In fact, this could be another lesson in parenting (see THE DAY I SWAPPED ME DAD FOR TWO GOLDFISH), suggesting that mothers and fathers should pay more attention to their kids and interact with them more, but should they? Playing on your own is exactly what sparks the young imagination into escapades like this, and in the long term helps produce these very sorts of books.Ĭoraline has just moved into a house - a great big house with expansive grounds full of tall trees, lush thickets and even its own well, which always bodes ill, doesn't it? It's such a grand house it's been divided into flats, none of whose dotty old denizens can get Coraline's name right.
Here he captures their sense of time: there's so very much of it, it passes so slowly and it needs to be filled with expeditions and play. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical.Īs I've said before, Neil knows exactly how to get inside the mind of a child of any particular age, see the world through their eyes and then communicate it in just the right language and in just the right tone: eager to explore and quick to grow bored constantly demanding things yet not really wanting them a little bit stroppy but alive at the wonder of things.
She had three digestive biscuits and a glass of limeade. "For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible.
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