The Firework-Maker's Daughter

Lila dreams of being a firework-maker like her father. But it isn’t all about creating Crackle-Dragons and Golden Sneezes. Like every firework-maker before her, Lila must also make a nightmarish journey to battle Razvani, the evil Fire-Fiend! On her journey, she outwits pirates, outlandish beasts and a furious emperor. But will she survive the Fire-Fiend’s blazing wrath? Can two friends and the King’s white elephant save her? Inspired by Philip Pullman’s own love of fireworks and their names – ‘Incandescent Fountain,’ ‘Golden Vesuvius’ – this exotic story crackles with suspense and wonder.

“One of those rare books with a confident magic all their own… delivered with a lightness of touch that is sheer genius.” Independent

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Beavereva1234

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I really enjoyed this book…the description was amazing and the cohesion between paragraphs was incredible as questions it didn’t answer then, it would answer later on. Also the story was just genius and I really couldn’t stop reading it.

1 November 2018
story

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This book was very interesting and adventuring I would recommend it to 6+ and I also wish the book went on and never ended!

11 May 2018
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i like it i think the author is very talented and imaginative.

29 October 2017
PA-101430

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I read up to page 15 and it is soooooo interesting. I really want to carry on

7 March 2017
Haven

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The Firework Maker Lalchand has a great experience of being a firework maker. Lila his daughter has always wanted to be a firework maker and her Father won’t let her. She needs the three gifts which are Talent, Courage and Luck. But she didn’t know what they were when she went to see Razvani. She also needed the magic water from the Moon Goddess but luckily Chulak bought to her. Meanwhile Lilas father Lalchand had been locked up in the Kings castle. But if they won the firework display with longest applause he he wouldn’t be killed. But will they beat all of the contestants? Will be continued!!!

21 November 2014

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Authors

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.