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story of saint kevin children s books ireland find out more the falling boy the falling boy he could be anyone he could be you from the bestselling award winning author of skellig comes a heartfelt unforgettable story perfect for readers of michael morpurgo and the final year nothing is the same for joff this summer his dad is ill his mam is working there s a new kid in town he can t wait to escape each day and explore with his dog jet but there s one place he s not allowed to explore above the town sits the chapel of doom ancient and crumbling with its warning signs and the legend of the falling boy and when joff s adventures take find out more skellig the 25th anniversary illustrated edition 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 this unforgettable book now has captivating illustrations by tom de freston to celebrate its twenty fifth anniversary when a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister s illness michael s world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain one sunday afternoon he stumbles into the ramshackle garage of his new home and finds something magical a strange creature human beast bird angel a being who the sort of children s book that makes adults find excuses to read more of them times educational supplement find out more island love death hope the island will change their lives forever from the bestselling david almond author of skellig and now with fantastic illustrations by the award winning david litchfield louise has travelled with her father to the island every year since she can remember it s the place her mother loved best of all the arrival of hassan changes everything louise is restless and yearning for independence meanwhile the fiercely free and self reliant hassan seems to know the island from long ago as if it were his home from birth hassan is an acrobat maybe a sorcerer possibly a source there really is nobody quite like almond writing in children s or adult s fiction today the times find out more annie lumsden the girl from the sea a magical story about finding your identity from one of the most acclaimed storytellers of his generation richly illustrated in full colour by an internationally renowned artist my mother says that all things can be turned to tales i thought she meant tales like fish tails but i was wrong she meant tales like this tales that are stories but this tale of mine is very like a fish tail too annie has never been like the other girls her mam tried sending her to school when she was small but annie couldn t seem to make words or numbers stick find out more paper boat paper bird a stunning new story from the bestselling prize winning david almond unfolding the magic of the everyday mina from the unforgettable skellig and my name is mina journeys to japan and discovers the wonders of the world around her kyoto japan mina is on a bus everything is strange and beautiful mina watches as a woman folds a piece of paper into an origami boat then floats it over to her as mina discovers the magic of origami her eyes are opened to the wonders of the real city around her unfold the magic of the everyday on a journey with one of the world s david almond is that rare thing a writer of lucid mature elegance who can still see the world through adolescent eyes the daily telegraph find out more brand new boy mam did you think george was i say a bit weird weird yes i suppose so but you kids are all a bit weird if you ask me and to tell the truth it d be weird if you weren t when a new boy joins the class everyone thinks he s a bit strange but he s brilliant at football and loves crisps and that s all that matters to dan and maxie however the truth about george is stranger than anyone could have imagined and more sinister too can his new pals help him to become truly free almond takes a thought provoking find out more bone music from the bestselling award winning david almond comes a book of hope and joy under a boundless starry sky the unforgettable sylvia carr finds out what it means to be brave for readers of michael morpurgo and katherine rundell from the author of the beloved skellig she felt like a ghost she woke in the night what was that music sylvia has never been so far away her mother has brought her to this village this place of silence and dark endless forest and she yearns for the city the bright lights her friends even a phone signal late one night she find out more war is over from the bestselling award winning author of skellig comes a vivid and moving story beautifully illustrated written to commemorate the hundred year anniversary of the end of the first world war i am just a child says john how can i be at war it s 1918 and war is everywhere john s dad is fighting in the trenches far away in france his mum works in the munitions factory just along the road his teacher says that john is fighting too that he is at war with enemy children in germany one day in the wild woods outside town john has an impossible moment a find out more the colour of the sun this is a moving funny and inspirational novel from the bestselling author of skellig shortlisted for the 2018 costa book awards the day is long the world is wide you re young and free one hot summer morning davie steps boldly out of his front door the world he enters is very familiar the little tyneside town that has always been his home but as the day passes it becomes ever more mysterious a boy has been killed and davie thinks he might know who is responsible he turns away from the gossip and excitement and sets off roaming towards find out more the dam a lyrical captivating and beautiful picture book by carnegie medal winner david almond illustrated by kate greenaway medal winner levi pinfold when a great dam was built by the kielder water in northumberland the valley below slowly filled with water but just before this when the villagers had been moved out two musicians went back to the abandoned valley they tore down the boards over the houses stepped inside and started to play for this would be the last time that music would be heard in this place in this astonishing picture book that combines themes of loss hope and music find out more joe quinn s poltergeist a dark powerful and moving short story from the internationally acclaimed author of skellig a beautifully imagined story for fans of neil gaiman by the dream team of bestselling author david almond and award winning artist dave mckean joe quinn tells everyone about the poltergeist in his house but no one believes him no one that is except for davie he s felt the inexplicable presence in the rooms he s seen random objects fly through the air and there s something else a memory of his beloved sister and a feeling deep down that somehow it might be possible for ghosts to find out more the tale of angelino brown a warm and witty tale from a master storyteller author of carnegie medal winning skellig and internationally bestseller the boy who swam with piranhas bert and betty brown have got themselves a little angel bert found him in his top pocket when he was driving his bus bert and betty s friends think he s lovely so do nancy and jack and alice from class 5k what a wonder but acting head teacher mrs mole is not so sure nor is professor smellie or the mysterious bloke in black who claims to be a school inspector