Every Child's Beginning

The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman's first book in his series, The Dark Materials, begins with an adventure of a curious little girl named Lyra Belacqua.

Lyra has always been the fun-loving and adventurous girl that everyone at Jordan College loved. She is a curious and innocent little girl who just likes to have battles for territory with her fellow children at Oxford... That is, until she decides to snoop around the mysterious, forbidden room with her daemon, Pantalaimon.

And so begins Lyra's dangerous and long journey that will involve twists of unexpected events and imaginative world of fantasy...