Northern Lights: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1 by Philip Pullman, Stephane Melchior and Clement Oubrerie – review

‘I found the illustrations easy, simple and concise with words that worked with them’

This graphic novel, as you may have guessed, is based on Northern Lights. For me this was great as I bought Northern Lights a while back and found it much to complicated to read. This graphic novel sets out, easily, the story of Lyra Belacqua and her little daemon.

I found the illustrations easy, simple and concise with words that worked with them. As you can see this is only part 1 of Northern Lights so there is more to come. I think this plot is basically the same as the first third of the novel: Lyra Belacqua is a child in a school (Jordan College) far to old for her where she runs free with her daemon. When her uncle arrives, everything changes.

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