A Way to the Stars

My Dad's a Birdman

Slog's Dad

The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas

The Tale of Angelino Brown

Two Plays

Heaven Eyes

Crank

Skellig

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 journal, and through her stories and poems there grows an opus of her life - her lessons, her loves, her beliefs, her mum, her dad, her thoughts and her dreams.

In this stunningly designed book, David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig, in what is a thought-provoking and extraordinary prequel to his best-selling debut novel, Skellig.

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.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

A Way to the Stars

David Almond, 2023

My Dad's a Birdman

David Almond, Polly Dunbar, 2007

Slog's Dad

David Almond, Dave McKean, 2010

The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas

David Almond, Almond D, 2012

The Tale of Angelino Brown

Alex T. Smith, David Almond, 2017

Two Plays

David Almond, 2005

Heaven Eyes

David Almond, 2000

Crank

Anonymous, Beatrice Sparks, Ellen Hopkins, Carlo Corsi, 1971