My Name is Mina - Softcover

Almond, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340997265 ISBN 13: 9780340997260

Publisher: Hodder Children's Books, 2013

Synopsis

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 in a dull straight line?

And so Mina writes and writes in her notebook, and here is her journal, Mina's life in Mina's own words: her stories and dreams, experiences and thoughts, her scribblings and nonsense, poems and songs. Her vivid account of her vivid life.

In this stunning book, David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig.

Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal.

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Review:

A wonderful book. It is joyous. Thank you, David Almond; I cannot remember when a book filled me with such claminosity. (Marcus Sedgewick Guardian.co.uk)

A skillful, affecting and impassioned book. (The Times)

A celebration of the richness of the everyday world and to read it is to feel uplifted. (The Sunday Times)

A rare and beautiful novel. (The Scotsman)

A pitch-perfect prequel to Skellig. A gloriously rich, multi-layered novel. (Ham & High)

A poignant, heart-warming novel fuelled by Almond's generosity of spirit and his endorsement of childhood's individuality and quirkiness. (Books for Keeps)

Another gem from this award-winning author. (INIS (Ireland))

A sensational meditation on creativity and the power of words. A must for any budding writer. (The Daily Telegraph)

Almond's chatty, informal and unique writing is different from anything you have read by him before. (Newcastle Upon Tyne Evening Chronicle)

Almond promotes and celebrates freedom for children and their thinking in this lyrical book about growing up. (The Guardian)

Book Description:

From the winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award the Carnegie Medal and the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award comes the extraordinary prequel to the award-winning Skellig. Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0340997265
• ISBN 13: 9780340997260
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304