Raven Summer

A Way to the Stars

Kit's Wilderness

The Colour of the Sun

My Dad's a Birdman

Slog's Dad

Half a Creature from the Sea: A Life in Stories

The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas

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

Raven Summer

David Almond, 2009

A Way to the Stars

David Almond, 2023

Kit's Wilderness

David Almond, 1999

The Colour of the Sun

David Almond, 2018

My Dad's a Birdman

David Almond, Polly Dunbar, 2007

Slog's Dad

David Almond, Dave McKean, 2010

Half a Creature from the Sea: A Life in Stories

David Almond, Eleanor Taylor, 2014

The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas

David Almond, Almond D, 2012