Coraline : Be Careful What You Wish For

'"I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."

"Does she even have a grave?" asked Coraline.

"Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back."'

- Page 93, Coraline.

Read the book before the movie, otherwise you really don't get why the cat is there, and you get the experience without Whybie.

Anyway, I read this book, and it was amazing. Imagine Alice in Wonderland with a creepy twist and buttons. It's about a girl named Coraline, who wishes for a better, more interesting life. Soon, she gets it, but in the most unsuspected way: a whole new world, complete with an Other Mother, an Other Father, and Other people in her life back home, and they all have buttons for eyes. Little does Coraline know that, despite the fantastical and amazing new things in this world, it's all a trap.

Basically it's a whole 'be careful what you wish for' deal. Coraline is actually a really amazing book, and Neil Gaiman is an amazing author (wrote the book Stardust, which was made into a movie, as well.) with an insane amount of imagination. I read it and couldn't stop thinking about the buttons-for-eyes idea. I highly suggest it to anyone looking for a good read.