Discover His Dark Materials - Golden Compass: "Northern Lights", "Subtle Knife", "Amber Spyglass"

His Dark Materials - Golden Compass: "Northern Lights", "Subtle Knife", "Amber Spyglass"

volume 1, His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman

No. of pages 1296

Published: 2007

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Great for age 10-18 years

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Philip Pullman's best-selling, award-winning trilogy in one slipcase. The first book, NORTHERN LIGHTS, was filmed as THE GOLDEN COMPASS, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, and filmed by New Line Cinema, creators of the LORD OF THE RINGS film trilogy. Sice the first volume was published in 1995, the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, and has won the UK's top awards for children's literature. Today, the fabulous story of Lyra an her daemon is read and loved by adults and children alike. Thextraordinary story moves between parallel universes. Beginning in Oxford, it takes Lyra and her animal-daemon Pantalaimon on a dagerous rescue mission to the ice kingdoms of the far North, where she begins to learn about the mysterious particles they call Dut - a substance for which a terrible war between different worlds will be fought..."This trilogy is one of the great imaginativ works in the English language. And it contains one of the best villains in all literature." - Terry Jones Philip Pullman has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Children's Book of the Year - British Book Awards, the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Astrid Lindgren Award.

This is volume 1 in His Dark Materials .

There are 1296 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Scholastic .

Philip Pullman is one of the most highly respected children's authors writing today. He lives in Oxford.

This book is in the following series:

His Dark Materials
His Dark Materials is a trilogy by Philip Pullman's which tells of a parallel world where people's souls have physical form in the shape of a daemon. This spellbinding adventure featuring armoured polar bears, magical devices, witches and daemons, is also a re-imagining of Milton's Paradise Lost.