This book has been graded for interest at 10-13 years.
There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Turtleback Books .
Philip Pullman is one of the most highly respected children's authors writing today. He lives in Oxford. Peter Bailey has been illustrating books for more than thirty-five years and has worked with many of today's best known authors, including Philip Pullman, Allan Ahlberg, Michael Morpurgo and Joan Aiken. He lives near Liverpool with his wife, Sian, who is also an illustrator. Leonid Gore moved to the United States from his native Russia in 1991. He has illustrated many children's picture books, and lives with his wife and daughter in Brooklyn.
This book contains the following story:
Clockwork
It's a snowy winter night in the town, and a young apprentice clockmaker is in despair. Tradition holds that each apprentice must design and build a mechanical figure to be added to the town's impressive clockwork. Karl has not even begun work on his design so when a stranger offers him a wondrous piece of clockwork, a knight so intricate, so real, that to pass it off as his own would make Karl forever famous, Karl is ... tempted. However, once Karl accepts the 'gift', there seems to be no stopping the events which unfold like inexorable clockwork in a series of interlocking stories
