The world of Philip Pullman s internationally bestselling His Dark Materials saga is brought to visual life in book 1 of a three-Volume Graphic adaptation of "The Golden Compass." Lyra Belacqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon familiar always by her side. com.". com and hisdarkmaterials.
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Philip Pullman is the author of many books for young readers, including two volumes related to the His Dark Materials trilogy: "Lyra s Oxford" and "Once Upon a Time in the North." He lives in Oxford, England.
In 2004, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. " The Washington Post"About the Author: PHILIP Pullman has won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal for "The Golden Compass" (and the reader-voted Carnegie of Carnegies for the best children s book of the past seventy years); the Whitbread (now Costa) Award for "The Amber Spyglass;" a Booker Prize long-list nomination ("The Amber Spyglass"); "Parents Choice" Gold Awards ("The Subtle Knife" and "The Amber Spyglass"); and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in honor of his body of work. all-stops-out thrilling. . .
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The stunning full-color art offers both new and returning readers a chance to experience the story of Lyra, an ordinary girl with an extraordinary role to play in the fates of multiple worlds, in an entirely new way.
As she hurtles toward danger in the cold far North, Lyra never suspects the shocking truth: she alone is destined to win or to lose this more-than-mortal battle.
But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, and a mysterious substance known as Dust.
The world of Philip Pullman s internationally bestselling His Dark Materials saga is brought to visual life in book 1 of a three-Volume Graphic adaptation of "The Golden Compass." Lyra Belacqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon familiar always by her side
