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Neil Gaiman's Coraline - Theme of Family
It’s easy to take people for granted when you’re around them every single day. Even though they’re the most important people in your life! Enter: the Other Mother. Could she be the perfect replacement for Coraline’s boring folks? Watch...
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Neil Gaiman's Coraline - Chapters 8-10 Summary
Deep in the Other Mother’s world, Coraline must be calm and courageous to save everyone she cares about. She challenges the Other Mother to a deadly, high-stakes game. Coraline will put her talents as an explorer to use, but will the...
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Neil Gaiman's Coraline - Chapters 1-4 Summary
Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones considers herself quite the explorer. When her family moves into a big old house in the English countryside, Coraline investigates every nook and cranny! She even finds a mysterious door leading into...
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Neil Gaiman's Coraline - Theme of Illusions and Reality
Illusions can be fun – that’s why magicians are so fascinating! But the Other Mother weaponises illusions to trap Coraline in her strange world. Can Coraline see through them in time? And how do illusions help us see our realities more...
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Neil Gaiman's Coraline - Theme of Identity
Coraline thinks she’s got her 11-year-old identity sorted out. She’s an explorer who loves challenges and detests fancy recipes! Simple, right? But when she meets her horrifying ‘Other Mother’, Coraline discovers some surprising things...
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Neil Gaiman's Coraline - Theme of Growing Up
Let’s be honest – growing up means more than just getting taller and stronger! There is a powerful internal change that happens as we mature. After all, Coraline enters the Other Mother’s world as a dissatisfied, bored 11-year-old. But...
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Neil Gaiman's Coraline - Theme of Courage
Fear is an essential part of children’s stories. It’s only when things are truly frightening that the hero must be courageous enough to face them! What makes the Other Mother and her strange world so scary? Coraline must gather all her...
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Neil Gaiman's Coraline - Overall Plot Summary
Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones loves exploring. Luckily for her, the family have just moved into a big old house in the English countryside. Behind a mysterious door in the drawing room a different world beckons. There is a woman with...
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Neil Gaiman's Coraline - Context
Did you know that the name ‘Coraline’ originally started as a typo? Once her name appeared on the screen, Neil Gaiman had to find out what happened to her! And did you know that P. Craig Russell is an award-winning comics artist,...
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Neil Gaiman's Coraline - Chapters 5-7 Summary
Coraline has managed to escape the Other Mother’s world – phew! But now that Coraline is back in the real world, something is very wrong. To make things right again, Coraline must step back into the Other World – just what the Other...
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Neil Gaiman's Coraline - Chapters 11-13 Summary
This is it! Coraline will finally confront the Other Mother in a dramatic showdown. Souls are at stake and the Other Mother has a reputation for playing dirty. Coraline will have to be tricky and daring to win this deadly game. But even...
PBS
Are Graphic Novels... Novels? (Feat. Princess Weekes)
In the past few decades, literature has expanded to not only mean the “novel” but “graphic novels” as well. Today we are gonna break down how the graphic novel went from the comic book store to the classroom. Hosted by Lindsay Ellis and...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Matthew Holm
Matt Holm has always loved to draw, especially comics. With his sister Jennifer Holm, he co-created two enormously popular graphic novels series - one featuring a pink-obsessed mouse (Babymouse) and another starring a brave amoeba...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier writes and illustrates graphic novels for middle grade readers. Many of her books are autobiographical and deeply personal, especially her 2019 novel, Guts, which explores her own struggles with anxiety. Raina has also...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Gene Yang
Gene Luen Yang began drawing comic books in the fifth grade. In 2006, his graphic novel, American Born Chinese - a memoir about growing up as an Asian American - became the first graphic novel to win the American Library Association's...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Jennifer Holm
Jennifer Holm has always loved reading. She recalls this: "One of our neighbors said that his clearest memory of me as a child was watching me rake the lawn one-handed while I read a book with the other!" Holm has co-authored a series of...
Primary Games
Primary Games: Dc Super Friends: Chapter 9: Plan B
This is a video in which Superman tries invites Bizarro to join the Super Friends. [3:59]
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Rh Kids: Babymouse Campaign Ad
This is a video of the trailer for The Babymouse Election. Babymouse #16: Babymouse for President. What the student council needs, is Babymouse. The only trouble is, everyone else is running for President, too-even Babymouse's locker!...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Publication Design: Lesson 1
In this lesson, you will learn about Publication Design. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Publication Design."