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 ... Read morefor 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)
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