The Imagination Chamber: Philip Pullman's breathtaking return to the world of His Dark Materials: cosmic rays from Lyra's universe

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Pauli, Michelle (21 June 2007). "Pullman wins 'Carnegie of Carnegies' ". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 4 May 2010. Grenier, Cynthia (October 2001). "Philip Pullman's Dark Materials". The Morley Institute Inc . Retrieved 5 April 2007. New Line Cinema released a film adaptation, titled The Golden Compass, on 7 December 2007. Directed by Chris Weitz, the production had a mixed reception, and though worldwide sales were strong, its U.S. earnings were not as high as the studio had hoped. [50] Meanwhile, Taran Marathu’s Summoner series, The Novicebeing the first, combines traditional fantasy elements, such as elves and dwarves, with the story of a boy with a demon that is both friend and weapon. Epic and gripping, this is a must-read.

And if that doesn’t get your blood pumping, The Thief Who Sang Storms by Sophie Anderson is sure to. Linnet’s journey to bring the peoples of her island together is fraught with danger, and full of unexpected magic. Watch out for the alligator pools! Flood, Alison (17 December 2014). "Baddies in books: Mrs Coulter, the mother of all evil". The Guardian . Retrieved 10 June 2015.As a passionate believer in the democracy of reading, I don't think it's the task of the author of a book to tell the reader what it means.

Pullman expressed surprise over what he considered to be a relatively low level of criticism for His Dark Materials on religious grounds, saying "I've been surprised by how little criticism I've got. Harry Potter's been taking all the flak... Meanwhile, I've been flying under the radar, saying things that are far more subversive than anything poor old Harry has said. My books are about killing God". [36] Others support this interpretation, arguing that the series, while clearly anticlerical, is also anti-theological because the death of God is represented as a fundamentally unimportant question. [37]

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Will, Lyra, Tialys and Salmakia journey to the Land of the Dead, temporarily parting with their dæmons to release the ghosts from their captivity. Mary Malone, a scientist from Will's world interested in "shadows" (or Dust in Lyra's world), travels to a land populated by strange sentient creatures called Mulefa. There, she comes to understand the true nature of Dust, which is both created by and nourishes life that has become self-aware. Lord Asriel and the reformed Mrs Coulter work to destroy the Authority's Regent Metatron. They succeed, but themselves suffer annihilation in the process by pulling Metatron into the abyss. Abley, Mark (4 December 2007). "Writing the book on intolerance". The Star. Toronto . Retrieved 4 May 2010. Mary Malone, is a physicist and former nun from Will's world. She meets Lyra during Lyra's first visit to Will's world. Lyra provides Mary with insight into the nature of Dust. Agents of the Church force Mary to flee to the world of the Mulefa. There she constructs the amber spyglass, which enables her to see the otherwise invisible Dust. Her purpose is to learn why Dust, which Mulefa civilisation depends on, is flowing out of the universe. Lyra and Pan re-learning how to read the (forgive me I've since forgotten how to spell it) aletheometer and then telling Will seems so sweet

Near Bolvangar, the Gobbler research station, Lyra finds an abandoned child who has been cut from his dæmon; the Gobblers are experimenting on children by severing the bond between human and dæmon, a procedure called intercision.John Parry is Will's father. He is an explorer from our world who discovered a portal to Lyra's world and became the shaman known as Stanislaus Grumman or Jopari, a variation of his original name. Frances Yates, whose Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition I read after my finals at Oxford, made me realise I’d got everything wrong, and should have studied occult Renaissance philosophy. But it was too late. Slowly, some things are getting better. There are more courses in children’s literature at university level than there used to be, which is a good thing, because there are things to be said about the books that children read (and about their illustration and design) which are interesting and worth saying. Campaigners such as Michael Rosen and Michael Morpurgo were able to use their fame as writers for children to argue for causes that were good and right. And my win turned out not to be a freak, a one-off, because the children’s book winner in 2015, Frances Hardinge’s The Lie Tree, deservedly won the overall prize as well. If you love the varied worlds of His Dark Materials, Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines series is as innovative, with an equally thrilling plot. Moving cities prey on each other in the vivid landscape of Reeve’s dystopian world, and Tom and Hester must fight for survival. Northern Lights p. 31: "Ever since Pope John Calvin had moved the seat of the papacy to Geneva … the Church's power over every aspect of life had been absolute"