then there s basher malone big lumbering find out more the tightrope walkers the interplay between the characters and their environments results in a stunningly human and humanizing story this is by far almond s best work to date bulletin of the center for children s books starred review a gentle visionary coming of age in the shadow of the shipyards of northern england dominic hall is torn between extremes he craves the freedom he feels when he balances above the earth on a makeshift tightrope with the eccentric girl artist next door holly stroud his first and abiding love yet he also finds himself drawn to the brutal charms of vincent mcalinden a complex bully who find out more harry miller s run that s reet lad run there s a wolf at your tail run for your lovely life a joyful uplifting story of times gone by from the internationally acclaimed author of skellig illustrated in full colour by the award winning illustrator of a walk in london liam just wants to go out running with his mates it s not long till the junior great north run and there s training to be done but mam needs him today to help old harry clear out his house harry knows a thing or two about running when he was a lad he says he ran all the way from newcastle find out more half a creature from the sea an anthology of dark powerful and moving short stories from a master storyteller and hans christian andersen award winning author inspired by his childhood in the north east of england a diverse collection of stories from the author of the internationally award winning skellig deftly interwoven with illuminating autobiographical pieces on the inspirations behind the fiction david almond says of this unique volume stories on the page are so beautifully neat all that lovely black print those lovely straight lines and paragraphs and pages but stories are living things creatures that move and grow in the imaginations of writer and reader they must find out more the boy who climbed into the moon a magnificent tale of crackpot notions and sky high courage from david almond the master of magical realism with illustrations by the award winning polly dunbar paul believes that the moon is not the moon but is a great hole in the sky it s one of many strange ideas that he s never told anyone at school he was told that he had no ideas at all until he meets molly his irrepressible neighbour who begins to convince him that his theory might just change the world helped by a very long ladder some highly irregular characters two rather worried parents and find out more my dad s a birdman join a father and daughter as they find their wings together and take to the skies in this funny tender tale from the master of contemporary storytelling a warm and wonderfully wacky tale told with heart and hope by the carnegie award winning author david almond lizzie and dad live in a rainy town in the north of england it s just the two of them and auntie doreen who pops round to check lizzie s spellings and tell dad he s daft and make them nice hot dumplings but today there s something unusual going on why is dad building himself a find out more a song for ella grey winner of the guardian children s book prize 2015 i m the one who s left behind i m the one to tell the tale i knew them both knew how they lived and how they died claire is ella grey s best friend she s there when the whirlwind arrives on the scene catapulted into a north east landscape of gutted shipyards ofhigh arched bridges and ancient collapsed mines she witnesses a love so dramatic it is as if her best friend has been captured and taken from her but the loss of her friend to the arms of orpheus is nothing compared to the find out more klaus vogel and the bad lads a poignant and powerful narrative about intolerance when a german refugee moves to a small english town in the aftermath of world war ii he is an outsider the gang decide to take klaus under their wing but their increasingly hateful pranks under the leadership of new lad joe cause klaus to question their actions a powerful and emotive tale about standing up to bullies particularly suitable for struggling reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 12 find out more mouse bird snake wolf the dream team of david almond and dave mckean bring us a complete story set in an incomplete world the gods have created a world they ve built mountains a sea and a sky and now their days are filled with long naps in the clouds and tea and cake that s until harry sue and little ben begin to fill the gaps of the world with a mousy thing a chirpy thing and a twisty legless thing as the children s ideas take shape the power of their visions proves to be greater than they or the gods could ever find out more heaven eyes erin january and mouse live in a children s home whitegates they often dream of escape and frequently journey into the outside world running away is something they know all about but this time january builds a raft and the three of them head precariously down river towards the black middens this time they might never come back when they stumble across a disused factory and its strange inhabitants grampa and heaven eyes they wonder if they ll even have the choice heaven eyes is the girl who should have drowned at sea the mysterious girl desperately searching for her find out more my name is mina 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 i open the book and write the very first words my name is mina and i love the night then what shall i write i can t just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum i ll let my journal grow just like the mind does just like a tree or a beast does just like life does why should a book tell a tale find out more the fire eaters there he was below the bridge half naked eyes blazing he had a pair of burning torches he ran them back and forth across his skin he sipped from a bottle breathed across a torch and fire and fumes leapt from his lips the air was filled with the scent of paraffin he breathed again a great high spreading flag of fire he glared he roared like an animal that summer life had seemed perfect for bobby burns but now it s autumn and the winds of change are blowing hard bobby s dad is mysteriously ill his new school is a cold find out more counting stars in counting stars david almond tackles the themes common to his work joy darkness love death and identity with exquisite sensitivity and tenderness david s childhood in the north of england was the inspiration for much of his work and in these beautiful stories he creates a tangible picture of growing up in a large catholic family but the sense of mystery and wonderment we have come to expect from david is also present and it is fascinating to see the kernels of his novels revealed a must read for almond fans everywhere sparely written this could well be almond s best work yet find out more jackdaw summer every summer liam and max roam the wild countryside of northumberland but this year things are different one hot summer s day a jackdaw leads the two boys into an ancient farm house where they find a baby wrapped in a blanket with a scribbled note pinned to it plese look after her rite this is a childe of god and so begins jackdaw summer a summer when friendships are tested a summer when lines between good and bad are blurred a summer that liam will never forget thought provoking...