Coraline: The Graphic Novel

Title: Coraline: The Graphic Novel
Author: Neil Gaiman (adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell)
Format: paperback
Published: first published 2008, by Bloomsbury
Pages: 186
RRP: £9.99

rating: * * * * / 5

When Coraline is bored one rainy day, she explores the old house she lives in, and discovers that there is a door with a brick wall behind it.
Later on, Coraline notices the same door - with no brick wall behind it! Intrigued, she steps into a flat similiar to her own - but brighter.
An other mother and other father live there - they look almost the same as Coraline's own parents except for the fact they have big, black, shiny buttons for eyes, and the other mother has long fingers with scarlet pointy nails.
The food is better, the toys are more fun, and Coraline is allowed anything she wants - so why does she want to go home?
When she returns she finds no parents wondering where she was - the other mother has captured them! In order to get them back, Coraline must return to the other parents.
But when she gets to the other home, the other mother is desperate for Coraline to stay with her and be a loving daughter.
Coraline needs to escape - with her parents and some new friends too.
I read this in a night - it is a really good adaptation. The drawings of the other mother are creepy and there are a few chilling parts.
All in all, a brilliant graphic novel. A brilliant book too.
Try and get ahold of a copy if you can.