YOU DON'T INSTANTLY KNOW PHILIP PULLMAN?? He only wrote His Dark Materials (the book I got to give out, Northern Lights, is part 1 in the trilogy) or known to Americans as The Golden Compass as well as the Sally Lockhart mysteries.

Not in Australia? I am pretty sure you have World Book Day as well, just on another date don't you? We have both an adult book week and children's book week in the Netherlands, there's something different everywhere :)