"The Amber Spyglass The Amber Spyglass is the third novel in the ""His Dark Materials"" trilogy, written by English author Philip Pullman. Published in 2000, it won the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year award, the first children's novel to do so. It was named Children's Book of the Year at the 2001 British Book Awards, and was the first children's book to be longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Mrs. Coulter keeps her daughter Lyra drugged in a remote cave hidden from the Magisterium, a theocratic authority determined to kill Lyra to prevent her from causing a new fall"
"armored polar bears in Philip Pullman's ""His Dark Materials"" trilogy. This trilogy of fantasy novels, coming together to form an epic comprising ""Northern Lights"" (1995, published as ""The Golden Compass"" in North America), ""The Subtle Knife"" (1997), and ""The Amber Spyglass"" (2000). It follows the coming-of-age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes against a backdrop of epic events. The three novels have won various awards, most notably the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year prize, won by ""The Amber Spyglass"". ""Northern Lights"" won the Carnegie Medal for children's fiction"
"Philip Pullman Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English novelist. He is the author of several best-selling books, including the fantasy trilogy ""His Dark Materials"" and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, ""The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ"". In 2008, ""The Times"" named Pullman one of the ""50 greatest British writers since 1945"". In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Pullman was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture. The first book of Pullman's ""His Dark Materials"" trilogy, ""Northern Lights"", won the 1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding"
"Dust"", is based on the 'extreme danger of putting power into the hands of those who believe in some absolute creed, whether that is Christianity or Islam or Marxism'. Philip Pullman Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English novelist. He is the author of several best-selling books, including the fantasy trilogy ""His Dark Materials"" and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, ""The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ"". In 2008, ""The Times"" named Pullman one of the ""50 greatest British writers since 1945"". In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Pullman was named the eleventh most"
"His Dark Materials His Dark Materials is an epic trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of ""Northern Lights"" (1995) (published as ""The Golden Compass"" in North America), ""The Subtle Knife"" (1997), and ""The Amber Spyglass"" (2000). It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes. The novels have won a number of awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1995 for ""Northern Lights"" and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year for ""The Amber Spyglass"". ""His Dark Materials"" has been marketed to young adults, though"
"into fantasy by introducing a variety of alternative worlds and by allowing good and evil to become ambiguous."" In every genre, ""he combines storytelling and psychological insight of the highest order."" He was one of five finalists for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2006 and he was the British nominee again in 2012. In 2008, he started working on ""The Book of Dust"", a companion book to his ""His Dark Materials"" trilogy, and ""The Adventures of John Blake"", a story for the British children's comic ""The DFC"", with artist John Aggs. On 23 November 2007, Pullman was"
"adapts a famous description of Milton by Blake to quip that he (Pullman) ""is of the Devil's party and ""does"" know it"". Critics have compared the trilogy with ""The Chronicles of Narnia"", by C. S. Lewis. Pullman however has characterised the ""Narnia"" series as ""blatantly racist"", ""monumentally disparaging of women"", ""immoral"", and ""evil"". The trilogy has also been compared with such fantasy books as ""Bridge to Terabithia"" by Katherine Paterson and ""A Wrinkle in Time"" by Madeleine L'Engle. ""The Amber Spyglass"" won the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year award, a prestigious British literary award. This is the first time"
"2001), three Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes (1997–1999), two Scottish Arts Council Book Awards (1999 and 2001), the inaugural Whitbread children's book of the year award (1999), the WHSmith book of the year (2006), among others. In 2000, ""Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"" was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, and in 2001, ""Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"" won said award. Honours include a commendation for the Carnegie Medal (1997), a short listing for the Guardian Children's Award (1998), and numerous listings on the notable books, editors' Choices, and best books lists of the American"
