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Sep 12, 2026
Luke JonesCORRESPONDENT
And yet the unfortunate thing is we do know that kids increasingly are reading less.
Luke JonesCORRESPONDENT
Dana, are you worried about that phenomenon, and how important are some of these big kind of key books, be it The Gruffalo or Harry Potter or Philip Pullman, to kind of get kids interested in reading?
Dana HathawayGUEST
Oh, yeah, definitely worried about that.
Dana HathawayGUEST
I currently work as a digital product manager at Reading Is Fundamental, which is the leading children's literacy nonprofit here in the United States, and our goal has always been to fight the literacy crisis.
Nikki BediHOST
What about you, Rhianna? Best trilogy? Film or book, it's up to you.
Nikki BediHOST
I mean, I love His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.
Nikki BediHOST
Me too.
Rhianna DhillonGUEST
Yes.
Jordan StephensHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jordan StephensHOST
I've, I've, Philip Pullman is a big hater of C.S. Lewis, and that's one of the things that always-
Miquita OliverHOST
Right.
Miquita OliverHOST
Well, sure he can hate on him, but look what C.S. Lewis created for the world.
Miquita OliverHOST
This shit is beautiful.
Jordan StephensHOST
Yeah, I just, I just went down a different path when I was a kid.
Jordan StephensHOST
I went down Philip Pullman and I read Harry Potter.
Miquita OliverHOST
Okay.
Russell HowardHOST
this is a bit of interesting trivia for you.
Russell HowardHOST
Just thought you should know, The Golden Compass was Philip Pullman's original choice for Northern Lights, quoted from Paradise Lost.
Russell HowardHOST
However, it was rejected before publishing, though I still hate the American title and would also continue to call it Northern Lights.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Good.
JonathanHOST
What was your favorite YA franchise growing up?
Amanda MortlockGUEST
Um, I loved, um, his dark materials by Philip Pullman.
Amanda MortlockGUEST
That's okay.
Amanda MortlockGUEST
And you can probably see it in the book about the animals who were soulmates.
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Amanda MortlockGUEST
start fun or
JonathanHOST
start downer?
Amanda MortlockGUEST
Well, I'll start with I think everyone should read Golden Compass, which is the first in the Philip Pullman series.
JonathanHOST
Yes.
AlexHOST
Hello and welcome to another episode of Two Dusty Boys, where we read chapter by chapter through the His Dark Materials and Book of Dust trilogies by Philip Pullman.
AlexHOST
I'm your host, Alex.
AlexHOST
I'm joined by my co-host, Zach.
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ZachHOST
was a fully fleshed out character for the little amount of time we got to spend with him.
ZachHOST
He was a fully fleshed out character who had wants and needs and... desires and changes and
AlexHOST
i wouldn't be surprised if philip pullman uh when he was originally writing this series like the golden compass specifically if his first three characters that he thought of was lyra uh yorick bernison and lee scoresby
ZachHOST
that
AlexHOST
wouldn't shock me in the least bit yeah because they feel like the most fleshed out three-dimensional characters
Patrick WallHOST
Okay.
Gavin ButtsHOST
Uh, 2009 stop-motion charmer, Caroline, was adapted from a book by which author? A, Roald Dahl, B, Neil Gaiman, C, Philip Pullman, or D, Philip K.
Gavin ButtsHOST
Dick.
Doug ShararGUEST
I'm going with C.
Katherine RundellGUEST
I think one of the things that children need to know is that the world is infinite and various and awaits their courage.
Katherine RundellGUEST
And I think great children's literature, things like Pippi Longstocking and the Moomins, Northern Lights, Philip Pullman, Shana Jackson, Mallory Blackman, these are people who have created worlds that children can enter.
Katherine RundellGUEST
And when they are in them, they can find joy.
Katherine RundellGUEST
variety of ways of being a person who is able to give and receive love but also a variety of ways of being funny tough brave bold the greatest children's stories I think are about endurance about power about death about hope and I think we underestimate them at our peril because we need them both I think in childhood in childhood when they are the building blocks for joy and But also in adulthood, I think if you go back and read children's books in your adulthood, you can find in them some of that spirit of imaginative intensity and some of the process of discovery becomes lit within you again.
Francesca BindiHOST
In fact, in 2023, Dahl's publishers Puffin Books announced that they had revised hundreds of passages in his classic children's books containing language that is considered extremely insensitive and outdated.
Francesca BindiHOST
The revisions were, of course, approved by the Dull estate, and the move was supported by many authors, but it faced a lot of objections around the censorship of books from public figures and authors, including Salman Rushdie, Philip Pullman, and British Prime Minister of the time, Rishi Sunak.
Francesca BindiHOST
Puffin Books would later announce that they would also publish the Roald Dahl Classics Collection, an unedited selection of Dahl's books stating they recognise the importance of keeping Dahl's classic text in print.
Francesca BindiHOST
Do you
Alison MoyetGUEST
I really like the lyric on that one.
Alison MoyetGUEST
I really like the lyric on that one as well, because that was written about Philip Pullman's A Subtle Knife.
Alison MoyetGUEST
And that I found, especially when you're having a time of thinking, well, I'm, you know, I'm not heartbroken.
Alison MoyetGUEST
There's nothing I really want to say.
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