Coraline by Neil Gaiman

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A delightfully creepy children's story which I recommend to all.

Coraline moves to a new home with her loving but distressingly human parents and discovers a secret door into a distorted mirror world. Here the the cat can talk and her 'other mother' waits to love her. As she explores she finds that while her boredom is gone; so are her parents and the ghostly voices of children long gone are advising her to flee.