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Coraline adapted by P. Craig Russell

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The bestselling children's book by famed comic book writer Neil Gaiman gets a new format and look from Harvey and Eisner award-winning artist P. Craig Russell in "Coraline," the graphic novel.

Coraline moves to a new house and neighborhood before school starts. Predictably, she is bored and doesn't know what to do with her time. Her parents suggest getting to know the neighbors, two elderly women who used to be stage actresses, and a strange older gentleman who says he has a mouse circus upstairs but isn't ready yet. Coraline soon tires of this and goes exploring in the house, including the door that leads to no where but a brick wall. Coraline's mom says it was cemented up when the house became apartments, but Coraline isnát sure, especially when the door opens inexplicably in the night. And one day Coraline opens it to find a dark new world, where everything is strange and magical. Where two strange people who look like her parents, but not, want her to stay with them forever. There's just one thing she must do first to stay with them forever - and it requires changing her eyes for buttons. Scared, Coraline flees to the real world to find her parents missing - taken by her Other Mother. She must gather her strength to return to the dark world to save her parents and the other children taken by her Other Mother throughout the years. And just when Coraline thinks her adventure is finished - it isn't.

Dark and gently scary like many fairy tales, "Coraline" is the perfect "magic journey" story for both children and adults.

"Coraline" is published by HarperCollins. It is $18.99

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