Look insideThe 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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Recent reviews
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fab book- follows the film very well.Loads of complex punctuation with load of adventures words.
4 April 2010
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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.
3 May 2008
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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. : )
17 February 2008
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This is such a great book my daemon would be a horse you should read this book 5 out of 5!!!!!!!
30 January 2008
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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.
23 January 2008
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Authors
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Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman is probably the world’s most acclaimed living children’s author, best known for the trilogy of books known as His Dark Materials.
Awards
Philip won the Nestle Smarties award for both Clockwork and The Firework Maker’s Daughter. 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 Amber Spyglass went on to win 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.
Philip has also been recognised with two major awards for his contribution to literature: the Eleanor Farjeon award in 2002, and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize in 2005.
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