| Booktalk
#1
Coraline
is bored. Her
parents are working from home now but that
means they have little time
to spend with her. The have recently
moved into a new home so Coraline
goes exploring. They actually have
purchased one apartment in a large
house so Coraline not only explores the
house but also gets to meet the
neighbors. In one apartment live a
pair of elderly sisters.
They used to be actresses and are on the
eccentric side. Another
apartment is owned by a strange old man
who tells Coraline that he is training
mice to dance. Coraline has her
doubts about this. No one has
ever seen the mice. The last
apartment is empty. Mother says
they are trying to find someone to live
there. There is a door that
connects Coraline's apartment with the
empty apartment. When they
open the door, they find a brick
wall. But is it really a brick
wall?
If so, how did it open from the other side
one night? And where are
the voices coming from? When
Coraline is alone one afternoon, she
takes the key and opens the door. No
longer is there a brick wall.
The door opens on a large apartment just
like their's. As a matter
of fact, Coraline's mother is making
dinner in the other apartment.
At least it looks like Coraline's mother
until she turns around.
Booktalk
#2
In
the book Coraline by Neil
Gaiman, the title character loves to
explore and go on adventures.
Coraline
just moved
in to a new flat and theres a suspicious
brick wall behind a door leading
to another flat. On one rainy day
coralline wants to explore and goes and
opens the door but the brick wall is gone,
she discovers that she has another
family. Find out what happens if you read
this book.
In
this adventurous spooky
book, you will be taken on an exiting
series of journeys through your mind
that will “make your head spin”.
This
is defiantly a book I
would recommend to people who like
adventurous books, because it is full
of “mind shocking stories”. (Rachel
T., K-12 student)
Booktalk #3
Do you
like to read scary books? If so, you should
read Coraline by Neil Gaiman. This book has
a great mix between scary and adventurous.
Coraline is a young girl that moves into an
apartment with her mom and dad who are
constantly working not having much time to
spend with Coraline. One morning Coraline
was curios to explore the new area, and
wanted to find out who lived in the other
three apartments connected to hers. While
she was exploring, she found out that a man
who lived with rats lived above her. In the
apartment on one side of hers, she met two
ladies that claim they used to be actresses,
but the apartment on the other side seemed
to be empty. Later that day, Coraline
explored her own house, and found a small
door which led to a dark hallway. Curious
Coraline crawled through the hallway which
led to the apartment that was supposed to be
empty, but it wasn’t. The apartment looked
identical to her apartment. To find out if
she was only back in her apartment or if
there was someone else living in the other
apartment, read Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
(Lacey
McMillen, la-mcmillen@wiu.edu,
college student)
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