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How to make a drama out of the Iraq crisis
UK As Philip Pullman, the author of that great celebration of free speech, His Dark Materials, put it: "it's very important not be didactic. The function of Pride and Prejudice is not to teach us not to be proud and prejudiced. ...
Thu, Jun 11 | from Independent
Illustrator Anthony Browne named new Children's Laureate
United Kingdom Philip Pullman, author of the Northern Lights trilogy, never puts himself forward. And last month Anthony Horowitz, whose teen 'superspy' Alex Rider books have sold millions, told Scottish children: "We don't need a spokesperson to be the one person ...
Tue, Jun 9 | from Telegraph.co.uk
Publishers Weekly
NY From Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers: Brisingr by Christopher Paolini; Sally Lockhart series by Philip Pullman; Born to Read by Judy Sierra, illus. by Marc Brown; How to Make a Cherry Pie and See the USA by Marjorie Priceman. ...
Mon, Jun 8 | from Publishers Weekly
Feast for eyes at Ashmolean
The photographer admires Philip Pullman, who he says hesitated for not one second when having a necklace of dead fish hung around his neck. ... and more »
Wed, Jun 3 | from The Oxford Times
Archishop's sermon: you can find God in Eliot, Austen and even Philip Pullman
It is a sunny Welsh afternoon and Dr Rowan Williams , the archbishop of A Canterbury, is strolling down a cow-parsley-frilled lane from the Guardian Hay festival to St Mary's church.
Thu, May 28 | from Guardian Unlimited
Interview: Philip Pullman - Chapter and verse
NOT SO long ago, the author Philip Pullman was taking a stroll past a bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens, the site of deeply affecting pivotal scenes between Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, the young heroes of his bestselling trilogy, His Dark Materials, when something unusual caught his e...
Thu, May 21 | from topix.net
Relaxing, page by page
WA - Geoff Baker Among the titles Morrow has read digitally include George Orwell's “1984;” “The Kite Runner,” by Khaled Hosseini; “Wicked,” by Gregory Maguire; and “The Golden Compass: Books 1 through 3,” by Philip Pullman. Morrow said he can always go out and buy the ...
Sun, May 3 | from The Spokesman Review
His Dark Materials, Parts 1 and 2 at Birmingham Repertory Theatre
UK Since the final instalment was published in 2000 Philip Pullman’s fantasy adventure for young people has been a phenomenon, not only in bookshops but on the stage of the National Theatre, where this adaptation by Nicholas Wright was first staged in ...
Mon, Mar 30 | from The Birmingham Post
Book review: The Magician's Book
United Kingdom that so offends Philip Pullman. (Not for nothing does Lyra, the contrarian heroine of Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, begin her own seditious adventures in a wardrobe in Oxford.) I moved on – not beyond hoping for faith, for numinous meaning, ...
Sun, Feb 1 | from Scotsman
Review: From a fusty ‘Faust’ in ’99 to a lusty one in ’09
MN More than assistants, here they’re really emanations of the Devil’s psyche, much like the Daemons in Philip Pullman’s "His Dark Materials" novels. They do what he’s thinking, and, as such, they’re up to no good. No peasant maiden is safe from them. ...
Wed, Jan 28 | from MinnPost.com
Review Revisited: Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife
First Line: Will tugged at his mother’s hand and said, “Come on, come on…” Posted in 4 stars, Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged: book, book review, his dark materials, philip pullman, review revisited, the subtle knife Re-Read. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (1997) His Dark Materia...
Thu, Jan 1 | from Fyrefly's Book
Noble Collection Alethiometer review.
the alethiometer replica from The Noble Collection may be the closest you'll ever get to owning a real alethiometer unless you're Philip Pullman and can hire a jeweler and watch maker to have one custom made for you. This is a heavy, great looking, and great feeling copy of the prop used in Ne...
Thu, Dec 25 | from YouTube
Philip Pullman on the futility and evil of banning books
Just in time for Banned Books Week, here's Philip "Golden Compass" Pullman on why book bans -- especially religiously inspired book bans -- are so futile and wrong: Because they never learn. The inevitable result of trying to ban something – book, film, play, pop song, whatever – is that fa...
Mon, Sep 29 | from Boing Boing
Using the Oxford Junior Dictionary | Philip Pullman | Review by ...
Before Lyra, before polar bears and His Dark Materials, and before his first children’s book, Count Karlstein, in 1982, Philip Pullman was a lowly drudge in the very humblest halls of lexicography. Pullman in fact spent his earliest ...
Wed, Sep 24 | from Business Online
Pullman wins novel accolade
NORTHERN LIGHTS, the first instalment in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, was last night voted the best children’s book of the past 70 years.
Fri, Jun 22 | from ic Wales
Opinion: Daniel Craig on Philip Pullman and religion
Oh, and check out this quote:[Producer Deborah] Forte, a woman of steely determination, described The Golden Compass as "the first full-scale fantasy film that has stars in it". She discounted Ian McKellen in The Lord of the Rings, as "he is not a big-budget star".What a bizarre thing to sa...
Sat, Apr 21 | from FilmChat
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