Books by David Almond
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review 1: This book was so unusual and quirky. The illustrations were a mad but perfect for the story - I love Dave McKean illustrations as he always seems to project the words so brilliantly through his pictures. It was another strange and mesmerizing story from the brilliance that is D...
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review 1: This book was a bit all over the place, and perhaps not knowing the story of Orpheus puts me at a disadvantage for this book. The dialect is very strong and at the beginning it was almost distracting to not really now what these characters were saying. Adjusting to the slang, t...
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review 1: I thought about this book as a boy with a simple life. His life isn't so simple when he leaves his family and works with another family. Then he is on an adventure to go find more gold fish, when on his journey he finds the great Poncho Pirelli and Pancho tells him to meet him at...
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review 1: Fabulous again! Clever tale within a tale that uses a child's voice and hand (including spelling errors). David Almond's psychology is sophisticated and his expression of it so elegant. He is daring with the dark material (hurt, damage & violence) that he chooses to express in ...
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review 1: "My name is Mina" by David Almond is a prequel to his book "Skellig". You can read them in any order. I read "Skellig" first. I enjoyed getting to know Mina more and seeing things from "Skellig" from her point of view. She had some interesting thoughts, and some things made me st...
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review 1: I'm a bit on the fence with this one. I enjoyed the story, but felt that it didn't really go anywhere. I was drawn into the world of Stanley Potts and his unfortunate circumstances, but as the story moved on, I cared less and less about him. I didn't feel for Stan as much as I th...
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review 1: Nothing Bad HappensDavid Almond writes very interesting and memorable books. His children's literature debut, "Skellig", was a low key but compelling meditation on life, friendship, love and having the boldness to spread one's wings and fly. This book touches on the same issues, ...
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review 1: Read this one aloud with my second grader as it was a bit hard for him to tackle on his own. He really enjoyed it (and all of my voice overs). I can't say that I loved the story, but I really appreciated the writer's style. I really liked how he stepped out of the story and talk...
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review 1: I loved this book, and I hope it will find an audience with children and not just children's lit enthusiasts (who are bound to eat it up). Odd and quirky are adjectives that don't quite do it justice ... but there you go. I really enjoyed the narrator's voice, and the way the r...
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review 1: The SavageThis was really a beautiful little book; it’s so short but filled to the brim with emotion and incredibly imagery.This graphic novel is told from the point of view of ‘Blue’. He tells the reader about the short story he wrote (spoiler alert, the story was ‘The Savage’) ...
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review 1: Reviewed for SJSU LIBR 264 Summer 2014When Blue Baker's father dies Blue tries to find comfort through writing. His school counselor tries to encourage Blue to write down his emotions, but Blue finds more comfort in the story of a character he calls "The Savage." In his own way T...
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review 1: "The savage" was a really interesting book even though it was kind of confusing, the reason it was interesting was cause the kid in the story is writing about his problems in school with a bully he writes about what he would do to the bully and it really happens, there is also...
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review 1: Okay, I'll be honest... At first I simply chose this book at random out of David Almond's collection of tales. I never expected it to be like this...It was dark, frightening, sad, magical and just so, so beautuiful. In the format of a 'graphic novel' the experience of 'The Savage...
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review 1: The day Billy Dean wos born wos a day of great destrucshion for his town of Blinkbonny. Kept in secrit and seeing only his butyful yung mam Veronica and, on his rare visits, his daddy, Billy nos little of the world he has been born into. At the age of thirteen when his daddy disa...
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review 1: Before he died, Slog's dad promised his son that he would receive legs in heaven and walk back down to earth to visit him. When Slog tells his friend Davie that his dad has actually returned from heaven, though, Davie has a hard time believing it's true.This title is an illustrat...
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review 1: My Name is Mina, by Cynthia Vogit is unique novel about a 9 year old girl that has a different perspective on life. Her name is Mina. She loves alone with her Mother, her Father passed away when she was little. At school Mina doesn't fit in. The kids call her names, and her teach...
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review 1: Do you like the night? This nonfiction book is about a girl named Mina who loves the night. She loves the night because anything is possible at night. I like the night because the world is asleep and nobody can tell you what to do. At night Mina sees bats, cats, and owls. Thi...
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review 1: This book took me completely by surprise...it was a short, sweet story but it had a lot of depth and it was very well written. The writing style was very unusual, but I loved it and it fit perfectly with the character of Mina. I fell in love with her and her imagination, and with...
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review 1: First of all, I'd like to say that I am reviewing this book because no one seems to love it as much as I do. After I read the library's copy, I went out and bought a personal one. This book has changed my life.Our story opens with Liam. He is in that teenage-progression-stage and...
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review 1: I don't really want to start this review by talking about the phonetic spelling, but it so colors the whole reading experience that I feel I really must get it out of the way.The whole book is written phonetically, and inconsistently phonetically (sometimes one is spelled "won," ...
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review 1: An astonishing book. The narrator, who has been locked away in a room for the first 12 years of his life and remains largely uneducated, writes using invented spelling, which helps set the story within a place of isolation and loneliness. In fact the outer world has been bombed a...
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review 1: A wonderful and magical read. David Almond has not let me down yet, his books are aimed at young adults but they are too good to be missed by anyone who appreciates good writing. David finds so much magic in the world we all live in, his characters are credible and yet sometimes ...
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review 1: Dit boek heb ik gekregen als presentexemplaar van de vertaler, Annelies Jorna, tijdens een workshop over het vertalen van Young Adult-literatuur. Daarom heb ik hem in het Nederlands gelezen in plaats van het Engelse origineel, wat ik bij dit soort boeken normaliter doe. Hoewel he...
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review 1: I AM IN LOVE! There are few things I adore more than falling in love with a new author that I stumbled upon in what could not have been an accident. David Almond is such an author for me. I found Skellig while stuck at the library in a snowstorm and now I am going to devour every...
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review 1: What a joyous, upbeat little children's book this was! Almond's quirky sense of community spirit mixed with a magical sentiment and heartily-drawn characters - on top of great illustrations - makes a very readable little adventure. It's about a boy with strange notions of climbin...