After Coraline's parents are kidnapped into the other world, she sets off on a mission to rescue them. However, the dangerous creature there-called the other mother- intends to keep her forever. When she comes upon a door in their flat that seems to go nowhere, enters an alternate world that at first is full of interesting things and delicious foods-everything that she has longed for. Insatiably curious Coraline is an explorer dedicated to discovering everything she can about the area around her family's new home. Gr 6-8-This adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel (HarperCollins, 2002) reads as though it were intended for the graphic novel format in the first place. His children's books include The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish Coraline, which won the Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla, the BSFA, the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Bram Stoker awards The Wolves in the Walls Odd and the Frost Giants The Graveyard Book, which won the Newbery Award in 2009 and The Sandman: Overture which won the 2016 Hugo Awards Best Graphic Story. His adult books include The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which won a British National Book Awards, and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel for 2014 Stardust, which won the Mythopoeic Award as best novel for adults in 1999 American Gods, which won the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX, and Locus awards Anansi Boys Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances and The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, which is a New York Times Bestseller. The series has won every major industry award including nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, three Harvey Awards, and the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story, making it the first comic ever to win a literary award. His first comic endeavor was the graphic novel series The Sandman.

Some of his work has appeared in publications such as Time Out, The Sunday Times, Punch, and The Observer. He worked as a journalist and freelance writer for a time, before deciding to try his hand at comic books. Neil Gaiman was born in Portchester, England on November 10, 1960.

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