![]() ![]() ![]() It tells the growing-up story of Lyra and Will, Pullman’s wild and enterprising child characters. In some ways, the trilogy is part of the coming-of-age tradition of literature for young teens (and inevitably, somewhat younger kids, too). Pullman’s work is a hybrid: It’s sold to adults as complex fantasy, and to the 12-year-old crowd as Harry Potter-plus. It’s that I loved the books so much that I don’t want any actors or special effects, no matter how well-cast and well-rendered, interfering with my own imaginings.īut the depth of my Pullman devotion doesn’t make me want to give his books to my two boys, who are near his intended audience. ![]() I’m pretty sure that I’m not going to go see the new movie based on The Golden Compass, the first novel in Philip Pullman’s transcendent trilogy, His Dark Materials. ![]()
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