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The Golden Compass
Lyra is no ordinary child. Plucky, wild, feisty and fey, she leads a wild and carefree life trampling the roofs of Jordan College, Oxford, and fighting with the Gyptian children on the canal. But now children are mysteriously disappearing. A reign of terror is coming. And when Lyra’s friend Roger disappears, she sets off on a mission to save him.
It’s a journey into a frozen north of ice and snow, where witch-queens ride the skies, armoured bears roam the snow… and scientists are conducting experiments of unspeakable terror. Does one girl have the courage and cunning to stop them?
Now a hit film, this is the classic story of Lyra’s incredible journey to the frozen north – and the very edge of her world.
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lily69
3 May 2008
loved it
lyra has dreams of going to the north to see the witches and ice bears.but somthing isn’t right hostage children (orphans and servants) are up their where all sorts of nasty things happen. But when a beautiful but mysterious lady turns up to take lyra away. Lyras thoughts turn into dreams.
zebra123
17 Feb 2008
loved it
I think that The Golden Compass is a great book and it really loses you in it’s pages. I wouldn’t stop reading it until I had finished. My favourite character is Hester the hare daemon because she was ever so brave. Overall it was a brilliant book and I hated it when I finished it. : )
pirate123
30 Jan 2008
loved it
This is such a great book my daemon would be a horse you should read this book 5 out of 5!!!!!!!
frostie
23 Jan 2008
liked it
Really enjoyed this. Thought the idea of a “nearly but not quite the same” world was intriguing.Have read the rest of the trilogy, but haven’t seen the film. I’m told the film is nothing like as good as the book.
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Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman is a world-renowned writer. His novels have won every major award for children’s fiction, and are now also established as adult bestsellers. HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy came third in the BBC’s 2003 ‘Big Read’ competition to find the nation’s favourite book, ahead of HARRY POTTER. In 2005 he was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s biggest prize for children’s literature. New Line Cinema are producing the first HIS DARK MATERIALS movie for a major global release in December 2007.
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Northern Lights was published in hardback in July 1995. That year, it won the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and was Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards.
The Amber Spyglass won WHSmith Children’s Book of the Year 2000 at the British Book Awards, was Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal and was longlisted for The Booker Prize 2001. Philip Pullman was voted Whitaker Author of the Year by the Booksellers Association. The book has also been shortlisted for the South Bank Show Literature Award. Most recently The Amber Spyglass won both Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year and Whitbread Book of the Year 2001 and in doing so became the first children’s book to win the main prize in the award’s history.
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