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For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, For National Curriculum Key Stage 3, Interest age: from c 9 years, Interest age: from c 11 years, Interest age: from c 12 years, Fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage), Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Playscripts (Children's / Teenage)
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- Paperback Jun 14, 2011 | 9780340997260 | RRP $17.99 Buy Now
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- Audiobook Nov 17, 2011 | 9781444910384 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
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Hodder Children's Books
- Paperback Jun 14, 2011 | 9780340997260 | RRP $17.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Nov 14, 2013 | 9781444910643 | RRP $10.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Nov 17, 2011 | 9781444910384 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
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Hodder Children's Books
- Paperback Jun 14, 2011 | 9780340997260 | RRP $17.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Nov 14, 2013 | 9781444910643 | RRP $10.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Nov 17, 2011 | 9781444910384 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
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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.
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.
Praise for My Name is Mina
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a master novelist - Independent
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There really is nobody quite like Almond writing in children's or adults' fiction today. - The Times
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Almond manages to make a work of art out of the simplest words. - Amanda Craig, The Times
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Unsettling but, as ever, beautifully written. - Daily Mail
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One of these days, someone is going to notice that David Almond has been kidnapped by children's publishing and demand him back for adults. But until then, we must rejoice in every new offering of his. - Sunday Telegraph
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"This is a novel of power and beauty." - The Daily Telegraph
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Almond promotes and celebrates freedom for children and their thinking in this lyrical book about growing up. - Guardian (Julia Eccleshare)
David Almond
David Almond is the author of Skellig, My Name is Mina, Island, Bone Music and many other novels, stories, picture books, opera librettos, songs and plays. His work is translated into 40 languages, and is widely adapted for stage and screen. His major awards include the Carnegie Medal, two Whitbread Awards, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, the Michael L Printz Award (USA), Le Prix SorciA res (France), the Nonino International Prize, the James Kruss Prize and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He has also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world's most prestigious prize for children's authors. In 2021, David was awarded an OBE for services to literature.
David speaks at festivals and conferences around the world. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. He is widely regarded as one of the most exciting, inspirational and innovative children's authors writing today. He has one amazing daughter. He lives in Newcastle, the city in which he was born.
www.davidalmond.com
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