Here's a look at some of the most dramatic alterations LAIKA made after taking the tale of Coraline into its talented hands. On the other hand, Dakota Fanning's portrayal gives a sassier, spunkier take on the character -- her version of Coraline is the type of little girl who frequently exclaims, "Ugh!

Neil Gaiman is renowned the world over for his darkly fanciful fantasy and sci-fi works, which range from graphic novels to children’s books to literature for adults.I managed to come across it on Goodreads one day when I was browsing graphic novels, and as soon as I saw it, I knew I had to have it. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. She was enthralled, even though she struggled with a lot of the words, it helped that things were broken up into small sections so she can focus on one speech bubble at a time. It's not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves.

I wasn't sure what it would be like, and if it would ruin the way I feel the characters look when I read the original Coraline, but if anything, I believe that it only enhanced the way I saw everything in the book when I read it. Sometimes funny, always creepy, genuinely moving, this marvellous spine-chiller will appeal to readers from nine to ninety. He befriends Coraline and helps her escape from the Beldam, though Coraline also uses him as an impromptu weapon. Though Coraline’s most well-known adaptation is no doubt the 2009 feature film produced by stop-motion studio Laika and starring Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher, Gaiman’s seminal children’s novella has been adapted for several other mediums in the years since its publication. She collects children, whom she loves possessively to the point of eventual destruction, taking their souls so they cannot leave her world and caring for them until they pass away, but wanting to feel their happiness and joy afterwards.

In the Other World, they are youthful and perform continuously in front of many different dogs, who, in the Other World, are anthropomorphic. Did she really meet with the Other Mother in the parallel universe or was it all just her imagination? But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were there, when he was really scared.