Coraline
By Neil Gaiman

Summary
When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life

Analysis
This is another great fantasy book to introduce young readers. Neil Gaiman tells a tale that mirrors Alice's trip down the rabbit hole. This is a great book to read around Halloween. The book's illustrations feature amazing usage of optical illusions. For an activity, students would create their own self portrait with a strange shadow. The final versions of these projects would be displayed all around classroom during Halloween. The book also mentions fortune telling. After talking with my students about its history and how it is still used today (for example astrology) I would have create their own fortunes and place them in a jar. The students would then reach into the jar and read a fortune from some one else. Students would then use this a story starter for a creative writing prompt.