Following the success of WOLVES IN THE WALLS this bright, bold and brilliant book brings back into print a classic work by Gaiman and McKean.
Neil Gaiman is the bestselling, multi prize-winning author of many books for adults, among them graphic novels and novels. He is also a screenplay writer and author of CORALINE AND WOLVES IN THE WALLS for the children's audience. Neil is British and lives in America. Dave McKean is a long-time collaborator of Neil's and has worked with him on many titles. Dave is also a film-maker and he lives in Sevenoaks, Kent.
Gr 6-9-Coraline fans too young for "The Sandman" series (DC Comics) form the most likely audience for this novella of the film MirrorMask. A fitful dream the night before her mother's surgery takes 15-year-old Helena to a world split into light and darkness. The queen of the White City is ill, and only the stolen MirrorMask can save her and her kingdom. As Helena's quest to find the Charm wears on, she realizes that she might not be dreaming after all. McKean's stark but lively pen-and-ink drawings perfectly reflect the narrative's sinister humor. The images from the film, however, are drab and unclear. While entertaining, this scant story is less developed than Gaiman's other work and, being a movie tie-in, threatens to join the growing pile of pop-culture ephemera all too soon.-Lisa Goldstein, Brooklyn Public Library, NY Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
"I admired the astringent dialogue, the mood of the illustrations this is a book to make distracted fathers insecure - when they put their papers down" The Observer
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