Coraline کتابخوانی

Hey guys!

Are you ready to read a story book?

Today I’m here to introduce you a very nice book

which is the most appropriate for English learners in pre-intermediate or intermediate level.

The book name is “Coraline”.

Coraline is a dark fantasy children’s novella

by British author “Neil Gaiman”

published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and Harper Collins.

It was awarded several times

and I thought it would be a cool book to be introduced to you guys.

So let’s get straight into it

and read this amazing book!

Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house.

It was a very old house.

It had an attic under the roof

and a cellar under the ground

and an overgrown garden with huge trees in it.

Coraline’s family didn’t own all of the house.

It was too big for that.

Instead they owned part of it.

There were other people who lived in the old house.

Miss Spink and Miss Forcible lived in the flat below Coraline’s, on the ground floor.

They were both old and round

and they lived in their flat with a number of ageing Highland Terriers

who had names like Hamish and Andrew and Jock.

Once upon a time Miss Spink and Miss Forcible had been actresses

as Miss Spink told Coraline the first time she met her.

“You see Caroline,” Miss Spink said getting Coraline’s name wrong,

“both myself and Miss Forcible

were famous actresses, in our time.

We trod the boards.

Oh luvvy!

Oh don’t let Hamish eat the fruitcake

or he’ll be up all night with his tummy.”

“It’s Coraline. Not Caroline.

Coraline.” Said Coraline.

In the flat above Coraline’s

under the roof

was a crazy old man with a big mustache.

He told Coraline that he was training a mouse circus.

He wouldn’t let anyone see it.

“One day, little Caroline

when they are all ready

everyone in the whole world

will see the wonders of my mouse circus.

You ask me why you cannot see it now.

Is that what you asked me?”

“No,

I asked you not to call me Caroline.

It’s Coraline.”

“The reason you cannot see the mouse circus

is that the mice are not yet ready and rehearsed.

Also

they refuse to play the songs I have written for them.

All the songs I have written for the mice to play go oompah oompah.

But the white mice will only play Toodle Oodle, like that.

I am Thinking of trying them on different types of cheese.

Coraline didn’t think there really was a mouse circus.

She thought the old man was probably making it up.

The day after they moved in

Coraline went exploring.

She explored the garden.

It was a big garden

at the very back was an old tennis court

but no one in the house played tennis

and the fence around the court had holes in it

and the net was mostly rotted away

there was an old Rose garden filled with stunted flyblown rosebushes

there was a rockery that was all rocks

there was a fairy ring

made of squidgy brown toadstools

which smelled dreadful if you accidentally trod on them.

There was also a well.

On the first day Coraline’s family moved in

Miss Spink and Miss Forcible

made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was

and they wanted her to be sure she kept away from it.

So Coraline set off to explore for it

so that she knew where it was

to keep away from it probably.

She found it on the third day…

And That was a part of this story book.

I hope you enjoyed and liked it.

If you want to read the whole novella

it is available on Zabanshenas app

with an audio file for which you can set the speed.

So you can read the story

and listen to it at the same time…

And what’s better than this?

Take care of yourselves!

Buh-Bye =)