The Firework-Maker's Daughter (Signed 1st Edition)

Philip Pullman

ISBN 10: 0385405278 / ISBN 13: 9780385405270

Published by Doubleday, 1995

About this Item

Pictoral boards. Clean pages. Firm square binding. Signed and inscribed by the author to the half title page. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Firework-Maker's Daughter (Signed 1st Edition)
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385405278
• ISBN 13: 9780385405270
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Nick Harris
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

What Lila wants to be more than anything else is a firework-maker. But every firework-maker must make a perilous journey to face the terrifying Fire-Fiend. Not knowing that she needs special protection to survive the Fire-Fiend's flames, she sets off alone. Can her friends reach her in time?

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