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Loading... Once Upon a Time in the North (David Fickling Books)by Philip Pullman
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Much like Lyra’s Oxford, this is a book that is wonderful as a companion novel, but wouldn’t stand well on its own. It is a fun, quick read with some action and drama peppered throughout, but mostly it’s a ‘guilty pleasure’ of sorts for fans of the His Dark Materials trilogy to get more about the world and the characters that Pullman so deftly created. Also, one of the best aspects to this book is the binding and that it comes with a cool little card game that Pullman invented. It’s truly more of a collector’s item that just a book, which makes it cool to own.-Lindsey Miller, www.lindseyslibrary.com (  )LindseysLibrary | May 14, 2009 |   Another ancillary of Pullman's His Dark Materials, Once Upon a Time in the North is a short story featuring some of the character that fans of His Dark Materials know and love. (  )06nwingert | May 12, 2009 | For fans of Philip Pullman and his Dark Material Triology this companion book tells of how Lee Scorsby and Iorek meet. (  )lindamamak | Mar 23, 2009 | I love the Lee Scoresby character so much, this book would have had to suck mightily for me not to embrace it. It doesn't suck. I don't know if it could stand alone without the Dark Materials trilogy behind it, but it is an engaging and quick read for those who are interested in further exploring Lyra's world. (cross-posted from MeriJenBen) ( )59Square | Feb 20, 2009 | This was a longer story than Lyra's Oxford, which I thought was a good thing--although I'm still glad that it's not any more than a short little companion piece. The story is of the first meeting of Lee Scoresby and Iorek Byrnison, though it focuses more on Lee. It's fun to read about Lee when he was young--the aeronaut as a youth was reckless, of course; and he is just as brave and intelligent if less perceptive and scrupulous as when we meet him later in The Golden Compass. It's good to get another story of him, as he was one of my favorite supporting characters in the trilogy. Like Lyra's Oxford, this also came with bits of extras thrown in--the best of which is an actual board game, folded up in a pocket in the book's cover! I will have to play Peril of the Pole at some point, although due to the fragile paper material of the board I can't imagine it will get much play. (I love the rules: "This game is for four to six players and their daemons... Normal game courtesies apply and players may only consult with their daemons.") ( )hayleyscomet | Feb 16, 2009 | 0.052 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0375845100, Hardcover)In this new prequel episode from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials universe, Lee Scoresby--Texan aeronaut and future friend to Lyra Belacqua--is just 24 years old, and he's recently won his hot-air balloon in a poker game. He finds himself floating North to the windswept Arctic island of Novy Odense, where he and his hare daemon Hester are quickly tangled in a deadly plot involving oil magnate Larsen Manganese, corrupt mayoral candidate Ivan Poliakov, and Lee's longtime nemesis from the Dakota Country: Pierre McConville, a hired killer with at least twenty murders to his name.It's only after Lee forms an alliance with one of the island's reviled armored bears that he can fight to break up the conspiracy in a gun-twirling classic western shoot out--and battle of wits. This exquisite clothbound volume features the illustrations of John Lawrence, a removable board game—Peril of the Pole—on the inside back cover, and a glimpse for Pullman fans into the first friendship of two of the most beloved characters in the His Dark Materials trilogy: Lee Scoresby and armored bear Iorek Byrnison. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:19 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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