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?Gaiman?s tale is inventive, scary, thrilling and finally affirmative. Readers young and old will find something to startle them.? (Washington Post Book World )?Coraline is by turns creepy and funny, bittersweet and playful?can be read quickly and enjoyed deeply.? (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review )?A modern ghost story with all the creepy trimmings?Well done.? (New York Times Book Review )?A magnificently creepy story?Coraline is spot on.? (Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review )?Gaiman?s pacing is superb, and he steers the tension of the tale with a deft and practiced narrative touch.? (Bulletin of the Center for Children?s Books )?Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, rise to your feet and applaud: Coraline is the real thing.? (Philip Pullman, The Guardian )?The most splendidly original, weird, and frightening book I have read, and yet full of things children will love.? (Diana Wynne Jones )?It has the delicate horror of the finest fairy tales, and it is a masterpiece.? (Terry Pratchett )?An electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons.? (Publishers Weekly (starred review) )? Walk through the door and you?ll believe in love, magic, and the power of good over evil.? (USA Today )?So wonderfully whimsical that readers of all ages will hungrily devour itCoraline is destined to become a classic. (Globe and Mail (Toronto) )?Chilly, finely-wrought prose, a truly weird setting and a fable that taps into our most uncomfortable fears.? (Times Educational Supplement )?A deliciously scary book that we loved reading together as a family.? (Orson Scott Card )?Beautifully spooky. Gaiman actually seems to understand the way children think. ? (Christian Science Monitor )?A truly creepy tale. Beware those button eyes!? (Family Fun Magazine )

Murder on the Orient Express is a tour-de-force variation on the theme of the English house-party, gathering a remarkable set of characters, each a secretive soul, for a journey on the fabled Orient Express train as it travels from Istanbul to Paris. On hand to resolve the murder of an American passenger is Hercule Poirot, the dapper Belgian detective, dependent only on his wit, who tucks away obscure, seemingly unrelated minutiae in his facile mind. When he determines that the corpse was a renowned child kidnapper/killer, he begins to wonder about connections between the passengers and the victim. A misplaced button, overheard conversations, a monogrammed handkerchief, and an elusive figure clad in a scarlet kimono all become clues as Hercule Poirot interrogates the snow-trapped travelers and comes to his own conclusions. Murder on the Orient Express, with its skill plot construction, adroit writing, and thought-provoking revelations, reminds us that what is "just" is not always what is legal..