David Almond, Author . Random/Yearling $5.99 (218p) ISBN 978-0-440-42012-5
"Bobby's reflections, enhanced by powerful images of nature, convey the young protagonist's uncertainties and a sense of the world itself being on the cusp of change, in the fall of 1962," according to PW
. Ages 8-up. (Nov.)
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David Almond. Delacorte, $15.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-74073-9
This intimate prequel to Skellig is built around Mina McKee, the curious and brilliant home-schooled child who eventually befriends that book’s protagonist, Michael. Mina, a budding writer, reveals her love of words in her journal; most of the book...
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David Almond, Author Random House Audio Publishing Group $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-52643-1
British author Almond confidently narrates this recording of his first novel for young people. Michael and his family have just moved to a new home, which proves more dramatic than any of them had imagined. The house is a true fixer-upper, and...
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David Almond, Author Delacorte Press $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-32665-0
Revisiting many of the themes from Skellig, Almond offers another tantalizing blend of human drama, surrealism and allegory. He opens the novel with a triumphant scene, in which Kit Watson, the 13-year-old narrator, and his classmates, John Askew...
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David Almond, Author Delacorte Press $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-32653-7
British novelist Almond makes a triumphant debut in the field of children's literature with prose that is at once eerie, magical and poignant. Broken down into 46 succinct, eloquent chapters, the story begins in medias res with narrator Michael...
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David Almond. Candlewick, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6309-4
A boy named Billy Dean—born at the very moment terrorists blew up his town, starting World War III—narrates this mesmerizing post-apocalyptic tale from Carnegie- and Printz-winner Almond. Written in a difficult Geordie dialect, further complicated...
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David Almond, Author . Delacorte $16.99 (198p) ISBN 978-0-385-73806-4
In a thought-provoking coming-of-age story, British writer Almond (Skellig
; Clay
) delves into the darkest realm of the human psyche as he expresses the conflicting urges of an adolescent. Liam is walking with a friend when a mysterious raven leads
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David Almond. Candlewick, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7310-9
In a powerfully realistic bildungsroman from award-winning author Almond (The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean), Dominic Hall, the son of a working man from Newcastle, seems destined for greater success than was possible for his ill-educated and...
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David Almond, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-385-90208-3
Perhaps the most unsettling of Almond's supernatural novels (Skellig
; Kit's Wilderness
) this eerie tale shows the disastrous effects of two boys attempting to play God. At his priest's request, altar boy David befriends a new member of
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David Almond. Delacorte, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-553-53359-0
Almond (The Tightrope Walkers) gracefully interfuses ancient archetypes with contemporary situations in this retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Set in northern England—a landscape familiar to Almond’s fans—the novel is told from the point...
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David Almond, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-385-73170-6
Although this distinctively British novel contains a dark quality and mystical overtone that will be familiar to Almond's (Skellig
; Kit's Wilderness
) fans, the story's underpinnings are very much grounded in reality. In September 1962,
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David Almond, Author . Dell/ Laurel-Leaf $5.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-440-41826-9
"In this evocative collection of autobiographical vignettes," wrote PW
in a starred review, "readers can trace connecting threads between Almond's published works and his childhood experience as a sensitive, pensive English child...
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Readers spellbound by the intriguing characters and surrealistic flavor of Almond's previous works will be eager to dive into the murky waters of this third novel, set in a riverside orphanage. Erin Law, one of the "damaged" orphan...
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David Almond, Author . Dell
/Laurel-Leaf $5.50 (256p) ISBN 978-0-440-22910-0
/Laurel-Leaf $5.50 (256p) ISBN 978-0-440-22910-0
Three orphan children residing at Whitegate set out on an adventure-cum-rescue mission and discover a ghostlike girl with webbed hands. "The tantalizing settings and poetic narrative have a lingering effect, much like a prophetic dream,"...
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David Almond, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-72947-5
As mysterious and spiritual as Almond's previous novels (Skellig; Kit's Wilderness) this initiation story explores the contrasting worlds of dreams and wakefulness, then forms an artful meshing of the two realms. Around the time a circus...
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David Almond, Author . Delacorte $16.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-90034-8
In this evocative collection of autobiographical vignettes, Almond's writing exudes the same haunting mood that characterizes his novels (Skellig; Kit's Wilderness; Heaven Eyes). Here, readers can trace connecting threads between his...
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David Almond, illus. by Salvatore Rubbino. Candlewick, $16.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7636-8975-9
In a moving and exuberantly illustrated short story, 11-year-old Liam has entered the Junior Great North Run with his friend Jacksie, but his Saturday morning practice is preempted by his mother, who takes him to visit their elderly neighbor. Harry...
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David Almond, Author, Polly Dunbar, Illustrator , illus. by Polly Dunbar. Candlewick $15.99 (117p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4217-4
Almond (Raven Summer
) shows his playful side in this story of an urban boy with a large imagination and unconventional neighbors. Paul, who lives in the basement apartment of a high-rise, yearns to touch the sky. He goes on an adventure to the top...
