The Book Of Dust Volume One: La Belle Sauvage

"Compassionate, smart, and suspenseful, La Belle Sauvage is a worthy companion to Philip Pullman’s splendid His Dark Materials saga. In the first of three planned volumes, the baby Lyra is hidden from a would-be kidnapper by Malcolm, an innkeeper’s son, and the kitchen girl, Alice, who set out across flooded Oxford by canoe in a adventure on the river Thames."