Mina, 9 ans, vit seule avec sa mère depuis la mort de son père. Le plus souvent réfugiée dans son arbre à l'abri du monde, elle joue avec les mots, invente des histoires, raconte sa vie de tous les jours, le bonheur de regarder la vie d'en haut, parmi les oiseaux, loin du monde d'en bas, où elle a eu si peur. C'est d'amitié et de la liberté que nous parle Mina.
Écrire son journal intime lui permettra-t-il de nous confier son secret et d'enfin s'ouvrir au monde ?
The beautiful and haunting novel that launched David Almond as one of the best children's writers of today When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain. Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical. A strange creature - part owl, part angel, a being who needs Michael's help if he is to survive. With his new friend Mina, Michael nourishes Skellig back to health, while his baby sister languishes in the hospital. But Skellig is far more than he at first appears, and as he helps Michael breathe life into his tiny sister, Michael's world changes for ever . . . Skellig won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award and is now a major Sky1 feature film, starring Tim Roth and John Simm. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award. Powerful and moving - The Guardian This newly jacketed edition celebrates 15 years of this multi-award-winning novel.
Après la mort de son père, elaine s'est peu à peu coupée du monde.
Heureusement, elle s'invente un ami imaginaire, petit sauvage. elle retrouve avec lui les jeux merveilleux enseignés par son père, dans un jardin peuplé de rêves et de sortilèges.
A stunning new story from the bestselling, prize-winning David Almond, bringing us the magic that surrounds the everyday. Mina, from the unforgettable Skellig and My Name is Mina , journeys to Japan and discovers another reality that is visible to all of us, if you look closely enough. This wonderful tale transports Mina to Kyoto, Japan, an entirely new and different cultural landscape, where she encounters the magic of origami and an older magic, too. She accepts an origami paper boat from a woman on the bus. ''Ko-ni-chi-wa,'' says the woman, ''Take it.'' And then, ''Float it.'' Mina watches as the woman''s fingers fold another elaborate paper form: creased, tugged and teased into the shape of a paper bird. She imagines what it would be like to be a sheet of paper in the woman''s hands, to become a paper Mina. The crowds around her disappear and Kyoto is gone. This is a beautiful story from one of the masters of magical realism, David Almond, with stunning illustrations from Kirsti Beautyman. "Spell-binding... impossible to resist... breathless, intoxicating prose. [Almond''s] books seem to exist in their own otherworldly universe, outside all the trends in modern publishing, yet resolutely of the now." The Glasgow Herald "David Almond''s books are strange, unsettling wild things - unfettered by the normal constraints of children''s literature. They are, like all great literature, beyond classification." The Guardian "[David Almond] is that rare thing - a writer of lucid, mature elegance, who can still see the world through adolescent eyes." The Daily Telegraph "A writer of visionary Blakean intensity." The Times "A master storyteller." The Independent
" ils croyaient que nous avions disparu et ils se.
Ils nous croyaient morts et ils se trompaient. nous sommes passés ensemble des anciennes ténèbres à une vallée étincelante oú le soleil nous inonda. le monde entier, couvert de glace et de neige, étincelait. qui aurait pu penser que nous marcherions ensemble avec tant de joie, après ce que nous avions vécu ? tout avait commencé par un jeu. " sur la lande, kit rencontre askew, qui va l'entraîner dans les profondeurs d'anciennes mines de charbon et l'initier au jeu de la mort.
Ensemble, ils vont rencontrer les fantômes de leurs ancêtres. kit commence à défier la mort. et la vie. jusqu'oú les mènera cette expérience qui va se révéler dangereuse ? une histoire envoûtante, pleine d'énigmes et de magie.
« Je suis celle qui reste. Je suis celle qui doit raconter. Je les ai connus tous les deux, je sais comment ils ont vécu et comment ils sont morts ».Claire est la meilleure amie d'Ella Grey. Elle était là au moment du coup de foudre avec le beau et mystérieux Orphée. Celui qui a rendu Ella si vivante et qui a causé sa perte. Celui qui est prêt à descendre dans les profondeurs des enfers pour la ramener.
A la mort de son père, Blue se met à écrire sur un carnet pour exprimer son chagrin avec ses mots à lui.
