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Skellig
David Almond
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Description for Skellig
Paperback. Michael's world after his family moves house seems lonely and frightening, when his new baby sister is fighting for her life in hospital. Then he discovers something - a creature in the crumbling garage, and nothing is ever the same. Winner of the Carnegie Medal, Whitbread Award and Hans Christian Andersen Award 2010. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 5AK; YFB. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain. Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical. A strange creature - part owl, part angel, a being who needs Michael's help if he is to survive. With his new friend Mina, Michael nourishes Skellig back to health, while his baby sister languishes in the hospital. But Skellig is far more than he at first appears, and as he helps Michael breathe life into his tiny sister, Michael's world changes forever . . . Skellig won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award and is now a major Sky1 feature film, starring Tim Roth and John Simm. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award.
Product Details
Publisher
Hachette Children´s Group
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340997048
SKU
V9780340997048
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-99
About David Almond
David Almond is the author of Skellig, My Name is Mina, Counting Stars, The Savage, Island, A Song for Ella Grey, The Colour of the Sun and many other novels, stories, picture books, opera librettos, songs and plays. His work is translated into 40 languages, and is widely adapted for stage and screen. His major awards include the Carnegie Medal, two Whitbread Awards, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, the Michael L Printz Award (USA), Le Prix Sorcieres (France) and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. In 2010 he won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world's most prestigious prize for children's authors. David speaks at festivals and conferences around the world. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. He is widely regarded as one of the most exciting, inspirational and innovative children's authors writing today. He has one amazing daughter. He lives in Bath and in Newcastle, the city in which he was born. www.davidalmond.com
Reviews for Skellig
A beautifully told modern fairytale.
Observer
'A bookshelf essential.'
The Guardian
'A deep and lovely book'
The Times
'His characters are proper, complex portraits of children that don't succumb to the gender cliches prevalent in children's fiction.'
The Irish Times
'it's a wonderfully original and beautifully written story and, oddest of all for a children's book, it manages to address the unlikely theme of spirituality with beguiling delicacy.'
The Irish Times
'Tremendously innovative, highly original and very moving.'
Melvin Burgess
'Truly original, mysterious and affecting . . . Almond treads with delicate certainty, and the result is something genuine and true'
Philip Pullman, The Guardian
the most lyrical children's author now writing
The Guardian
A stunning debut . . . An extraordinary book.
The Sunday Telegraph
Touched with a visionary intensity, this strange, hugely readable and life-affirming tale exercises every muscle of the imagination.
The Guardian
. . . gripping, beautiful and brilliantly written . . . Everyone is raving about this unforgettable book.
The Sunday Times
One of those books that you can't put down
Junior Reviewer Conor Neison, aged 12
Evening Echo (Cork)
A modern classic Listed as on the of the 100 Best Children's Books Ever (Novels)
The Daily Telegraph
A beautiful story which will enchant young and old alike
Western Morning News
Powerful and moving
Guardian.co.uk
Deservedly popular
The Observer
A bookshelf essential.
The Guardian
I can't eat a chinese takeaway without thinking about this strange and beautiful book about an angel who seems to have lost his way.
Gill Harvey
The Big Issue
Voted Carnegie Medal's Number one Top Book of the past 70 years
The Times
A visionary story...a lyrical, magical kind of book which can be read on many different levels
The Daily Mail
Humorous, heart-stopping and haunting...an emotional roller-coaster of a read with a cliff-hanger of a conclusion. Inspired and inspiring.
Newcastle Journal
Touched with a visionary intensity, this strange, hugely readable and life-affirming tale exercises every muscle of the imagination
The Guardian
A story full of heart and magic and big confusing emotions, elegantly told by a master craftsman. A perfect piece of art
Lucy Christopher
Big Issue (london)
Brings Magical Realism to working-class Northeast England
i (The Independent)
An exquisite book
The Sunday Telegraph
Refusing to read this book on the grounds that you are not a child makes as much sense as refusing to read crime fiction because you are not a criminal. A deep and lovely book.
