Like those filmmakers Mr. Selick is interested in childhood not as a condition of sentimentalized, passive innocence but rather as an active, seething state of receptivity in which consciousness itself is a site of wondrous, at times unbearable drama.
Cornered in a Parallel World, A.O. Scott’s reivew of Coraline.
I read the book (do we still say that even if it was the audiobook? anyway…) and the picture Gaiman’s voice painted in my head is wildly different to Mr. Selick’s interpretation, but my fondness for Selick’s work on The Nightmare Before Christmas leads me to believe I won’t be disappointed.
