![]() They aren’t really talking-animal novels. But The Book of Dust is Lyra’s story before His Dark Materials. At the conclusion of the trilogy Lyra becomes an adolescent, and Pan’s form is fixed as a talking pine marten. Lyra is 11 and 12 years old, not yet an adolescent, and her dæmon can still take any male animal, bird, or insect form, which he does. The main character in His Dark Materials is the young woman Lyra Belacqua and her dæmon Pantalaimon. The American edition has almost none of the interior illustrations by Wormell, which are just chapter-heading drawings that are frankly not worth missing. The two editions are typeset separately, with American and British spellings and terminology as appropriate, and the British edition is over a hundred pages longer. A little over twenty years later, both the American and British editions of The Book of Dust are published simultaneously and with the same title. It was retitled The Golden Compass in the U.S. Its volume 1 is known as Northern Lights in Britain and was published in July 1995. This is Pullman’s long-awaited followup to his multiple award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy. London, Penguin Random House Children’s/David Fickling, October 2017, hardcover, £20.00 (560 pages), Kindle £9.99. ![]() Volume 1, La Belle Sauvage, by Philip Pullman. ![]() Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. ![]()
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