The Scarecrow and his Servant

The Scarecrow and his Servant
First edition cover
Author	Philip Pullman
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Children's, Fantasy
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	4 November 2004
Pages	230
ISBN	978-0-385-40980-3
OCLC	57692822

The Scarecrow and his Servant is a children's novel by Philip Pullman, first published in 2004. It tells the story of a scarecrow who comes alive after being struck by lightning and sets out on a quest with Jack, an orphan he hires as his servant. As he goes on his quest he tries to reach Spring Valley to claim it for his own.

It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Silver Award in 2005,^[1] as well as being shortlisted for the 2004 Carnegie Medal.^[2] According to the author's website, the book is being adapted by BAFTA winning writer Danny Brocklehurst and turned into a film by Aardman.^[3]

References

↑ Nestlé Children's Book Prize
↑ The CILIP Carnegie Medal & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards
↑ "May message". Philip-Pullman.com. May 2006. Retrieved 2007-12-18.

Novels by Philip Pullman

His Dark Materials	Northern Lights (1995) The Subtle Knife (1997) The Amber Spyglass (2000) Lyra's Oxford (2003) Once Upon a Time in the North (2008) The Book of Dust (TBA)

Sally Lockhart	The Ruby in the Smoke (1985) The Shadow in the North (1986) The Tiger in the Well (1990) The Tin Princess (1994)

The New-Cut Gang	Thunderbolt's Waxwork (1994) The Gasfitter's Ball (1995)

Other	The Haunted Storm (1972) Galatea (1976) Count Karlstein (1982) How to be Cool (1987) Spring-Heeled Jack (1989) The Broken Bridge (1990) The White Mercedes (1992) The Wonderful Story of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp (1993) Clockwork, or, All Wound Up (1995) The Firework-Maker's Daughter (1995) Mossycoat (1998) The Butterfly Tattoo (1998) I Was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers (1999) Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline (2000) The Scarecrow and his Servant (2004) The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2010)

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