Skellig - Softcover

Almond, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440229081 ISBN 13: 9780440229087

Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library, 2001

Synopsis

Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house, But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Then he encounters a strange kind of beast in the garage. The only person Michael confides in is his new friend Mina. Together, they carry the creature out into the light and Michael's world changes forever. A Michael L.

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Review:

Michael can feel his sick baby sister's heart beating inside him, and as long as he can feel it he knows she is alive. But as her condition becomes life-threatening and the family faces the nightmare of an operation to save her life, Michael turns to his new friend Mina and the strange being, Skellig, who has been living beneath the crumbling garage at the family's new home.

In this most delicate and tender story of a young boy living in fear of death and coming to terms with life, you can almost touch the indefinable magic that Skellig--part owl, part human, part everything and nothing--brings to Michael's unsettled world.

With the gentle touch of an angel's breath, Almond, in his first novel for children, lets his characters think, feel and believe without overwhelming sentimentality. A dream of a book to touch even the hardest of hearts. --Susan Harrison

Review:

"Its strength as a novel is in its subtlety. . . . Skellig is a fine book." -- The New York Times Book Review

"British novelist Almond makes a triumphant debut in the field of children's literature with prose that is at once eerie, magical, and poignant." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred

About this edition

• Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0440229081
• ISBN 13: 9780440229087
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 182