Why might Coraline be considered extraordinary? Do you think she is? In what ways?
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QOTD #4: Coraline
Do the mirror that Coraline sees in the real world and the other world reflect reality? Or are they an illusion? How do you know?
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QOTD #3: Coraline
Coraline’s other mother told her that if she wants to stay with them, there is something she must do. What is it and what effect will it have on her?
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QOTD #2: Coraline
How is Coraline’s life with her other family different from her real family? What kind of things make life in the other world appealing?
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QOTD #1: Coraline
Coraline and her family just moved into their new home and she has time to explore before she starts school. What else does she do with her free time? Describe her relationship with her parents?
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Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Because Neil Gaiman was such a hit last time, let us read another of his stories! This week, we will be reading Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
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The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring….
In Coraline’s family’s new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.
The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.
Only it’s different.
At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there’s another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.
Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.
Check back on Monday for the first question!