Clockwork

By Author / Illustrator

Philip Pullman

Genre

Adventure

Publisher

Penguin Random House Children's UK

ISBN

9780440866381

Format

Paperback / softback

Published

04-11-2004

Synopsis

Tick, tock, tick, tock! Some stories are like that. Once you've wend them up, nothing will stop them ...

A tormented apprentice clock-maker, a deadly mechanical knight in armour - and the sinister Dr Kalmenius, who some say is the devil ... Wind up these characters, fit them into a story on a cold winter's evening, with the snow swirling down, and suddenly life and the story begin to merge in a peculiarly macabre - and unstoppable - way.

Almost like clockwork ...

Reviews

I like the part when the queen eventually finds out her son is made of clockwork and she goes mental. It is very scary at some points, like when the bartender Gretel was nearly killed.