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.
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
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.
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 darkly twisted detective ghost tale, from the winner of the Guardian Children's Book Prize. Davie travels his small town in search of a supposed murderer. But the landscape soon starts to blur into something dark and twisted. He must make sense of the landscape, if he has any chance of finding answers. The people he encounters on his travels don't seem entirely real either. Then he meets the victim of the murder ... but, is he dead, or alive?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Davie and his friend Geordie watch the arrival of a new boy, Stephen Rose, in their town. But perhaps he's the answer to Davie and Geordie's prayers - a secret weapon in their war against monstrous Mouldy and his gang, and, Davie and Geordie befriend Stephen. But they are heading down a path that brings with it a monster of an unexpected nature.
L'oncle de Stan est devenu complètement fou ! Il a transformé la maison tout entière en une conserverie de poissons. Du matin au soir, le pauvre Stan y travaille à une cadence infernale. Jusqu'au jour où... trop c'est trop !
Et si l'aventure l'attendait là, à la fête foraine : « Approchez, venez découvrir le remarquable, le prodigieux, le légendaire Pancho Pirelli, l'homme qui nage avec les piranhas ! » Stan Potts aura-t-il lui aussi le courage de plonger dans le terrible bassin ?
Un roman d'initiation tout en fantaisie. David Almond vous entraîne dans le manège de la vie, à la rencontre de personnages délicieusement inoubliables.
Stanley Potts is just an ordinary boy, but when all the jobs in Fish Quay disappear his Uncle Ernie develops an extraordinary fascination with canning fish. Suddenly their home is filled with the sound of clanging machinery and the stench of mackerel, and Uncle Ernie's obsession reaches such heights that he would even can Stan's beloved goldfish.
