Coraline book pdf english Continue This article is about the novel. For film adaptation, see Coraline (movie). For other uses, see Coraline (disambiguation). 2002 children novella by Neil Gaiman This article consists almost entirely of a plot summary. It needs to be expanded to provide a more balanced coverage, which includes a real-world context. Please edit the article to focus on discussing the work, rather than just subtracting the plot. (August 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template report) Dave McKeanAuthorNeil GaimanIllustratorDave McKeanCover artistDave McKeanValstsUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishgengeChildren's book HorrorPublisherBloomsbury (UK)Harper Collins (US)Publication date2. July 2002[1]Media typePrint, e-book, audiobookPages186ISBN0-06-113937-8OCLC71822484Dewey Decimal813LC ClassPZ7.G1273 Co 2002 Coraline (/2]) is a dark fantasy children's novella by British author Neil Gaiman, published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and Harper Collins. It received the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Noveloju,[3] The Nebula Award for Best Novella, the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers. [5] The Guardian took the #82 its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. [6] Gaiman started writing for Coraline in 1990. The nominal character name came from the typo Caroline. According to Gaiman, I had typed the name Caroline, and it came out wrong. I looked at the name Coraline, and knew it was someone's name. I wanted to know what happened to him. [7] It has been compared to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and has been adapted for the 2009 stop-motion film, directed by Henry Selick. Plot Coraline Jones and her loving parents move to an old house that is divided into apartments. Other tenants include Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, two elderly women retired from the scene and Mr. Bobo, originally called a crazy old man upstairs who claims to be teaching a mouse circus. The apartment next to Coraline's is unoccuined, and the small doors connecting them are open bricked up when opened. Coraline goes to visit her new neighbors. Mr. Bobo relays her message from his mice: Don't go through the door. Coraline also has tea with Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, and Miss Spink spy on the dangers of Coraline's future after reading her tea leaves. Despite these warnings, Coraline decides to unlock the door when she is at home by herself. This time she finds a brick wall behind the door is gone. Instead, there is a long hallway that leads to a flat identical to her own, except inhabited by Another Mother and Another Father, which has black buttons for the eyes. The other mother is much taller and thinner than her real mother. Her black hair seems to be moving in itself, her skin is paper white, and her nails are long and red. Coraline finds The Other World more interesting than her own; Other cooks the food that she actually enjoys, both her other parents pay more attention to her, her toy box is filled with animated toys that can move and fly, Citi Miss Spink and Miss Forcible take an endless act in her apartment, and Other Mr. Bobo performs a mouse circus. She even finds that a wild black cat that wanders around the house in the real world can talk. The cat identifies itself as the same cat that lives in the real world and possesses the ability to travel through the differences between the two worlds. Although deliberately rude and does not help for most of the conversation, it briefly praises him for bringing protection, then disappears. After Coraline returns to a copy of her apartment, Another mother offers Coraline the opportunity to stay in the Other World forever, but to do so, Coraline should allow the buttons to be tucked into her eyes. Coraline is horrified and returns through the door to her home. After returning to her apartment, Coraline finds her real parents missing. They don't return the next day, and the black cat wakes her up and takes her to the mirror in her hallway, through which she can see her trapped parents. They signal her by writing Help Us on the glass from which Coraline deduces The Other Mother has kidnapped them. She calls the police first, but they don't believe her. So Coraline, though scared to return, goes back to another world to confront Another mother and rescue her parents. In the garden, Coraline prompted the cat to challenge another mother as her kind of thing loves games and problems. The other mother tries to persuade Coraline to stay, but Coraline refuses and is locked in a small room behind the mirror as punishment. In the small dark room, she meets three ghost children. Each was in the past let the Other Mother, whom they archaically refer to as beldam, sew buttons over the eyes. They tell Coraline how Another mother eventually grew bored with them, leaving them to die and put them aside, but they are trapped there because she has saved her soul. If their souls can be saved from the Second Mother, then ghosts can pass on. Ghost children soak up Coraline's escape and escape their destiny. After Another mother releases coral coral from the mirror, Coral suggests a game: if she can find ghost children's souls and her parents, then she, her parents, and ghost children can go free. If she loses, then Coraline will allow Another Mother to sew buttons in her eyes and become a loving daughter to her. The other mother agrees and swears to the mother's grave. Coraline demands that Another Mother swear on something else, and she swears on her right hand. Coraline searches through the Other World and overcomes other mother's obstacles using her wits and Miss Spink's lucky stone (protection cat to find marble-like soul ghost for children. She also points out that her parents are trapped in the snow world on the fireplace. Ghost children warn her that even if Coraline wins, Another mother won't let her go out to Coraline to trick another mother by announcing that she knows where her parents are hidden: in the hallway between the worlds. The other mother can't resist gloating by opening the door to show Coraline that her parents aren't there. When Another Mother opens the door Coraline throws the cat at the Other Mother, grabs the snow world, and escapes to the real world with a key, and the cat quickly follows. On the run, Coraline presses the door closed on the other Mother's arm. Back in their home, Coraline falls asleep on a chair. She has woken up with her parents who have no memory of events. That night, Coralin has a dream where she meets three kids for a picnic. Children are dressed in clothes from different periods, and one seems to have wings. They warn her that her task has not yet been done: Another mother will try to get her back and try to get the key to open the door between the worlds. Coraline goes to the old well in the woods to get rid of the keys. She pretends to have a picnic, with a picnic blanket set above the entrance to the well. Other mothers separated hands trying to use the key, but measures the blanket and falls right. Coraline returns to the house, greeting her neighbors (who finally get her name right), and getting ready for school the next day. Characters Coraline Jones - young explorer. She is curious, intelligent, resourceful and courageous. Coraline is often irritated by rain, crazy adults (as they all seem to be), and are not taken seriously since her youth. She is described as small at her age, but Coraline is not afraid to face anyone; she is the most inedent person in the book. Even though Coraline wants to never see other mothers again after she was kidnapped by her parents, she develops Stockholm syndrome smaller than Beldam. After all she had heard about The Other Mother and what she had done to the Coraline family, she cannot deny that Another mother did not truly love her in her selfish way. She feels some empathy for her other mother in the very slightest and realizes that Beldam wants a strong mother-daughter bond that she doesn't fully understand how to make. It shows the compassionate side of Coraline Jones and the powerful will she has. In the movie, she's called Dakota Fanning. Mrs. Jones, Coraline's mother. She is very busy most of the time, and sometimes a little careless, but she loves and cares about Coraline. She is nice and helpful, although Coraline thinks she is quite bored. Coraline also gets annoyed with her real mother because she doesn't seem to let Coraline fit in. In the film, her name is Mel, and is voicedd by Teri Hatcher. Jones, Coraline's father. He works in his house on a computer. He takes care of Coraline very much and is kind, courageous, and helpful. He makes interesting food creations that Coraline very dislikes. He is also usually too busy to spend time with Coraline. In the movie, his name is Charlie, and it's called John Hodgman. Cat - a black cat from the Coraline world. The cat acts as a mentor for Coraline and guides her through her journey. He is left unnamed because he explains that cats don't need words to tell each other separately. Unlike many characters in novels, he has no Other World colleague, saying that unlike other creatures in the world, cats can hold themselves together.