Il imagine alors un personnage, celui d'un jeune garçon qui vit dans le bois voisin et rôde aux alentours. Un être affrayant, qui ne parle pas, le sauvage. Blue s'invente une histoire si vraie qu'elle commence à se confondre avec la réalité... Un roman graphique étonnant. L'émotion surgit avec force du récit de David Almond, magnifiquement portée par le dessin de Dave McKean, artiste de renommée internationale.
Un inconnu vient d'arriver au village : Stephen Rose. Pas de parents, pas d'amis, teint cireux, regard envoutant, et puis cette odeur... Il va vivre chez Mary la Folle. Beaucoup de rumeurs courent sur Stephen. Mais une chose est sûre : les étranges créatures qu'il modèle dans la glaise ont quelque chose de magique. Davie et Georgie devraient-ils garder leurs distances ? ou tenter de s'en rapprocher ? Stephen pourrait-il devenir un allié dans la lutte terrible qui les oppose au monstrueux Mouldy et sa bande ?
Joe malloney n'est vraiment pas comme les autres.
Tout le monde le voudrait différent : sa mère qui aimerait tant qu'il grandisse, ses professeurs qui ne le voient jamais en classe, même son meilleur ami, qui le trouve trop sensible.
Mais l'esprit de joe est ailleurs et lorsqu'un tigre surgit dans ses rêves, le jeune garçon n'hésite pas à le suivre au coeur de la nuit pour la plus merveilleuse des aventures. une fable onirique sur la tolérance et le respect des différences.
Par un auteur de grand talent, le portrait émouvant d'un jeune garçon à la recherche de son identité.
From the bestselling, award-winning David Almond comes a book of hope and joy: under a boundless starry sky, the unforgettable Sylvia Carr finds out what it means to be brave. For readers of Michael Morpurgo and Katherine Rundell, from the author of the beloved Skellig. She felt like a ghost. She woke in the night. What was that music? Sylvia has never been so far away. Her mother has brought her to this village, this place of silence and dark, endless forest, and she yearns for the city, the bright lights, her friends, even a phone signal. Late one night she hears the music, a weird jagged spiralling sound. It is played by Gabriel, a troubled, beautiful boy. Gabriel uses the strangest of flutes, a hollow bone. Play it well enough, he says, and you cross the borders between the living and the dead. Sylvia knows she''ll follow him into the depths of the forest. But will they ever find their way out again? Praise for David Almond: "A master storyteller." Independent "Spell-binding... impossible to resist... breathless, intoxicating prose. [Almond''s] books seem to exist in their own otherworldly universe, outside all the trends in modern publishing, yet resolutely of the now." Glasgow Herald "David Almond''s books are strange, unsettling wild things - unfettered by the normal constraints of children''s literature. They are, like all great literature, beyond classification." Guardian "[David Almond] is that rare thing - a writer of lucid, mature elegance, who can still see the world through adolescent eyes." Daily Telegraph
A WARM AND WITTY TALE , AUTHOR OF CARNEGIE MEDAL-WINNING «SKELLIG» « THE BOY WHO SWAM WITH PIRANHAS» Bert and Betty brown have got themselves a little angel. bert found him in his top pocket when he was driving his bus. Bert and Betty's friends think he's lovely. so do Nancy and Jack and Alice from class 5k. what a wonder! But acting head teacher mrs mole is not so sure. nor is professor smellie. or the mysterious bloke in black who claims to be a school inspector. Then there's basher malone-big, lumbering basher malone. he really doesn't like Angelino.
I'm the one who's left behind. I'm the one to tell the tale. I knew them both... knew how they lived and how they died.
Claire is Ella Grey's best friend. She's there when the whirlwind arrives on the scene: catapulted into a North East landscape of gutted shipyards; of high arched bridges and ancient collapsed mines. She witnesses a love so dramatic it is as if her best friend has been captured and taken from her. But the loss of her friend to the arms of Orpheus is nothing compared to the loss she feels when Ella is taken from the world. This is her story - as she bears witness to a love so complete; so sure, that not even death can prove final.
Un été long et chaud.
