The Firework-Maker's Daughter (Scholastic Signature) - Softcover

Pullman, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0439224209 ISBN 13: 9780439224208

Publisher: Blue Sky Press (AZ), 2001

Synopsis

Lila, the daughter of the Firework-Maker, was to follow in her father's footsteps, but she soon learns that to be a true Firework-Maker, she must face down the Fire-Fiend of Mount Merapi. So Lila sets off, ready to face anything that gets in her way. An ALA Booklist Editors' Choice. Illustrations.

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Review:

Lila wants to be a firework maker just like her father, but before she can even start she has to make a hazardous, life-threatening journey to the den of the evil Fire-Fiend, battling her way through strange lands and nightmarish scenarios with elephants and pirates and strange beasts a-plenty tempting her from her path.

Philip Pullman has plucked a rare, exotic and totally bewitching idea from thin air and has turned it into the kind of magical adventure that all children dream of, crackling and sparkling with the same thrilling intensity as the fireworks in Lila's dreams. Lila herself is divine--the perfect blend of light-footed heroine and stubborn adventurer--and The Firework- Maker's Daughter, illustrated by Nick Harris, is a deserving winner of the Smarties Book Prize. A simply superb, gripping, action-packed adventure that will live long in the memory of anyone who enters Lila's world. --Susan Harrison

Review:

"Pullman builds anticipation to a breathtaking conclusion. A fantastical journey fraught with danger and a dream realized".

-- Kirkus Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: Blue Sky Press (AZ)
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0439224209
• ISBN 13: 9780439224208
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 97
• Illustrator: Gallaghar S Saelig