Oliver Twist
Oliver Asking for More by George Cruikshank—Alamy/Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library/ Illustration by George Cruikshank.
Fagin in the Condemned Cell by George Cruikshank—Alamy/ART Collection/ Illustration by George Cruikshank.
Sikes Attempting to Destroy His Dog by George Cruikshank—Alamy/Bookworm Classics / Illustration by George Cruikshank.
Maus
Excerpt from Maus: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman in The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman (Penguin Books, 2003). Copyright © Art Spiegelman, 1973, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991. All rights reserved.
Excerpts from The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman (Penguin Books, 2003). Copyright © Art Spiegelman, 1973, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991. All rights reserved.
Homer: lines from The Illiad translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin, 1999), translation copyright © Robert Fagles 1990, used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Talents and Virtues
Photograph of Sophia Goddard’s tomb © David White Photography/www.davidwhitephotography.co.uk.
Azar Nafisi: extracts from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Penguin, 2015), copyright © Azar Nafisi 2003, used by permission of I. B. Tauris and Company Ltd. via PLSclear.
Jonathan Rose: extract from The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (Yale University Press, 2001), copyright © Jonathan Rose 2001, used by permission of Yale Representation Ltd.
God and Dust
William Mayne: extract from Midnight Fair (Hodder Children’s Books, 1997), copyright © William Mayne 1997, used by permission of David Higham Associates.
The Republic of Heaven
Edward Ardizzone: extract from Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (Frances Lincoln, 2006), first published by Oxford University Press in 1936, used by permission of Frances Lincoln Ltd., an imprint of the Quarto Group.
Erich Kästner: extract from Emil and the Three Twins translated by Cyrus Brooks (Vintage Classics, 2012), copyright © Erich Kästner 1935, translation copyright © Cyrus Brooks 1935, used by permission of A M Heath & Co Ltd.
Jan Mark: extract from “Who’s a Pretty Boy Then?,” copyright © Jan Mark 1981, from Black and White (Viking, 1991), used by permission of David Higham Associates.
B.B. (Denys Watkins-Pitchford): extract from Brendon Chase (Jane Nissen Books/Penguin, 2000), copyright © Denys Watkins-Pitchford 1944, used by permission of David Higham Associates.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR & EDITOR
PHILIP PULLMAN is one of the most acclaimed writers working today. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass/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 The Golden Compass (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.
Philip Pullman lives in Oxford, England. To learn more, please visit www.philip-pullman.com or follow him on Twitter at @PhilipPullman.
SIMON MASON writes books for both children and adults. His first adult novel won the Betty Trask First Novel award, while Moon Pie, a novel for young adults, was shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction prize. Running Girl, his first Garvie Smith mystery novel, was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book award. Kid Got Shot, the second, won CrimeFest’s Best YA Crime Novel in 2017. Simon lives in Oxford, England.
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet (see this page)
“And When Did You Last See Your Father?” by William Frederick Yeames (see this page)
Belshazzar’s Feast by Rembrandt (see also this page)
The Baptism of Christ by Piero della Francesca (see also this page)
The Convalescent by Gwen John (see also this page)
Cover of The Pleasure Garden, illustration by Fritz Wegner (see also this page)
Lyra by Peter Bailey for the Folio Society (see also this page)
Lyra making sense of the alethiometer by Peter Bailey for the Folio Society (see also this page)
“Rupert Bows to the King” from Rupert by Alfred Bestall (see also this page)
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