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Skellig

Skellig 1

by David Almond
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 14/11/2013
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The bestselling story about love, loss and hope that launched David Almond as one of the best children's writers of today. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread children's book of the Year Award.


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 for ever . . .


Skellig won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award.


Powerful and moving - The Guardian


This newly jacketed edition celebrates 20 years of this multi-award-winning novel.

ISBN:
9781444920956
9781444920956
Category:
Personal & social issues: siblings (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
14-11-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hachette Children's Group
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.

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When Michael moves houses his little sister suddenly becomes ill and his whole world is turned upside down. Let yourself be plunged into the mysterious and wondrous fiction of David almond, were your always wondering what’s coming next. I believe that a person’s perspective toward the book really changes from the beginning of the book to the end. When we first meet “skellig” he seems frightening and scary but as we learn more about the unique creature we begin to really appreciate him. It feels like there are two parts to this book, the fictional life of “skellig” and Michael’s crumbling social life. Overall this book gets an 11/10 for originality and is the kind of book that once you…feel more comfortable with skellig you can’t put down. Extremely different, but well worth the read.

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