书名：Coraline 鬼妈妈
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数740L
适读年龄：8-12岁
作者：Neil Gaiman; Dave Mckean
出版社名称：HarperTrophy
出版时间：2003
语种：英文
ISBN：9780380807345
商品尺寸：13 x 1.1 x 19.4 cm
包装：平装
页数：208

Coraline《鬼妈妈》是英国知名作家尼尔·盖曼的畅销小说，曾获2002年布莱姆·斯托克奖，被评为2003年雨果奖中篇小说、星云奖中篇小说以及2003年美国图书协会青少年读物。2009年，据其改编的同名动画片上映，再度引发极大反响。
推荐理由：
1. 奇幻动画电影《鬼妈妈》英文原著，一部既写给孩子又写给大人看的幻想小说；
2. 雨果奖、星云奖大奖作品，用词不难，容易看懂，特别适合儿童或青少年阅读；
3. 十周年纪念版，内容无删减，含作者新作序言、阅读指南等。
This edition of New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman’s modern classic,Coraline—also an Academy Award-nominated film—is enriched with a foreword from the author, a reader’s guide, and more. 
Review:
“Gaiman’s tale is inventive, scary, thrilling and finally affirmative. Readers young and old will find something to startle them.”— Washington Post Book World
“Coraline is by turns creepy and funny, bittersweet and playful…can be read quickly and enjoyed deeply.”— San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
“A modern ghost story with all the creepy trimmings…Well done.”— New York Times Book Review
“A magnificently creepy story… Coraline is spot on.”— Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“Gaiman’s pacing is superb, and he steers the tension of the tale with a deft and practiced narrative touch.”— Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, rise to your feet and applaud:Coraline is the real thing.”— Philip Pullman,The Guardian
“The most splendidly original, weird, and frightening book I have read, and yet full of things children will love.”  — Diana Wynne Jones
“It has the delicate horror of the finest fairy tales, and it is a masterpiece.”— Terry Pratchett
“An electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Walk through the door and you’ll believe in love, magic, and the power of good over evil.”— USA Today
“So wonderfully whimsical that readers of all ages will hungrily devour it.Coraline is destined to become a classic.— Globe and Mail (Toronto)
“Chilly, finely-wrought prose, a truly weird setting and a fable that taps into our most uncomfortable fears.”— Times Educational Supplement
“A deliciously scary book that we loved reading together as a family.”— Orson Scott Card
“Beautifully spooky. Gaiman actually seems to understand the way children think. ” — Christian Science Monitor
“A truly creepy tale. Beware those button eyes!”— Family Fun Magazine

一扇紧锁的门被打开了，这是一扇通往另一个世界的鬼魅之门。女孩考罗琳一走进去，就发现了潜伏在门后面的秘密：在这个房子里，她有另外一个“妈妈”，这个亲切的“妈妈”有一双黑纽扣眼睛，她要把她永远地留下来，在镜子后边，她还看到了三个迷失的灵魂，那都是被困在这里许多年的孩子了。为了逃出魔爪，为了拯救自己，逃回到门那边真正的妈妈身边，她必须运用自己的智慧了……
When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.
But there’s another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.
Coraline will have to fight with all her wits and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
Celebrating ten years of Neil Gaiman’s first modern classic for young readers, this edition is enriched with a brand-new foreword from the author, a reader’s guide, and more.

Neil Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novelsStardust,American Gods,Coraline, andThe Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work,The Graveyard Book(2008). In 2013,The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.
Dave McKeanis best known for his work on Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series of graphic novels and for his CD covers for musicians from Tori Amos to Alice Cooper. He also illustrated Neil Gaiman’s picture books The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, The Wolves in the Walls, and Crazy Hair. He is a cult figure in the comic book world, and is also a photographer.
尼尔·盖曼（Neil Gaiman，1960—）是近十年来欧美文坛崛起的耀眼的明星，被视为新一代幻想文学的代表。其创作领域横跨幻想小说、科幻小说、恐怖小说、儿童小说、漫画以及歌词。他的作品不但部部畅销，更获奖无数。《文学传记辞典》将他列为十大后现代作家之一。代表作有《睡魔》《鬼妈妈》《美国众神》等。
戴夫·麦基恩为Ray Bradbury，SF Said，David Almond，Heston Blumenthal，JohnCale，Stephen King和Neil Gaiman等众多作者的获奖图书和连环画做过插图和设计，他为《鬼妈妈》（Coraline）和《坟场故事》（The Graveyard Book）（获Newbery和Carnegie奖）画过插图。他自己创作的Cages赢得过很多漫画奖。他设计过数百种画册、漫画和图书封面，为两部《哈利波特》电影设计过人物形象。他还导演过故事片《镜面具》（Mirror Mask）和《月亮》（Luna）。

Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house.
It was a very old house — it had an attic under the roof and a cellar under the ground and an overgrown garden with huge old trees in it.
Coraline’s family didn’t own all of the house, it was too big for that. Instead they owned part of it.
There were other people who lived in the old house.
Miss Spink and Miss Forcible lived in the flat below Coraline’s, on the ground floor. They were both old and round, and they lived in their flat with a number of ageing highland terriers who had names like Hamish and Andrew and Jock. Once upon a time Miss Spink and Miss Forcible had been actresses, as Miss Spink told Coraline the first time she met her.
“You see, Caroline,” Miss Spink said, getting Coraline’s name wrong, “Both myself and Miss Forcible were famous actresses, in our time. We trod the boards, luvvy. Oh, don’t let Hamish eat the fruit cake, or he’ll be up all night with his tummy.”
“It’s Coraline. Not Caroline. Coraline,” said Coraline.
In the flat above Coraline’s, under the roof, was a crazy old man with a big moustache. He told Coraline that he was training a mouse circus. He wouldn’t let anyone see it.
“One day, little Caroline, when they are all ready, everyone in the whole world will see the wonders of my mouse circus. You ask me why you cannot see it now. Is that what you asked me?”
“No,” said Coraline quietly, “I asked you not to call me Caroline. It’s Coraline.”
“The reason you cannot see the Mouse Circus,” said the man upstairs, “is that the mice are not yet ready and rehearsed. Also, they refuse to play the songs I have written for them. All the songs I have written for the mice to play go oompah oompah. But the white mice will only play toodle oodle, like that. I am thinking of trying them on different types of cheese.”
Coraline didn’t think there really was a mouse circus. She thought the old man was probably making it up.
The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring.
She explored the garden. It was a big garden: at the very back was an old tennis court, but no-one in the house played tennis and the fence around the court had holes in it and the net had mostly rotted away; there was an old rose garden, filled with stunted, flyblown rose-bushes; there was a rockery that was all rocks; there was a fairy ring, made of squidgy brown toadstools which smelled dreadful if you accidentally trod on them.