"The White Mercedes The White Mercedes, published in 1992 and now known as The Butterfly Tattoo, is about one character who falls passionately in love, and suffers horribly from then on, as his innocent love is embroiled in a long cycle of revenge and hatred. It was Philip Pullman's first book for younger audiences, which won him critical acclaim from many sources. This book is split into three parts: the first deals with Chris' first meeting of Jenny, the second with his search for her, and the third with the tragic ending. The first sentence gives away the doomed nature"
"released in December 2007 () The White Mercedes The White Mercedes, published in 1992 and now known as The Butterfly Tattoo, is about one character who falls passionately in love, and suffers horribly from then on, as his innocent love is embroiled in a long cycle of revenge and hatred. It was Philip Pullman's first book for younger audiences, which won him critical acclaim from many sources. This book is split into three parts: the first deals with Chris' first meeting of Jenny, the second with his search for her, and the third with the tragic ending. The first sentence"
"peace. Described by Antonia Fraser as an ""honest and enterprising attempt to interweave the eternal and immortal longings of youth into the texture of a contemporary story"" Gnosticism. The Haunted Storm The Haunted Storm (1972) is author Philip Pullman's first book. He was only 25 at the time and it was ""published by a publisher who didn't realise it wasn't a very good book"". ""The Haunted Storm"" became joint winner of the New English Library's Young Writer's Award in 1972. Unease and suspicion divide a small village following violence and death. Matthew Cortez is physically involved in the investigation, finding"
"US edition to: Other passages have also been modified in the US edition. Each chapter carried at the beginning a quotation from one of Pullman's favourite authors, including Milton (""Paradise Lost""), William Blake and Emily Dickinson. After the first edition, Pullman had time to produce his customary drawings at the head of each chapter. ""The Amber Spyglass"" won critical acclaim and became the first children's book to win the Whitbread Book of the Year. It also won the British Book Awards, Children's book of the year, American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, ""Parents' Choice"" Good Book Award, ""Horn"
"has a Victorian setting. Pullman taught part-time at Westminster College, Oxford, between 1988 and 1996, continuing to write children's stories. He began ""His Dark Materials"" in about 1993. The first book, ""Northern Lights"", was published in 1995 (entitled ""The Golden Compass"" in the U.S., 1996). Pullman won both the annual Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a similar award that authors may not win twice. Pullman has been writing full-time since 1996. He continues to deliver talks and writes occasionally for ""The Guardian"", including writing and lecturing about education, where he is often critical of unimaginative education policies."
"adaptation of the novel simply entitled ""I Was a Rat"" was aired on the BBC in 2001. The series was produced by Andy Rowley and directed by Laurie Lynd and was adapted by Richard Carpenter, who won a BAFTA award for the work. I Was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers I was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers is a children's novel written by British author Philip Pullman. It was published in 1999. One evening, at the home of the cobbler old Bob and his washerwoman wife Joan, there is a knock at the door. Bob opens the door"
"Compass"". Under that title it has been adapted as a 2007 feature film by Hollywood and as a companion video game. Pullman won the 1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding British children's book. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal, it was named one of the top ten winning works by a panel, composing the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. ""Northern Lights"" won the public vote from that shortlist and was thus named the all-time ""Carnegie of Carnegies"" on 21 June 2007. The novel is set in a world dominated by"
"the Whitbread (Costa) Book Award for First Novel. It was also nominated for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize literary award for comic literature. He was included as one of Waterstones' 'Faces of the Future' and the novel, whose film rights where sold, was listed as one of ""The Observer""'s Four Debuts of the year. In 2003 his second novel, ""Dynamo"", was cited as one of the ten best sports novels of all time by The Observer Sports Magazine. ""The Morning Rides Behind Us"", his third novel, was released in 2005, and short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Fiction. In"
