David Almond
Born
in Newcastle, England, The United Kingdom
May 15, 1951
Website
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Genre
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Skellig (Skellig, #1)
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1998
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My Name Is Mina (Skellig, #0.5)
37 editions
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published
2010
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Kit's Wilderness
63 editions
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published
1999
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Click
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21 editions
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published
2007
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A Song for Ella Grey
19 editions
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published
2014
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Heaven Eyes
45 editions
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published
2000
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Clay
33 editions
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published
2005
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The Savage
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22 editions
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published
2008
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The Fire-Eaters
50 editions
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published
2003
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Mouse Bird Snake Wolf
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6 editions
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published
2013
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“Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery.”
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“I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I’ll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it’s possible to be. I’m growing and I don’t know how to grow. I’m living but I haven’t started living yet. Sometimes I simply disappear from myself. Sometimes it’s like I’m not here in the world at all and I simply don’t exist. Sometimes I can hardly think. My head just drifts, and the visions that come seem so vivid.”
― Jackdaw Summer
― Jackdaw Summer
“What are you?" I whispered.
He shrugged again.
"Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.”
― Skellig
He shrugged again.
"Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.”
― Skellig
Polls
How many of the past Printz winners have you read?
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
A Step from Heaven by An Na
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Looking for Alaska by John Green
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
In Darkness by Nick Lake
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
A Step from Heaven by An Na
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Looking for Alaska by John Green
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
In Darkness by Nick Lake
4 - 6
7 - 9
10 - 12
1 - 3
13
All 14!
None
65 total votes
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