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David Almond, illus. by Oliver Jeffers. Candlewick, $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6169-4
As he did in The Boy Who Climbed to the Moon, Almond strikes a lighter, more whimsical note in the story of orphan Stanley Potts. After Stanley’s guardian, Uncle Ernie, is fired from his job, the man quickly rebounds with “big, big plans” to build a
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David Almond, illus. by Eleanor Taylor. Candlewick, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7877-7
Beyond offering eight alluring epiphany stories (most previously published elsewhere), Almond (The Tightrope Walkers) provides a rare glimpse into the writer’s imagination and the process of creation. “I try to do what many writers have done before...
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David Almond, Author, Graeme Malcolm, Read by , read by Graeme Malcolm. Listening Library $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-0945-5
With a reading as nimble and sure as cat feet, British actor Malcolm seems at home in the strange, exotic world of Almond's latest fantasy. Young Joe Maloney has never felt comfortable in his own skin. He sees creatures and hears voices that...
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David Almond and Dave McKean, Candlewick, $15.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4940-1
Another haunting and beautiful book from the U.K. team that produced The Savage in 2008. Almond, winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award, has written a pitch-perfect story about a boy who believes that his father has returned to...
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David Almond, illus. by Dave McKean. Candlewick, $17.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5912-7
Almond and McKean, the collaborators behind The Savage and Slog’s Dad, take on themes worthy of Greek tragedy: human ambition, the emergence of evil, and the power of the individual to resist it. Harry, Sue, and Little Ben live in a world whose lazy
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David Almond, Author, Steven Lambert, Illustrator , illus. by Stephen Lambert. Doubleday $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-385-74691-5
Almond (Skellig
) ventures into the picture book genre with this small, lyric gem. "Once, in a shining night," the tale begins, as young Kate, summoned by a feline friend, becomes a cat herself. Lambert (Secrets in the Mist
) depicts her...
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Linda Sue Park, Author, David Almond, Author, Eoin Colfer, Author et al. Scholastic/Levine $16.99 (217p) ISBN 978-0-439-41138-7
Ten distinguished authors each write a chapter of this intriguing novel of mystery and family, which examines the lives touched by a photojournalist George Keane, aka Gee. The first chapter, by Linda Sue Park, begins with Gee’s death and how...
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David Almond. Candlewick, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0785-9
Almond (Skellig) walks the fine line between reality and illusion in this reflective novel about a wandering boy. A few weeks after his father’s death, Davie’s mother urges him to go out into “the lovely world outside that door.” After filling his...
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David Almond, illus. by Alex T. Smith. Candlewick, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9563-7
Bus driver Bert Brown feels like he’s having a heart attack at work, but the fluttering in his chest turns out to be a tiny angel lodged in his pocket. When a stunned Bert brings the creature home to his wife, Betty, she knows just what to do: fix...
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David Almond, illus. by Levi Pinfold. Candlewick, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9597-2
In lilting prose, Andersen Medalist Almond (Skellig) begins with a father who wakes his daughter at dawn: “Bring your fiddle,” he tells her. The dam that will flood their valley in the north of England is almost done. The buildings are empty, their...
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David Almond, illus. by Laura Carlin. Candlewick Studio, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1996-8
A curious stranger brightens a small town in this buoyant picture book by Almond (Annie Lumsden, the Girl from the Sea). White-presenting Nanty Solo, who wears a green sweater, uses a cane, and sits on a park bench in the town square, says she can...
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David Almond, illus. by David Litchfield. Candlewick, $16.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0986-0
Taut and teeming with emotion, Almond’s historical novel is an affecting portrait of an English boy’s perspective on a seemingly endless, unfathomable war. In 1918, John’s father has been off fighting in France for so long that John hardly remembers
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David Almond, illus. by Dave McKean. Candlewick, $17.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0160-4
Opening with an introduction from Almond describing the deaths of his sister when he was seven and his father when he 15, as well as his childhood interest in the occult, this sophisticated graphic novel is an exploration of life, death, and meaning.
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David Almond, illus. by Beatrice Alemagna. Candlewick, $16.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1674-5
Annie Lumsden and her sea shanty–singing mother, who “finds tales everywhere,” live in a modest white house “above the jetsam line,” from which parts of the village of Stupor can be glimpsed. The 13-year-old, a white only child with learning...
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David Almond, illus. by Marta Altés. Candlewick, $18.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2270-8
A child questions life’s routines and predictabilities in Almond’s (Annie Lumsden, the Girl from the Sea) gently existential telling. When new kid George shows up at Darwin Avenue Primary Academy in the last week of term, no one knows quite what to...
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David Almond, illus. by Lizzy Stewart. Candlewick, $18.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3917-1
After donating the bulk of his creations to a museum, elderly puppet master
Silvester uses scraps from his remaining inventory to construct one last figure to resemble a small child, which he calls Puppet. To Silvester’s amazement, Puppet comes to...
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