her to get them out safely...
		"Coraline" is a treasure of a story, wrapped in a small package that won't require more than two hours of a reader's time and yet will leave a lasting impression.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0380977788 (1172 words)

	Neil Gaiman: Coraline
		Neil Gaiman begins Coraline as a sort of Alice in Wonderland story about a young girl, Coraline, who loves exploring and finds her way into a topsy turvy universe when she goes through a strange door in her new house.
		Fortunately for Coraline, she is a brave and resourceful girl, not given to panicking and able to solve the puzzles which are laid before her.
		Coraline’s tale is short, but only because Gaiman doesn’t insist on unnecessary padding to lengthen the book.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/coraline.html (268 words)

	FishGeeks :: Tropical fish - Marine Fish - Aquarium Fish - Pond Fish - Aquatic Plants
		Coraline does like good flow-- I had great growth in my overflow box.
		Some coraline doesn't like intense lighting and may take a while to build back up-- when/if it comes back I would expect to see it on the sides of the rock first (where it is less intense)...
		I had a bunch of coraline on the back of my tank-- I recently finally had the time to replace my tank rim-- I bought my tank used and the previous owner had cut the rim cross braces-- took me a bit to find a replacement rim....
	www.aquaria.info /index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=50346 (1359 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Coraline
		Coraline and her family have just moved into a huge old house that has been subdivided into flats.
		One day, Coraline opens the door again to discover the bricks are gone, and the flat on the other side isn't so empty after all.
		Coraline is indeed a creepy and pleasurable read for anyone who has ever wondered what lay on the other side of the wall, what rats sing when you sleep, or what cats call themselves.
	www.sfsite.com /08a/cl133.htm (730 words)

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