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One night, lightning strikes a field and brings a scarecrow to life. Kind-hearted but pompous and ambitious, he decides to see the world. So he hires a little boy to be his servant. Each chapter of this book marks another episode on their journey. The scarecrow can be scatterbrained and silly, and his decisions sometimes lead them into danger. But aided by his loyal servant’s common sense, will he work out what he’s looking for – and find it in the end?
- A wise and witty short masterpiece by a celebrated writer
- Themes of self-discovery, friendship and learning to love
- Philip Pullman is the best-loved author of Northern Lights
- He has won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Prize
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Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman is probably the world’s most acclaimed living children’s author, best known for the trilogy of books known as His Dark Materials.
Awards
Philip won the Nestle Smarties award for both Clockwork and The Firework Maker’s Daughter. Northern Lights was published in hardback in July 1995. That year, it won the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and was Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards.
The Amber Spyglass won WHSmith Children’s Book of the Year 2000 at the British Book Awards, was Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal and was longlisted for The Booker Prize 2001. Philip Pullman was voted Whitaker Author of the Year by the Booksellers Association. The Amber Spyglass went on to win both Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year and Whitbread Book of the Year 2001 and in doing so became the first children’s book to win the main prize in the award’s history.
Philip has also been recognised with two major awards for his contribution to literature: the Eleanor Farjeon award in 2002, and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize in 2005.