"2005, as well as being shortlisted for the 2004 Carnegie Medal. According to the author's website, the book is being adapted by BAFTA winning writer Danny Brocklehurst and turned into a film by Aardman. The Scarecrow and his Servant The Scarecrow and his Servant is a children's novel by Philip Pullman, first published in 2004. It tells the story of a scarecrow who comes alive after being struck by lightning and sets out on a quest with Jack, an orphan he hires as his servant. As he goes on his quest he tries to reach Spring Valley to claim it"
"Clockwork (novel) Clockwork (also called Clockwork, or All Wound Up) is an illustrated short children's novel by Philip Pullman, first published in the United Kingdom in 1996 by Doubleday. It was first published in the United States by Arthur A. Levine Books in 1998. The Doubleday edition was illustrated by Peter Bailey and the Arthur A. Levine Books edition was illustrated by Leonid Gore. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award and for a Carnegie Medal in 1997. Pullman said his novel was inspired by an old clock he came across in London's Science Museum. Noting the movement"
"1999 Whitbread Book of the Year for children's books., and the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. It was also nominated for the 2000 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the first in the series nominated, but lost to ""A Deepness in the Sky"". ""Prisoner of Azkaban"" additionally won the 2004 Indian Paintbrush Book Award and the 2004 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award. Additionally, it was named an American Library Association Notable Children's Book in 2000 as well as one of their Best Books for Young Adults. As with the previous two books in the series, ""Prisoner of"
"August 2001, and made it onto the ""Sunday Times"" ""Top Ten Bestseller"" list, becoming ""the biggest selling debut novel of that Summer"". In December 2009 it was listed as one of the 100 novels that shaped the decade and was chosen as one of the titles for World Book Night in 2011. In 1997, Billingham became a crime victim, as he and his writing partner Peter Cocks were kidnapped and held hostage in a Manchester hotel room. Turning the event into inspiration for his second Thorne novel, ""Scaredy Cat"", he wrote: The general theme of ""Scaredy Cat"" is really the"
"The Scarecrow and his Servant The Scarecrow and his Servant is a children's novel by Philip Pullman, first published in 2004. It tells the story of a scarecrow who comes alive after being struck by lightning and sets out on a quest with Jack, an orphan he hires as his servant. As he goes on his quest he tries to reach Spring Valley to claim it for his own. He has many troubles along the way such as a bird who ate his brain and being on a deserted island. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Silver Award in"
"the Whitbread First Novel Award and the IMPAC Literary Award. It won the Winifred Holtby Prize for Fiction. In 2003, his next novel ""Personality"", which has close similarities to the life of Lena Zavaroni, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. That same year, O'Hagan won the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2006, his third novel, ""Be Near Me"", was published by Faber and Faber and long-listed for that year's Booker Prize. It went on to win the ""Los Angeles Times""'s 2007 Prize for Fiction. In 2008, he edited a"
"The Pillowman The Pillowman is a 2003 play by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It received its first public reading in an early version at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 1995. It tells the tale of Katurian, a fiction writer living in a police state, who is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of bizarre child murders occurring in his town. The play received the 2004 Olivier Award for Best New Play, the 2004-5 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play, and two Tony Awards for production. It"
"inspired by the real journey made by S. A. Andrée. ""The Balloonist"" was nominated for the National Book Award in 1977. It was reissued in 2011 by the UK publisher Galileo and in 2012 in the United States by The Overlook Press, with a foreword by Philip Pullman and positive reviews from ""The Guardian"", ""The Wall Street Journal"", and ""The Washington Post"". The Overlook Press also published his previously-unpublished novel ""The Carp Castle"" in 2013, and reissued his novel ""Screenplay"" (1982) in 2014, reviewed as ""the mature work of a writer whose ability to juggle multi-layered concepts seems effortless."" The"
"Prize and won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction in 2002. He has also written a book about philosophy, ""Constructions"", and a book of his own philosophy, ""The Human Touch"". His columns for ""The Guardian"" and ""The Observer"" (collected in ""The Day of the Dog"", ""The Book of Fub"" and ""On the Outskirts"") are models of the comic essay; in the 1980s a number of them were adapted and performed for BBC Radio 4 by Martin Jarvis. He has also written screenplays for the films ""Clockwise"", starring John Cleese, ""First and Last"" starring Tom Wilkinson, ""Birthday"", ""Jamie on a Flying Visit"","
