Is the golden compass book and/or film targeted at children, teenagers or adults?
The books [His Dark Materials] were most definitely targeted at children: The Amber Spyglass won the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year award (the first time that such an award has been bestowed on a book from their “children’s literature” category). Northern Lights won the Carnegie Medal for children’s fiction in the UK in 1995. The judges of the CILIP Carnegie Medal for children’s literature selected Northern Lights as one of the ten most important children’s novels of the previous 70 years (in 2007). Northern Lights was voted as the best Carnegie Medal winner in the seventy-year history of the award, the Carnegie of Carnegies (June 2007). The Observer cites Northern Lights as one of the 100 best novels. Philip Pullman attended the British Library in London to receive formal congratulations for his work from culture secretary Tessa Jowell “on behalf of the government” (19 May 2005). Pullman received the Swedish government’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children’s and youth literat
