“There is something strange about
Coraline's new home. It's not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be
watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her
new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It's the other house - the one behind
the old door in the drawing room. Another mother and father with black-button
eyes and papery skin are waiting for Coraline to join them there. And they want
her to stay with them. For ever. She knows that if she ventures through that
door, she may never come back.”
It’s unlikely that you haven’t heard of
Neil Gaiman’s fabulous children’s dark-fantasy novel, Coraline, or seen the film. It really is a creepy story – a modern
day fairy tale. But did you know that it’s ten years old this year? In
celebration, Bloomsbury is re-issuing Coraline,
again with illustrations by Chris Riddell. There is the regular hardcover at £12.99
plus a signed limited edition (signed by both Gaiman and Riddell) at
£25.00. Due in the bookshops next month.
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