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JULES VERNE MEETS `LORD OF THE RINGS'
From: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Date: 19960519
Author:John Zeaman
John Zeaman
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
05-19-1996
JULES VERNE MEETS `LORD OF THE RINGS'
By John Zeaman
Date: 05-19-1996, Sunday
Section: BOOKS & MUSIC
Edition: All Editions -- Sunday
Column: CHILDREN'S BOOK
THE GOLDEN COMPASS
by Philip Pullman; Alfred A. Knopf, 416 pp., $20
Fantasy is the soul of children's literature. Without it, stories
for the young are simply weak versions of adult fare.
Over the past century, the best children's fantasy has come from
England, a tradition that continues with Philip Pullman's "The Golden
Compass," the first of a trilogy that is being compared to "The ...
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