Blue Archipelago

Coraline is about… A young girl who goes exploring in her apartment and opens a door to another world where her ‘other mother’ tries to kidnap her and her parents.

I’ve heard fantastic things about this book over recent months and thought it would be a good opportunity for me to experience my first graphic novel - but I think it will unfortunately be my last. I just didn’t get it.

A couple of weeks back I joined my local library via their website and reserved a copy of Coraline, and today I went in to collect it and to have a nosy around and see what else I could find. Here’s what’s in my stash…

Fans of Neil Gaiman’s graphic novels may be interested to hear that Coraline is being brought to the big screen through stop-motion animation.

I just finished reading Stardust by Neil Gaiman and it got me thinking about books that have featured on the big screen.