The daemon is the physical manifestation of the human soul in the form of an animal, as described by Philip Pullman’s in His Dark Materials trilogy. Here illustrators including Chris Riddell, Sarah McIntyre, Nadia Shireen, Debi Gliori, Brita Granström and Mick Manning show us their daemons – and now we want to see yours!

Northern Lights is Durham’s Big Read in the Durham Book Festival and Philip is making a guest appearance this Saturday! We’d love to see your daemons too please tweet @GdnChildrenBks using #mydaemon