Click on the links for reviews to Northern Lights and The Subtle Knife.

The rest of this review does contain spoilers for the first two entries in His Dark Materials, so don’t read on if you want to avoid them. What is the theme of this book? Merely innocence and experience, the question of God and of consciousness, the question of what it means to be a human being. The scale of this story is so grand, the stakes so high, the questions so profound. His trilogy is not straightforward stylistically, and in fact one has to accept a certain sense of the fable in his writing, that sometimes characters are motivated to do something because that’s what is needed in the story. 26 children's book best seller lists.But now, The Amber Spyglass vies with Northern Lights as my favourite of Pullman’s works.

19 children's book best seller lists.Ĭlick here for the Nov. The new categories will appear in rotation in the Book Review section of the newspaper, but simultaneously on the Web.Ĭlick here for the Nov. The Times on the Web will now publish the New York Times best-seller lists a week in advance of the printed Sunday Book Review.Īlso, the Children's Book Best-Sellers List has been expanded into three distinct categories - Picture, Chapter and Paperback. Slide Show: A Gallery of the Best Illustrated Books of 2000 (10 illustrations) Written and illustrated by DOUGLAS FLORIAN In the Hollow of Your Hand: Slave LullabiesĪdapted and illustrated by BARBARA McCLINTOCK Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truthīound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves Written and illustrated by DAVID MACAULAY The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold The Lion and the Mouse: And Other Aesop's Fables Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale FunniesĮdited by ART SPIEGELMAN and FRANÇOISE MOULY

Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American Family Written and illustrated by DENISE FLEMING Photographs by STEVE ROSENTHAL AND KIT ROSENTHALīy JULIE ANDREWS EDWARDS and EMMA WALTON HAMILTON Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa Written and illustrated by CHRISTOPHER MYERS

Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella Story The Gift of the Crocodile: A Cinderella Storyĭomítíla: A Cinderella Tale From the Mexican Tradition The New York Times Book Review: Children's Booksįirst Chapter: 'Joey Pigza Loses Control'Ĭinderella the Dog and Her Little Glass Slipper

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