 First edition | |
| Author | David Almond |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Fletcher Sibthorp[1] |
| Language | English and 30 more |
| Genre | Children's fantasy novel, magic realism, fiction |
| Publisher | Hodder Children's Books |
Publication date | 11 August 1998 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 176 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 0-340-71600-2 |
| OCLC | 41320835 |
| LC Class | PZ7.A448 Sk 1999[2] |
Skellig is a children's novel by the British author David Almond, published by Hodder in 1998. It was the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and it won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author.[3] In the US it was a runner up for the Michael L. Printz Award, which recognises one work of young adult fiction annually. Since publication, it has also been adapted into a play, an opera, and a film. In 2010, a prequel entitled My Name is Mina was published, written by David Almond himself. William Blake poems are also in the book, the play and the film.
Delacorte Press published the first US edition in 1999.[2][4]
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