Recent Event Highlights: His latest novel, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (Sweden), (Sweden) (shortlist), Carnegie Medal (shortlist) and Costa Children's Book Award (shortlist) , Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (USA), Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (shortlist), Michael L. Printz Award (USA) , and 9 more...
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My name is Mina
Illustrated by Polly Dunbar, Walker
Illustrated by Dave McKean, Walker
Illustrated by Dave McKean, Walker. Features a young boy who finds his own way to come to terms with the darker side of life and human nature. Blue has lost his Dad, and in his grief turns to story-writing, creating a wild-child character who embodies the darker aspects of his own nature - those parts that struggle to find acknowledgement and expression in daily life. Once again, the boundaries between reality and fantasy are blurred, as Blue's story begins to take on a life of its own The Savage offers a candid depiction of the raw and overpowering emotions of grief, yet ultimately affirms the healing power of love and a supportive family.
Hodder Children's Books
Illustrated by Polly Dunbar, Walker
Scholastic
Skellig
Clay
Is also set in 1960s Northumberland, exploring a working-class Catholic community and gradually bringing in supernatural elements. It is very much a crossover novel - its darker nature makes it more suitable for teens and even adult readers. Teenagers Davie and Geordie befriend Stephen, a strange and mysterious new boy who makes models out of clay. Stephen shows his new friends that they can make things come to life, but these new-found supernatural powers bring chaos and confusion to Davie's life.
The Fire Eaters
Hodder Children's Books
The Fire Eaters
The Fire Eaters
The Fire Eaters
The Fire Eaters
Centres on the fortunes of Bobby Burns and his encounters with a fire-eating devil called McNulty.
Hodder Children's Books
Hodder Children's Books
Counting Stars was published
Was published
Kit's Wilderness
Carnegie Medal (Heaven Eyes)
Hodder Children's Books
Hodder Children's Books
Carnegie Medaland ( Kit's Wilderness)
Is a collection of children's stories
It was awarded a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Silver Award) and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
He won this becuase of the book Heaven Eyes
He was given an Arts Council Writers' Award to work on Kit's Wilderness
Features another young boy, 13-year-old Kit, who has just moved with his family to a old coal-mining town in order to be close to his ageing grandfather. In this novel the echoes of Almond's childhood environment are particularly acute, for as Kit gets to know his new town and its surrounding area, the novel paints detailed, poignant images of north-eastern landscape and history. Again, daily domestic and emotional life connects to a wider sphere: Kit must adjust to a new school and new friends, while his introduction to his schoolmates' game of 'Death' in the old mines links him to the ancestors of local people. Meanwhile, his grandfather encourages him to explore his imagination by writing his own stories, and thus Kit, like Almond, learns to intertwine the ordinary world with magic and creativity through the power of storytelling.
He won this besuase of the book Kit's Wilderness
Skellig, the story of a strange, part-human 'creature' who transforms the lives of two young children forever. Amd was an instant success, both commercially and critically. The first print-run sold out within a few days, and the novel achieved the rare honour of two prestigious awards: the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. Skellig draws on Almond's own childhood experiences: the protagonist, Michael, has a baby sister who is seriously ill and the family is therefore in emotional chaos. However, while Almond was helpless to save his own sister, Michael finds a mysterious source of help in the garage: Skellig, a surreal creature who is part-tramp and part-angel, neither wholly ordinary nor wholly supernatural. However, like most of Almond's child characters, Michael is by no means a passive beneficiary: on the contrary, it is Skellig who first needs help from Michael and his friend Mina, who nurture him with food, medicine and friendship. Skellig has been acclaimed, particularly for the way in which it intertwines the realist elements of the story - the crisis experienced by Michael and his family as the baby undergoes major surgery - with subtle threads of the spiritual and the supernatural. Almond also keeps some of the story's mysterious elements open-ended - by refusing to fill in all the gaps, he allows his readers space to think for themselves.
He won this becuase of the book Skellig
A Kind of Heaven
His first book, Sleepless Nights, a collection of short stories for adults
Newcastle upon Tyne
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