Clockwork or All Wound Up

Philip Pullman

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A tormented apprentice clockmaker – and a deadly knight in armour. A mechanical prince – and the sinister Dr Kalmenius, who some say is the devil. These characters merge to create a story that is funny, frightening, exciting and clever.

ISBN: 9780241326312 Category:

Description

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 . . .

Additional information

Weight 0.096 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 0.7 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

94

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J

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