Coraline

Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
read: 2019

Coraline wound up being the first non-picture book my son read. Well, there are occasional pictures, and I read probably every other page, but it counts.

I just watched the movie and while I think the visual feel was a great fit for the story, there were some changes I disliked. It seemed like they minimized Coraline's cleverness and resourcefulness at several points. In the novel, she finds most of the "ghost's eyes" through thoroughness and a keen eye; in the movie, it's more serendipity. In the book, she lays a shrewd trap for the Beldam's hand; in the movie, her neighbor Wybie (a character not found in the book) saves her.