About.com’s Contemporary Literature Site has a review of Anansi Boys, giving it a 4.5/5. Anansi Boys is a quick and terribly enjoyable book. Gaiman keeps things moving along, with far fewer digressions than those that crowded American Gods. But that book was more psychologically complex than this one, and more […]

Happy Halloween! Yvonne Zipp’s review of Coraline appeared in today’s Christian Science Monitor. “…Unlike many of the other adult writers trying their hand at a children’s tale, Gaiman actually seems to understand the way children think. And his writing has the pared-down elegance of the best fairy tales…” While that […]

From PW Daily for Booksellers (October 17, 2002): As a writer, transplanted Brit Neil Gaiman has always had the proverbial irons in lots of different fires, winning accolades for his comics (Sandman), novels (American Gods), children’s books (Coraline, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish) and a BBC […]

From today’s Children’s Books in Brief section in the New York Times: CORALINE. By Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Dave McKean. HarperCollins. $15.99. (Ages 8 and up) A modern ghost story with all the creepy trimmings: Coraline and her parents have moved into a new house with one locked door. Behind […]

Julia Bookman; “Kids’ Corner: Pick of the Week”; Atlanta Journal & Constitution; Aug 04, 2002; p.H2. Curiosity may have killed a cat or two, but for little Coraline it opens the door, literally, into a freaky otherworld of ghoulish blobs and creatures, evil singing rats, a helpful talking black cat […]

“Children’s novel Coraline likened to Alice in Wonderland, Narnia Chronicles”; Canadian Press; July 30, 2002. If the ghoulish cover art _ a host of shadowy hands clutching and grasping at a startled little girl _ doesn’t set the tone for the children’s novel Coraline the following endorsement from the book’s […]

Alice D. Harris; “Girl Disenchanted with Parents Enters Porthold to Parallel World in ‘Coraline’”; Stuart News/Port St. Lucie News; July 28, 2002; pF7. Coraline, a modern fairy tale that is both fascinating and frightening, is the story of a young girl who is bored with her ordinary life and preoccupied […]

Sara O’Leary; “Here comes a new children’s classic”;Vancouver Sun; July 27, 2002; p.E23. I’ve just read a new book for young readers. Twice. What does that tell you? Either that I’m younger than I look or one of those weird crossover children’s books that adults love has just been unleashed […]

Jean Westmoore; “Children’s selections”; Buffalo News; July 21, 2002; p.F5. It’s probably risky to declare a new book a classic, but “Coraline” seems destined to become one. This terrifying and delightfully inventive story (by the author of “American Gods”) tells of a little girl named Coraline whose grumbling about her […]

Kelly DiNardo; “Little ‘Coraline’ opens door to an ‘other’ world”; USA Today; Jul 16, 2002; p.5D At the author’s request we have removed the text of this review. The full text is available here on the USAToday web site.