Title: Coraline: A Visual Companion Writer: Stephen JonesPublisher: Titan Books (£19.99, Hardback) When you have a spellbinding book, the magic spills off the page and fires the imagination of ...

But “Coraline” has pictures — how humiliating for a 20 year old! Here’s the thing: Pictures are valuable additions to books. My edition of “Coraline” features illustrations by Dave McKean that look ...

I first noticed Jon Klassen's illustrations in I Want My Hat Back, though I realized later that he was also the illustrator of a series of middle-grade books, The Incorrigible Children of Ashton ...

While the best graphic novels manage to set their own pervasive atmosphere from the first illustration, Coraline often seems uncertain about where it's going and what it's all about.