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Almond, D : Skellig

Hodder Children's Books, London, 1999

ISBN 034076483X

Octavo. 170 pp. Small stains on the front board. Lamination of the dust-jacket slightly rubbed. Originally published as a soft-cover in 1998. David Almond (born 15 May 1951) is a British children's writer who has penned several novels, each one to critical acclaim. He was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia. His first children's novel, Skellig (1998), set in Newcastle, won the Whitbread Children's Novel of the Year Award and also the Carnegie Medal. It has been adapted into a stage play, film and opera. His works are highly philosophical and thus appeal to children and adults alike. Recurring themes throughout include the complex relationships between apparent opposites (such as life and death, reality and fiction, past and future); forms of education; growing up and adapting to change; the nature of 'the self'. He has been greatly influenced by the works of the English Romantic poet William Blake. - sourced from Wikipedia.. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Blue Boards. Jacket: Near Fine

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