In this enchanting retelling of Grimms' fairy tales, Philip Pullman conjures up a world of wicked deeds, gruesome deaths, magical transformations and otherworldly romance.
Philip Pullman was born in Norwich and educated in England,
Zimbabwe, Australia and Wales. He studied English at Exeter
College, Oxford.
His first children's book, Count Karlstein, was published in 1982.
To date, he has published thirty-three books, read by children and
adults alike. His most famous work is the His Dark Materials
trilogy. These books have been honoured by several prizes including
the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Book Prize, and (for
The Amber Spyglass) the Whitbread Book of the Year Award - the
first time that prize had been given to a children's book. Pullman
has received numerous other awards, including the Eleanor Farjeon
Award and the Astrid Lindgren Award. He was knighted in the 2019
New Year's Honours List for Services to Literature.
Never putting a foot wrong, the result is a magical
complexity-in-simplicity that is sure to become a classic in its
own right
*Sunday Times*
Philip Pullman has radically reworked the Grimm tales for all
ages
*Telegraph*
One of Pullman's most useful additions is the vastly improved poems
and jingles...his freer versions are catchy and authentic
*Guardian*
I've admired Philip Pullman since his early fantasy Galatea on
through the splendid trilogy His Dark Materials. All of his gifts,
including his prose eloquence, and his endless high Romantic
imagination, are manifested in this marvelous retelling of
Grimm
*Harold Bloom*
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