By Philip Pullman (author) , Peter Bailey (illustrator)
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Tick, tick, tick, tock. Once you've wound some things up nothing can stop them.
It is a cold winter's night when Karl enters the White Horse Tavern looking like he's swallowed a thundercloud. His final task as a clockmaker apprentice is to make a new figure for the great clock of Glockenheim. He has not made the figure - or got any idea of what it could be, and the unveiling is tomorrow.
Fritz is also in the tavern; there to read aloud his new spooky story. Like Karl, he hasn't finished. Well, he knows how the story starts and he knows it's called Clockwork - so, with the snow swirling down outside, he sets his story going and just has to hope that the ending will come to him as he tells it. Suddenly, Fritz's story and real life merge in a completely sinister way - and just like clockwork it can't be stopped.
A thrilling masterwork on stories that become real -- Amanda Craig - The Times
It has the feel of a classic fairy tale. It's the most elegantly constructed, chilling story - Jacqueline Wilson
Exciting, scary, romantic and deliciously readable - Guardian
Philip Pullman one of the most acclaimed writers working today.
He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass), which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by Newsweek. He has also won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal for Northern Lights (and the reader-voted ‘Carnegie of Carnegies’ for the best children’s book of the past seventy years); the Whitbread (now Costa) Award for The Amber Spyglass; and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in honour of his body of work. The first volume of Philip Pullman’s long-awaited trilogy The Book of Dust, set in the same world as His Dark Materials, published in 2017, and the second volume followed in 2019.
Author photo © Michael Leckie portrait.
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The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Clockwork or All Wound Up and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
Clockwork or All Wound Up features in the following genres: Fantasy / Magical, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for 11+ readers, Recommendations, Featured Books for 9+ readers
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Clockwork or All Wound Up was written by Philip Pullman and published by Puffin an imprint of Penguin Random House Children's UK
Clockwork or All Wound Up has 94 pages
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