Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy is too
my mind a great contemporary HeroQuest (lords above
they cross to the other side, enter the lands of the
dead, witness the death of god) and a fine novel too
boot. If you have not read it then I would rectify
that omission as soon as you can (and to my mind its
themes are far too complex for it to be labeled a
children's book).
However it is probably 21st century so excluded from
competition with the afore mentioned ;-)
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