Once Upon a Time in the North is the story of a meeting between balloonist Lee Scoresby and bear Iorek Byrnison, the future king of the armored bears. This meeting took place twenty years before Lyra's birth. "Lyra's Oxford" is the story that happened to Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon while she was studying at Jordan College - two years after the events described in The Amber Telescope, the last volume of the trilogy .The story told in the His Dark Materials trilogy is over, but the author gave readers the opportunity to return to the wonderful world he created, full of wonders and adventures, and meet their favorite characters again - on the roofs of Oxford, in the laboratory of a mysterious alchemist, in the basket of a balloon flying over the icy ocean waves...