![]() Lila is in the Grotto watching the flames rise around her. This is one of my favourite parts of the story. Finally she comes face-to-face with the Fire-Fiend, Razvani. Razvani lives in the smouldering centre of Mount Merapi and the journey to get there is a long and gruelling one for Lila. Lila may have done her apprenticeship, but in order to become a proper firework maker she has to travel to the Grotto of Razvani, the Fire-Fiend, to bring back some Royal Sulphur. The stories that I like the best are those of personal challenges and I reckon the writer of this book, Philip Pullman, would agree, because Lila goes on a very dangerous adventure. That those explosions in the sky are actually the dreams and ideas of people like Lila, bursting into life. Honestly, before I started reading this story, I'd never thought about who actually makes a firework. But luckily for Lila, she's got an expert teacher, her dad, and he shows her how to make some eye-popping fireworks, like Leaping Monkeys and Golden Sneezes. You know, fireworks can be dangerous and you have to be very careful around them. Now Lila has always dreamed of being a firework-maker. ![]() ![]() It's called The Firework Maker's Daughter and it's all about a girl called Lila. ![]()
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