MirrorMask (children's edition)
Grade 6-9&ndash;Coralinefans too young for The Sandman series (DC Comics) form the most likely audience for this novella of the filmMirrorMask. A fitful dream the night before her mothers surgery takes 15-year-old Helena to a world split into light and darkness. The queen of the White City is ill, and only the stolen MirrorMask can save her and her kingdom. As Helenas quest to find the Charm wears on, she realizes that she might not be dreaming after all. McKeans stark but lively pen-and-ink drawings perfectly reflect the narratives sinister humor. The images from the film, however, are drab and unclear. While entertaining, this scant story is less developed than Gaimans other work and, being a movie tie-in, threatens to join the growing pile of pop-culture ephemera all too soon.&ndash;Lisa Goldstein, Brooklyn Public Library, NYCopyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.