David Almond

David Almond was born in 1951, David Almond has written at least 61 books. Their most popular book is Skellig with 56 saves with an average rating of 3.55⭐.

Author Bio

David Almond is a British children's writer who has penned several novels, each one to critical acclaim. He was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia. When he was young, he found his love of writing when some short stories of his were published in a local magazine. He started out as an author of adult fiction before finding his niche writing literature for young adults.

His first children's novel, Skellig (1998), set in Newcastle, won the Whitbread Children's Novel of the Year Award and also the Carnegie Medal. His subsequent novels are: Kit's Wilderness (1999), Heaven Eyes (2000), Secret Heart (2001), The Fire Eaters (2003) and Clay (2005). His first play aimed at adolescents, Wild Girl, Wild Boy, toured in 2001 and was published in 2002.

His works are highly philosophical and thus appeal to children and adults alike. Recurring themes throughout include the complex relationships between apparent opposites (such as life and death, reality and fiction, past and future); forms of education; growing up and adapting to change; the nature of 'the self'. He has been greatly influenced by the works of the English Romantic poet William Blake.

He is an author often suggested on National Curriculum reading lists in the United Kingdom and has attracted the attention of academics who specialise in the study of children's literature.

Almond currently lives with his family in Northumberland, England.

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Details	Rating	Readers Count
Skellig David Almond	3.55	37 reads
My Name is Mina David Almond	4.17	6 reads
Kit's Wilderness David Almond	4	1 read
A Song for Ella Grey David Almond	3.5	3 reads
The Tightrope Walkers David Almond	4	2 reads
The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War Ursula Dubrovsky Timothée de Fombelle John Boyne A.L. Kennedy Marcus Sedgwick Adèle Geras Tracy Chevalier Frank Cottrell Boyce Sheena Wilkinson David Almond Michael Morpurgo	3	1 read
The Savage David Almond	3	2 reads
Clay David Almond	3.67	3 reads
Half a Creature from the Sea Half a Creature from the Sea: A Life in Stories David Almond	4.5	3 reads
The Color of the Sun David Almond	0	1 read
The Dam David Almond	4.5	2 reads
Click Linda Sue Park Eoin Colfer Roddy Doyle David Almond	2	2 reads
The boy who swam with piranhas David Almond	4	1 read
Brand New Boy David Almond	4	2 reads
Mouse Bird Snake Wolf David Almond	3.5	2 reads
The fire-eaters David Almond	4	2 reads
War is Over David Almond	4.5	2 reads
The true tale of the monster Billy Dean, telt by hisself David Almond	0	1 read
El salvaje	0	0 reads
The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean David Almond	0	0 reads
Kit's wilderness David Almond	0	0 reads
Slog's dad David Almond	0	0 reads
Heaven Eyes David Almond	3	1 read
Secret Heart David Almond	4	1 read
The Colour of the Sun David Almond	0	0 reads
The Fire Eaters David Almond	0	1 read
My Dad's a Birdman David Almond Polly Dunbar	0	1 read
Bone Music David Almond	3	1 read
Bone Music: A gripping book of hope and joy David Almond	5	1 read
Paper Boat Paper Bird David Almond	0	0 reads
Colour Of The Sun David Almond	3	1 read
Jackdaw Summer David Almond	2	1 read
The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas David Almond	0	1 read
The Tale of Angelino Brown David Almond	0	1 read
Click David Almond	0	0 reads
Der Junge, der mit den Piranhas schwamm David Almond	0	0 reads
Lehmann oder Die Versuchung David Almond	0	0 reads
Zwischen gestern und morgen David Almond	0	0 reads
The boy who swam with piranhas David Almond	0	0 reads
Counting Stars David Almond	0	0 reads
The Fire-Eaters David Almond	0	0 reads
Alas para un corazón David Almond	0	0 reads
Imprégnation David Almond	0	0 reads
Annie Lumsden, the Girl from the Sea David Almond	0	0 reads
Joe's dog David Almond	0	0 reads
Raven summer David Almond	0	0 reads
Slog's dad David Almond	0	0 reads
Klaus Vogel and the bad lads David Almond	0	0 reads
Harry Miller's Run David Almond	0	0 reads
Kate, the cat and the moon David Almond	0	0 reads
Joe Quinn's Poltergeist David Almond	0	0 reads
Counting stars David Almond	0	0 reads
Two Plays David Almond	0	0 reads
Mina David Almond	0	0 reads
Ein finsterheller Tag David Almond Alexandra Ernst (Translator)	0	0 reads
Eine Ecke vom Paradies David Almond	0	0 reads
The boy who climbed into the moon David Almond	0	0 reads
Heaven David Almond	0	0 reads
Feuerschlucker David Almond Ulli Günther	0	0 reads