Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, Coraline discovers a hidden door to a fantasy version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.
"I wanted it to have a girl as a heroine, and I wanted it to be refreshingly creepy. I started to write a story about a girl named Coraline. I thought that the story would be five or ten pages long. The story itself had other plans....It's the strangest book I've written, it took the longest time to write, and it's the book I'm proudest of."