When I was a child, I found the Narnia books very comforting, probably because of the idea of escaping into a world where good things were possible and happy endings could happen appealed to me. There are no happy endings in Pullman, and the deaths and separations seem even more horrific to me than the ones that take place in the Narnia books. I'm glad that I'm not a child growing up with the Pullman books, to be honest.