![]() ![]() But they'll be back next week as we go down to the woods for a bit of a bear hunt. Download this stock image: 1990s UK The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman Book Cover - EXRPE0 from Alamys library of millions of high resolution stock photos. That's it for now from the children's reading session. Let's have a look in the book (flicks through pages), yes she does get killed. There's something you've missed – what's that?Ĭ. That little girl is rolling a hula hoop and she's late for something. She lives in one of the houses at the very end, so she has to run very quickly because it's night time and she's supposed to be in bed. I was intrigued to see what sort of story it would tell the children.Ĭ There is a little girl running down the street. ![]() My favourite was The Subtle Knife, which used 'The Melancholy and Mystery of a Street' by Italian Surrealist painter by Giorgio de Chirico. This was partly because the kid's copies had dreadfully boring fantasy style artwork, but mainly because the publisher picked some fantastically evocative images that caught the mood and subject of the books perfectly. But I had to make an exception for this print run of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Now I've had a little dig at 'adult crossover' children's fiction before, and the sort of people who buy the editions with the 'grown up', i.e. ![]()
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