0340997265 
Paperback My name is Mina /
Publication year: 2010
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Genre: Diary fiction. lcsh Children's stories. lcsh
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Hodder Children's,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 0340997265 9780340997260 (pbk): 0340997265 :
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From the winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award the Carnegie Medal and the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award comes the extraordinary prequel to the award-winning Skellig.
'a master novelist' -- Independent 'There really is nobody quite like Almond writing in children's or adults' fiction today.' -- The Times 'a writer of subtle, page-turning and daring exactness.' -- Times Educational Supplement 'Almond manages to make a work of art out of the simplest words.' -- Amanda Craig, The Times 'David Almond is a fine writer, one of the very finest we have. He is simply incapable of writing a bad sentence.' -- Michael Morpurgo 'Another brilliant novel from a master storyteller.' -- Carousel Unsettling but, as ever, beautifully written. -- Daily Mail '... exceptional, delicate writing ... make a moving and thoughtful story told with exceptional elegance.' -- Julia Eccleshare 'exquisite prose which sparkles off the page' -- Writeaway BACKLIST REVIEWS: 'a book of startling quality and tremendous beauty' -- The Bookbag 'David Almond's novels all have a unique, mystical thread running through them. He weaves a story web, spiderlike, that holds the reader
'There's an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. It's been there for an age. I keep on saying that I'll write a journal. So I'll start right here, right now.' This is the prequel to David Almond's debut novel 'Skellig' which was winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award.
Audience: Young readers
Extent: 300 p. ; 20 cm.
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