The original book Coraline, as it is in most cases, was much different then the animated movie Coraline by: Tim Burton. The book, depending how vivid of an imagination you have, was much scarier than the movie, it also had many similarities with the movie. As you know if you have seen the movie the book about a young girl named Coraline who moves with her mother and father, who sometimes tend to forget her when they are preoccupied with work, to an Apartment building where they own one of the flats. Coraline is bored and spends most of her summer wondering outside in the garden near the old well is. But one day when it was raining, Coraline become very curios of the small door in the drawing room,and where it went to, and what was behind it. she asked her mother about it and so she got a ring of keys from a hook in the kitchen and picked the oldest and rustiest one out to unlock the door. when the door was finally open it just opened to a brick wall. That night Coraline dreamed that a small rat like creature lead her to the door and when she walked through it it lead to a flat set up exactly like hers but better. as if it were a parallel universe. She had another mother and father even. But there was something different about them and there eye's. they had button eye's. Coraline found this particularly scary. the next morning when she woke up she told her mother all about the dream and how real it seemed even thought her mother kept saying that it was just a dream. the same thing happened the next night. the day after that Coraline's parents went grocery shopping and left her home alone. She just knew that the door led to another flat instead of just a brick wall so she got the keys down from the hook and went into the "other" flat. this time while being with her other parents they asked her if they could sew buttons on her eye's. she said no and got into a terrible fight with her other mother who threw her through the wall into a small room and told her she may come out when she learns to be a loving daughter. While she was in there three small ghost children came to her and told her to be quiet because the other mother can hear them. they told her they let her sew the button eyes on her and she killed them for herself. when the ghost children had left Coraline fell asleep in the small room. when she had awaken and was taken out she went home into her real flat but her parents where nowhere to be found. the next morning they still weren't back. Coraline went downstairs to the flat of the two old ladies who read her tea leaves and said she was in great danger. they gave her a small triangle with a hole in the middle and told her it was good for lost things. Coraline went back to the other flat and challenged the other mother to a game: to find the eye's of all the ghost children and her parents. in the end she won and lived a happy happy life. all and all i would defiantly say it was a great book and would defiantly recommend you read it. it would probably give this book a 4 1/2 out of 5 stars.
