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Adapted by Stéphane Melchior.
Translated by Annie Eaton.
Illustrated by
Clément Oubrerie.
Coloring by Clément Oubrerie with Philippe Bruno. In the middle volume of the three-part graphic adaptation (first published in France), Lyra and friends, now including armored bear Iorek Byrnison and aeronaut Lee Scoresby, are attacked. Lyra is kidnapped and delivered to a laboratory, where she finds lost friend Roger and learns the terrible truth about "intercision." Dynamic panels and sketchy pen-and-ink illustrations with washes of vivid color keep the energy high.
Reviewer: Katie Bircher
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 1996