Once Upon a Time in the North
Philip Pullman, , illus. by John Lawrence. . Knopf/Fickling, $12.99 (95pp) ISBN 978-0-375-84510-9
Fans of the His Dark Materials trilogy will get a kick from this wisp of a novel, which immediately introduces “a lean young man with a large hat, a laconic disposition, and a thin mustache”: Pullman offers up the backstory about that legendary Texan, the aeronaut Lee Scoresby, his jackrabbit daemon, Hester, and their first encounter with that other series favorite, the armored bear Iorek Byrnison. But this story reads as a stand alone, too, accessible to those unfamiliar with
Reviewed on: 02/18/2008
Genre: Children's
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