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His Dark Materials Trilogy

Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available as a stunning bind-up edition. Since the first volume was published in 1995 and has now been filmed as The Golden Compass" 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 and her daemon is read and loved by adults and children alike. The extraordinary story moves between parallel universes. Beginning in Oxford it takes Lyra and her animal-daemon Pantalaimon on a dangerous rescue mission to the ice kingdoms of the far North where she begins to learn about the mysterious particles they call Dust - a substance for which a terrible war between different worlds will be fought..."This trilogy is one of the great imaginative works in the English
language. And it contains one of the bestillains 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."
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Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available as a stunning bind-up edition. Since the first volume was published in 1995 & has now been filmed as The Golden Compass" the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece & has won the UK's top awards for children's literature. Today the fabulous story of Lyra & her daemon is read & loved by adults & children alike. The extraordinary story moves between parallel universes. Beginning in Oxford it takes Lyra & her animal-daemon Pantalaimon on a dangerous rescue mission to the ice kingdoms of the far North where she begins to learn about the mysterious particles they call Dust
- a substance for which a terrible war between different worlds will be fought..." This trilogy is one of the great imaginative works in the English language. & it contains one of the bestillains 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 & the Astrid Lindgren Award."

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