La campagne sauvage du Nord de l'Angleterre. Un bébé abandonné trouvé dans des ruines. Et la vie de Liam, adolescent épris de liberté, va basculer. Un matin, son père, écrivain, lui parle du phénomène d'imprégnation... Comme toujours avec le grand David Almond, la magie opère dès les premières lignes. L'histoire envoûtante d'un adolescent confronté à de grandes questions : l'adieu à l'enfance, les ravages de la violence, l'amitié, la tolérance, l'adoption...
Robert, dit Bobby, âgé de onze ans, vit à Keely Bay, une petite ville côtière du nord de l'Angleterre, au bord d'une mer qui charrie du charbon. On est en 1962, une année décisive pour lui et pour le monde. Les Américains découvrent que des missiles soviétiques sont dirigés vers les États-Unis. C'est la crise de Cuba. On vit dans la crainte d'une Troisième guerre mondiale...
Cet été-là, Bobby rencontre McNulty, un cracheur de feu fascinant, au passé douloureux. Il a fait la guerre et celle-ci l'a détruit. Une étrange amitié, un mélange d'admiration et de compassion, naît entre ces deux êtres. Leur chemin se croisera à plusieurs reprises jusqu'à la mort de McNulty...
Cette année, c'est aussi pour Bobby, issu de la classe ouvrière, l'entrée au collège : il est reçu au concours d'entrée d'un établissement réputé. La jolie Ailsa, la jeune charbonnière dont il est amoureux, ne l'y suivra pa. De nouveaux horizons s'offrent à lui. Mais au collège, le mépris et les châtiments corporels sont incessants. Daniel, un nouveau, se révolte en accrochant des photos du directeur en train de les battre. Bobby devient son allié. Ils sont renvoyés. Qu'importe, ils ont combattu pour trouver leur place dans un monde plus juste.
From the bestselling, award-winning author of SKELLIG comes a vivid and moving story, beautifully illustrated, which commemorates the hundred-year anniversary of the end of the First World War. "I am just a child," says John. "How can I be at war?" It's 1918, and war is everywhere. John's dad is fighting in the trenches far away in France. His mum works in the munitions factory just along the road. His teacher says that John is fighting, too, that he is at war with enemy children in Germany. One day, in the wild woods outside town, John has an impossible moment: a meeting with a German boy named Jan. John catches a glimpse of a better world, in which children like Jan and himself can come together, and scatter the seeds of peace. Gorgeously illustrated by David Litchfield, this is a book to treasure.
A beautifully imagined story for fans of Neil Gaiman, by the dream team of bestselling author, David Almond and award-winning artist, Dave McKean. Joe Quinn tells everyone about the poltergeist in his house, but no one believes him. No one that is, except for Davie.
This is a moving, funny and inspirational novel from the bestselling author of Skellig. "The day is long, the world is wide, you're young and free." One hot summer morning, Davie steps boldly out of his front door. The world he enters is very familiar - the little Tyneside town that has always been his home - but as the day passes, it becomes ever more mysterious. A boy has been killed, and Davie thinks he might know who is responsible. He turns away from the gossip and excitement and sets off roaming towards the sunlit hills above the town. As the day goes on, the real and the imaginary start to merge, and Davie knows that neither he nor his world will ever be the same again. This an outstanding novel full of warmth and light, from a multi-award-winning author. David Almond says: 'I guess it embodies my constant astonishment at being alive in this beautiful, weird, extraordinary world.'
Award-winning author David Almond reintroduces readers to the perceptive, sensitive Mina before the events of Skellig in this lyrical and fantastical work. My Name is Mina is not only a pleasure to read, it is an intimate and enlightening look at a character whose open mind and heart have much to teach us about life, love, and the mysteries that surround us.br>br>Mina loves the night. While everyone else is in a deep slumber, she gazes out the window, witness to the moon''s silvery light. In the stillness, she can even hear her own heart beating. This is when Mina feels that anything is possible and her imagination is set free.br>br>A blank notebook lies on the table. It has been there for what seems like forever. Mina has proclaimed in the past that she will use it as a journal, and one night, at last, she begins to do just that. As she writes, Mina makes discoveries both trivial and profound about herself and her world, her thoughts and her dreams.
