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When Coraline steps through a door in her family’s new house, she finds another house strangely similar to her own (only better). I am giving below a summary of the story as given in the inside flap. I finished reading it recently, and here is the review. Finally after a lot of thinking, I decided to get the graphic novel version, because I couldn’t resist it. So I was in two minds – whether to get the novel version or not. But I knew that later in the story this will change and the graphic novel version would have abbreviated some of the descriptions and events in the novel version. When I read through the first pages of both, I found that every line was there in both. So I got both the novel version and the graphic novel version out of the bookshelf and compared them. In the case of ‘Coraline’ the graphic novel was very appealing. When a book is first published as a novel and then adapted as a graphic novel, I try to read the novel version first and if I like it, I try reading the graphic novel version. When I went to the bookshop sometime back, I found that the graphic novel version of ‘Coraline’ was available and I was tempted to get it. The titles looked quite interesting and so I had put them on my reading list. Later one of my new friends, who is a Neil Gaiman connoisseur herself, introduced me to ‘Coraline’ and ‘The Graveyard book’. Since then I have read a few episodes of ‘Sandman’ but haven’t been able to read the whole series from the beginning to the end. One of my friends who inducted me into graphic novels introduced me to Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’. Coraline by Neil Gaiman (author) and P.Craig Russell (adapter and illustrator) – (graphic novel)