Journal Entry #1 - Coraline’s Diary Entry

Dear diary,

My name is Coraline Jones. I just moved into a new house with my mom and dad. It has an attic under the roof and a cellar under the ground and an overgrown garden with huge old trees in it. The house is fine, but in the drawing room there is an old wooden door. I don’t know why it’s there or what it leads to, but I’m going to find out. The house is too big for us to own all of it, so we only own part of it. There are two ladies named Miss Spink and Miss Forcible who live in the flat beneath us. In the flat above us lives a crazy old man with a big mustache. He tells me that he is training a mouse circus and he won’t let anyone see it, but I think he’s just making the whole idea up. I’m very bored so I am going to explore my new house.

From,

Coraline