by Philip Pullman · BOLSILLO BYBLOS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466602259
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«Lila y el secreto de los fuegos» is the fantasy and adventure novel by Philip Pullman, published by Bolsillo Byblos in paperback (128 pages, in Spanish).
Lila, daughter of the firework-maker Lalchand, knows almost all the secrets of the trade except the most important one, which her father keeps. When her friend Chulak discovers that the key lies in a real sulphur from a cave on Mount Merapi, Lila sets out to find it. To pass the test, she must obtain water from Emerald Lake and face the Fire Devil.
Translation by Enrique Murillo Fort and illustrations by Jesús Gabán Bravo. Original work in English: The Firework-Maker's Daughter. Winner of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 1996.
Recommended for readers aged 10 to 14 who enjoy fantasy and adventure.
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, of which the final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.
