![]() ![]() The other parents are attentive, cook well and have plenty of time to spare their daughter, but they are the stuff of nightmares. There are no other children around, so like many another lonely literary child – Alice, Mary Craven, (The Secret Garden) and Harry Potter, Coraline has to find things out for herself. ![]() The neighbours get her name wrong and her father’s cooking is peculiar to say the least, while both of her parents are too busy to pay her much attention. In the ‘real’ one, it could be explained by the fact that Coraline and her parents have just moved into the house. ![]() There’s something chilly and off-balance about both worlds. Coraline is still at the stage in her life when those outside her circle are not quite real. This gives the novel the feel of a stage play, but it also reflects the self-absorbed view of a small girl. The town Coraline visits with her mother seems to be devoid of people. We see Coraline, her parents, the ‘other parents’ their neighbours and a shop assistant. It is starkly illustrated with very few people in it. ![]() This is a clever, inventive adaptation of a stylish ‘crossover’ novel, in which a young girl discovers an alternative reality to the one she thinks she knows. Coraline by Neil Gaiman and P Craig Russell ![]()
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