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세계 최초 3D 스톱 애니메이션 <코렐라인: 비밀의 문>의 원작 동화. 닐 게이먼은 만화가 겸 소설가로 환상문학에 있어 최고로 꼽히는 작가이다. 그가 처음 어린이를 위해 쓴 책이 바로 '코랄린'이다. 갈색의 문, 단추 눈을 가진 사람들, 진짜 세계와 가짜 세계를 오가는 현실과 환상의 판타지가 펼쳐진다.

가짜 세계에서 진짜 부모를 잃어버린 소녀, 코랄린이 공포에 맞서 용감하게 싸워 세상에서 가장 소중한 가족, 부모님을 지켜내는 이 이야기를 통해 '상상력의 확장'과 '가족애' 모두를 느낄 수 있는 판타지 작품이다.


British novelist Gaiman (American Gods; Stardust) and his long-time accomplice McKean (collaborators on a number of Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels as well as The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish) spin an electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons. After Coraline and her parents move into an old house, Coraline asks her mother about a mysterious locked door. Her mother unlocks it to reveal that it leads nowhere: "When they turned the house into flats, they simply bricked it up," her mother explains. But something about the door attracts the girl, and when she later unlocks it herself, the bricks have disappeared. Through the door, she travels a dark corridor (which smells "like something very old and very slow") into a world that eerily mimics her own, but with sinister differences. "I'm your other mother," announces a woman who looks like Coraline's mother, except "her eyes were big black buttons." Coraline eventually makes it back to her real home only to find that her parents are missing--they're trapped in the shadowy other world, of course, and it's up to their scrappy daughter to save them. Gaiman twines his taut tale with a menacing tone and crisp prose fraught with memorable imagery ("Her other mother's hand scuttled off Coraline's shoulder like a frightened spider"), yet keeps the narrative just this side of terrifying. The imagery adds layers of psychological complexity (the button eyes of the characters in the other world vs. the heroine's increasing ability to distinguish between what is real and what is not; elements of Coraline's dreams that inform her waking decisions). McKean's scratchy, angular drawings, reminiscent of Victorian etchings, add an ominous edge that helps ensure this book will be a real bedtime-buster. Ages 8-up.

Illustrated by David McKean A New York Times Bestseller A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2002 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2002 In Coraline's family's new flat is a door which opens only to a brick wall. But one day, the door opens on a passage to another flat just like her own. At first, things seem marvelous there. The food is better. The toys are magical. But there's also another mother and father, and they want Coraline to be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. 740L An Accelerated Reader title for ages 9-12