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Vorgestellt von: Lilja-June (Gryffindor)
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Allgemeines zum Buch Coraline und dem Autor Neil Gaiman
Coraline is a children´s book by the author Neil Gaiman. Although it´s a book for children and has won several awards in that category, it appeals to older readers nevertheless. Despite being a book for young readers, this is all about fantasy and also horror. I wouldn´t recommend this book for children younger than 10.
Inhaltsbeschreibung zum Buch Coraline von Neil Gaiman
The book starts off when Coraline has just moved into a new house with her parents. Her parents don´t have a lot of time and so Coraline spends the rest of her summer holidays what she calls exploring. She sets off to explore the new house and the huge garden. She also gets to know the other inhabitants of the house: two elderly ladies called Miss Spinks and Miss Forcible, who used to be actresses once, and the crazy old man who used to work in a circus and trains mice.
Coraline discovers a door in the apartment that´s locked. When she asks her mother what´s behind it, she learns that it has once been a door to the empty apartment next to their own and has been bricked up. Although she has seen the wall, Coraline gets curious… and when her parents are gone the other day, she steals the key and opens the door once again. Surprised, she finds that the door isn´t blocked anymore and there is a passage. Instead of an empty apartment, she finds a strange copy of her own home at the other end and she gets to know some people who remind her a lot of her parents. Only that they have shiny black buttons where their eyes should be …
They call themselves her “other” parents and at first glance, everything here seems better than it is with her real parents. People pronounce her name right and the food is so much better than her father´s cooking. Still Coraline thinks this is weird and decides to leave again. The other parents seem reluctant to let her go but don´t do anything to stop her.
Back at home, she has to realize her parents are gone and soon she finds out that her other parents seem to have kidnapped them. She sets off into the other world again to find her parents and bring them back.
Coraline soon learns that the other mother isn´t as nice as she pretends to be and that she is in great danger. With the help of her friend the cat and a stone she got from Miss Spinks and Miss Forcible, she has to find a way to free her parents and get back to her world. But before all is well again and back to normal, she also has to free the souls of three children that the other mother had kidnapped before her.
And just when you think, Coraline has succeeded, she has to face another threat and make sure the other mother will never do harm to anyone ever again.
Die Meinung von Lilja-June (Gryffindor) zu Coraline von Neil Gaiman
Coraline is one of the best books I have ever read. Neil Gaiman´s simple, yet alluring style of writing, soon takes you off into a fantasy world, far away from reality. Coraline is never really described in the whole book and still you get the feeling you´ve known this little girl for ages. The story takes the reader right into the action. This book is all about imagination. If you lack that, you probably won´t like it. It´s for people who are not afraid to be confronted with unpleasant things, because this is what Coraline has to do. She knows what being brave means: Being brave is when you´re scared of something but you do it nevertheless. And this is exactly what she has to prove. This is a book about overcoming your fears because your help is needed. And it teaches you something else. It teaches you that nobody wants a perfect world. Nobody wants to have everything they want. People want their imperfect life with all the imperfect people who they love nevertheless. [zurück zu Jugendliteratur]