Coraline by Neil Gaiman

[lightreads]

Fiction. Kidlit where bored young girl goes through a mysterious door and falls out in a different universe controlled by the creepifying "other mother." Rather formulaic, but with glimmers of edges that come from kidlit with a gloss of adult implication (the other mother says a few things about "forgiving the sinner, not the sin" that make me wonder just what she's supposed to represent). Still very much kidlit, though, which means I enjoyed but will shortly forget. Because like Blues Clues, writing for children which is actually comprehensible and fun for children is pretty staggeringly dull.