When Coraline moves to a new house she is fascinated by the fact that their house is in fact only half a house Divided into flats years before the other flat it soon becomes clear to Coraline is not quite as cosy & safe as her own ...

When Coraline explores her new home she steps through a door & into another house just like her own
- except that things aren't
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Coraline Jones (voiced by Dakota Fanning) & her parents (Teri Hatcher John Hodgman) have moved into the Pink Palace a once-vibrant boarding house that&s turned drab & dilapidated As her parents work feverishly on a new gardening catalog the bored & belligerent Coraline is admonished to explore her new world&s possibilities Along the way she meets her fellow tenants including two aging English showgirls & a mouse-training Russian acrobat as well as an outcast neighbourhood boy named Wybie But it is a mysterious hidden door that most piques Coraline&s interest--a gateway to a parallel world where her &other& parents & neighbours live only to see Coraline well fed & endlessly entertained All is not cakes & carnivals for Coraline though & the black buttons that have replaced the eyes of these otherworldly imitations hint at darker intentions When these intentions are revealed Cora & a friendly magical cat use their wits & willpower to defeat Coraline&s wicked &other mother& & restore balance in the real world ...

There is something strange about Coraline&s new home It&s not the mist or the cat that always seems to be watching her nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink & Miss Forcible her new neighbours read in the tea leaves It&s the other house
- the one behind the old door in the drawing room Another mother & father with black-button eyes & papery skin are waiting for Coraline to join them there & they want her to stay with them For ever She knows that if she ventures through that door she may never come back
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From the visionary director of The Nightmare Before Christmas & based on Neil Gaiman’s best-selling book comes this spectacular stop-motion animated adventure! Coraline Jones (Dakota Fanning) is bored until she finds a secret door & discovers an alternate better version of her life on the other side When this seemingly perfect world turns dangerous & her other parents
- including her Other Mother (Teri Hatcher)
- try to trap her forever; Coraline must use her resourcefulness determination & bravery to escape this perilous world
- & save her family


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" Sometimes funny always creepy genuinely moving this marvellous spine-chiller will appeal to readers from nine to ninety"
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Coraline Bendy Fashion Doll Assortment Set Description Experience the world of Coraline! Detailed figures
- loads of fun! Collect
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The third feature length film from the awardwinning & uniquely creative Laika studios The Boxtrolls is a highly original fun-for-all-the-family adventure featuring the adorably mischievous Boxtrolls; cute timid subterranean creatures that find ingenious uses for the refuse of the human inhabitants of the town of Cheesebridge But The Boxtrolls are disappearing each day as the dreaded Red Hat exterminators hunt them down & only a young human boy called Eggs can rally them to find their inner hero & stack together to save the day ...

The Whitbread 2000 Book of the Year is a haunting & captivating work of historical fiction for children The Coram man takes babies & money from desperate mothers promising to deliver them safely to a Foundling Hospital in London Instead he murders them & buries them by the roadside to the helpless horror of his mentally ill son Mish Mish saves one Aaron who grows up happily unaware of his history proving himself a promising musician As Aaron's new life takes him closer to his real family the watchful Mish makes a terrible mistake delivering Aaron & his best friend Toby back into the hands of the Coram man It tells the story of a dark time in English history Fans of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas & Goodnight Mr Tom will love this A great read for children aged 10 Look out for Jamilla's other titles The Eye of the Horse The Robber Baron's Daughter The Track of the Wind Wheel of Surya Coram Boy won the 2000 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal & has been adapted into a highly acclaimed stage play Jamila Gavin was born in Mussoorie India in the foothills of the Himalayas With an Indian father & an English mother she inherited two rich cultures which ran side by side throughout her life & which always made her feel she belonged to both countries The family finally settled in England where Jamila completed her schooling was a music student worked for the BBC & became a mother of two children It was then that she began writing children's books & felt a need to reflect the multi-cultural world in which she & her children now lived ...

An epic adventure filled with danger & excitement Perfect for studying author s craft plot & comparing two writers from different centuries On stage this script is great for creating high dramatic tension & provides 15 colourful parts ...