Clockwork

by Philip Pullman, Leonid Gore (Illustrator)

Fritz, the writer, spins a spine-tingling tale to cheer up Karl, the apprentice clockmaker. But rather than helping matters, the story begins to come true....

The stories of Karl, the apprentice; Dr. Kalmenius, his nefarious “savior”; Gretl, the brave daughter of the town innkeeper; and a young prince whose clockwork heart is in danger of winding down come together in surprising and magical ways in a story that has the relentless urgency of a ticking clock.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult, Horror, Childrens, Steampunk, Middle Grade

144 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2006

About the author

Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. His books include the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, a fictionalised biography of Jesus. In 2008, The Times named Pullman one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945". In a 2004 BBC poll, he was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature.
Northern Lights, the first volume in His Dark Materials, won the 1995 Carnegie Medal of the Library Association as the year's outstanding English-language children's book. For the Carnegie's 70th anniversary, it was named in the top ten by a panel tasked with compiling a shortlist for a public vote for an all-time favourite. It won that public vote and was named all-time "Carnegie of Carnegies" in June 2007. It was filmed under the book's US title, The Golden Compass. In 2003, His Dark Materials trilogy ranked third in the BBC's The Big Read, a poll of 200 top novels voted by the British public.

Reviews

[Simonka]

kinda scary, ale líbilo se mi jak kniha měla dva příběhy, které se pak propojily

[Lenka]

Krásný příběh, který je skutečně "na jedno natažení" - málo stránek, velká písmenka; do letadla ideální :)

[Walter Slovo]

Přečteno na jeden zátah. Bravurně napsáno, má šanci oslovit i dospělého. Škoda, že mě tak neohromila i dvě pokračování Zlatého kompasu.

[Veronika Steff]

Po dvou měsících od přečtení už z knížky nevím vůbec nic, ale tehdy jsem ji zhltla za jediný večer. https://milyctenarskydenicku.blogspot...