MirrorMask (children's edition)
While most kids long to run away and join the circus, Helena dreams of running away to join the real world. Until the day she wakes up to find herself in a strange new place populated by mysterious creatures a dreamworld where she is about to embark on an amazing journey.
While most kids long to run away and join the circus, Helena dreams of running away to join the real world. Until the day she wakes up to find herself in a strange new place populated by mysterious creatures a dreamworld where she is about to embark on an amazing journey.
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Format: hardcover
ASIN: B000ILZ5I8
Publish date: 2005-10-01
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
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GR Cleanup. Originally read in Sept. 2011 I think I did myself a disservice by listening to this story as an audiobook instead of checking out the actual illustrated book. I have a sneaking suspicion the illustrations enhance much of the story, which felt a bit bare bones without them, and that I'...
A lot of seeds and echos of other Gaiman/McKean collaborations. That is empirically not a bad thing! Especially because unlike some other creators I will leave unnamed, they always bring so much new stuff. Great book. "Illustrated novelization" I think they called it. I will be seeing this movi...
This and Coraline are both based on an alternate world. Their other world seems to come into being or becomes more accessible when dissatisfaction arises with a parent in the real world. Here the comparison ends and I find myself enjoying MirrorMask much more then Coraline. I think it's partially t...
Helena is a 15 year old girl who hates her life in the circus. She tells her parents she just wants to run away and have a "real life". Unfortunately, Helena's mom then falls ill, and while she's in the hospital, Helena is thrown into a very strange dreamland: a strange, dark realm like a mirror o...
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