Nick Hornby
The Times
Hard to put down
Liz Lightfoot
The Daily Telegraph
The sort of children's book that makes adults find excuses to read more of them
Times Educational Supplement
An exquisitely crafted book with a mystical core
The Daily Telegraph
This modern classic has been reissued in a beautiful 15th anniversary edition
Lorna Bradbury
The Sunday Telegraph
The book I wish I'd written is Skellig by David Almond. Almond's book has a great sense of the mysterious; we are left with a sense of wonder. I wish that I had written it!
Joseph Delaney
Books For Keeps
Lyrical, innovative and moving...unforgettably moving
Cressida Cowell
Sunday Express
Lyrical, innovative and unforgettably moving.
Sunday Express (Cressida Cowell)
Observer
'A bookshelf essential.'
The Guardian
'A deep and lovely book'
The Times
'His characters are proper, complex portraits of children that don't succumb to the gender cliches prevalent in children's fiction.'
The Irish Times
'it's a wonderfully original and beautifully written story and, oddest of all for a children's book, it manages to address the unlikely theme of spirituality with beguiling delicacy.'
The Irish Times
'Tremendously innovative, highly original and very moving.'
Melvin Burgess
'Truly original, mysterious and affecting . . . Almond treads with delicate certainty, and the result is something genuine and true'
Philip Pullman, The Guardian
the most lyrical children's author now writing
The Guardian
A stunning debut . . . An extraordinary book.
The Sunday Telegraph
Touched with a visionary intensity, this strange, hugely readable and life-affirming tale exercises every muscle of the imagination.
The Guardian
. . . gripping, beautiful and brilliantly written . . . Everyone is raving about this unforgettable book.
The Sunday Times
One of those books that you can't put down
Junior Reviewer Conor Neison, aged 12
Evening Echo (Cork)
A modern classic Listed as on the of the 100 Best Children's Books Ever (Novels)
The Daily Telegraph
A beautiful story which will enchant young and old alike
Western Morning News
Powerful and moving
Guardian.co.uk
Deservedly popular
The Observer
A bookshelf essential.
The Guardian
I can't eat a chinese takeaway without thinking about this strange and beautiful book about an angel who seems to have lost his way.
Gill Harvey
The Big Issue
Voted Carnegie Medal's Number one Top Book of the past 70 years
The Times
A visionary story...a lyrical, magical kind of book which can be read on many different levels
The Daily Mail
Humorous, heart-stopping and haunting...an emotional roller-coaster of a read with a cliff-hanger of a conclusion. Inspired and inspiring.
Newcastle Journal
Touched with a visionary intensity, this strange, hugely readable and life-affirming tale exercises every muscle of the imagination
The Guardian
A story full of heart and magic and big confusing emotions, elegantly told by a master craftsman. A perfect piece of art
Lucy Christopher
Big Issue (london)
Brings Magical Realism to working-class Northeast England
i (The Independent)
An exquisite book
The Sunday Telegraph
Refusing to read this book on the grounds that you are not a child makes as much sense as refusing to read crime fiction because you are not a criminal. A deep and lovely book.
Nick Hornby
The Times
Hard to put down
Liz Lightfoot
The Daily Telegraph
The sort of children's book that makes adults find excuses to read more of them
Times Educational Supplement
An exquisitely crafted book with a mystical core
The Daily Telegraph
This modern classic has been reissued in a beautiful 15th anniversary edition
Lorna Bradbury
The Sunday Telegraph
The book I wish I'd written is Skellig by David Almond. Almond's book has a great sense of the mysterious; we are left with a sense of wonder. I wish that I had written it!
Joseph Delaney
Books For Keeps
Lyrical, innovative and moving...unforgettably moving
Cressida Cowell
Sunday Express
Lyrical, innovative and unforgettably moving.
Sunday Express (Cressida Cowell)