About the Golden Compass Graphic Novel Volume 1

(W) Philip Pullman & Various (A/CA) Clement Oubrerie. The world of Philip Pullmans internationally bestselling His Dark Materials saga is brought to visual life in a three-volume graphic adaptation of The Golden Compass. Lyra Belacqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jordan College, with her dmon familiar always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, and a mysterious substance known as Dust. As she hurtles toward danger in the cold far North, Lyra never suspects the shocking truth: she alone is destined to win or to lose this more-than-mortal battle.