"influence him greatly. Pullman married Judith Speller in 1970 and began teaching children aged 9 to 13 at Bishop Kirk Middle School in Summertown, North Oxford and writing school plays. His first published work was ""The Haunted Storm"", which was joint-winner of the New English Library's Young Writer's Award in 1972. He nevertheless refuses to discuss it. ""Galatea"", an adult fantasy-fiction novel, followed in 1978, but it was his school plays which inspired his first children's book, ""Count Karlstein"", in 1982. He stopped teaching shortly after the publication of ""The Ruby in the Smoke"" (1986), his second children's book, which"
"been directed by Carlo Sciaccaluga. The Pillowman The Pillowman is a 2003 play by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It received its first public reading in an early version at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 1995. It tells the tale of Katurian, a fiction writer living in a police state, who is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of bizarre child murders occurring in his town. The play received the 2004 Olivier Award for Best New Play, the 2004-5 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play, and two"
"in his collections of poems for two and four speakers, so-called chamber music for speaking voices. Multiple points of view have been a hallmark of his fiction, beginning with ""Bull Run"" (1993), the first of the many multiple-viewpoint novels to be published for children. This format was further explored in ""Seedfolks"", the 50-voice aural collage ""Seek"", the seven-plays-in-one ""Zap"", and the joined Cinderella variants in ""Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal"". The importance of history, community, art, and imagination have been frequent themes in his work. Fleischman won the 1989 Newbery Medal for """", only two years after his father won it"
"a story.His themes in his novels for older readers include family, love, belonging, body image, rites of passage, sexism, mateship/friendship, winning at all costs, relationships, identity, disability and racial issues. Children's Book Council of Australia Awards Winner Children Peace Literature Prize 1997 : ""A bridge to Wiseman's Cove"" Recommended Book Children Peace Literature Prize 1999 : ""Buzzard Breath and Brains"" Honourable Mention - UNESCO Prize for Children's Literature in the Service of Tolerance and Peace : ""Angela"" (published 2009, 1993) Winner Victorian Premiers Award 2001 Young adult category : ""Touch me"" Winner Children Peace Literature Prize 2001 : ""Touch me"""
"received a kidney transplant in 2011, and in 2014 his novel about the highwayman Dick Turpin, 'The True Adventures of Richard Turpin,' was published. He has also worked as a fellow for the Royal Literary Fund at Leeds and York Universities. Paul Sayer Paul Sayer (born 4 October 1955, South Milford, near Leeds) is an English author. His first novel, ""The Comforts of Madness"" won the 1988 Whitbread Award for both Best First Novel, and Book of the Year. Born in South Milford near Leeds, Sayer has lived in and around York since the age of 18. He was working"
"attached to the original title that it insisted on publishing the first book as ""The Golden Compass"" rather than as ""Northern Lights"", the title used in Britain and Australia. For ""Northern Lights"" Pullman won both the annual Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a similar award that authors may not win twice. Six books have won both awards in 45 years through 2011. In the US, ""The Golden Compass"" was named ""Booklist"" Editors Choice – Top of the List, ""Publishers Weekly"" Book of the Year, a ""Horn Book"" Fanfare Honor Book, and a"
"in ""Locus"" #484, May 2001. Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 is an anthology of science fiction short works edited by Robert Silverberg. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by Harcourt in April 2001. The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story for the year 2000, a profile of 2000 grand master winner Brian W. Aldiss and a representative early story by him, and various other nonfiction pieces related to the awards, together with the Rhysling Award-winning poems for 1999 and an"
"the polar ice, as well as malevolent adults. His most recent book, ""Abigail’s Gift"", tells intertwined stories of a Highland lass at the time of the Clearances, and a modern schoolgirl troubled by bullying and an overactive imagination. In March 2007 he was commissioned by Dynamic Entertainment DEH, a Dutch independent film production company, to adapt Philip Pullman’s 1992 novel The Butterfly Tattoo (previously published as The White Mercedes) as a feature film, released theatrically and on DVD in 2009. Children’s Prose 1999 ""Hunting Gumnor"" Nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2000 Runner-up for the Branford Boase award 2000 Republished in"