Coraline

""Gaiman's tale is inventive, scary, thrilling and finally affirmative. Readers young and old will find something to startle them."" -- Washington Post Book World ""A modern ghost story with all the creepy trimmings...Well done."" -- New York Times Book Review ""Coraline is by turns creepy and funny, bittersweet and playful...can be read quickly and enjoyed deeply."" -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review ""A magnificently creepy story. Coraline is spot on."" -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ""Gaiman's pacing is superb, and he steers the tension of the tale with a deft and practiced narrative touch."" -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books ""Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, rise to your feet and applaud: Coraline is the real thing."" -- Philip Pullman, The Guardian ""The most splendidly original, weird, and frightening book I have read, and yet full of things children will love."" -- Diana Wynne Jones ""It has the delicate horror of the finest fairy tales, and it is a masterpiece."" -- Terry Pratchett ""An electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons."" -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "" Walk through the door and you'll believe in love, magic, and the power of good over evil."" -- USA Today ""So wonderfully whimsical that readers of all ages will hungrily devour itCoraline is destined to become a classic. -- Globe and Mail (Toronto) ""Chilly, finely-wrought prose, a truly weird setting and a fable that taps into our most uncomfortable fears."" -- Times Educational Supplement ""A deliciously scary book that we loved reading together as a family."" -- Orson Scott Card ""Beautifully spooky. Gaiman actually seems to understand the way children think. "" -- Christian Science Monitor ""A frighteningly realistic fantasy. Lean crisp prose adds to the suspense and propels the story, and the eerie black-and-white illustrations by Dave McKean heighten the nightmarish quality of the tale."" -- Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) ""Kids will hang on every word. Coraline is a character with whom they will surely identify, and they will love being frightened out of their shoes. This is just right for all those requests for a scary book."" -- School Library Journal (starred review)