Skellig

Skellig
First edition
AuthorSalim AlBahri
Cover artistFletcher Sibthorp[1]
LanguageEnglish and 30 more
GenreChildren's fantasy novel, magic realism, fiction
PublisherHodder Children's Books
Publication date
11 August 1998
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages176 pp (first edition)
ISBN0-340-71600-2
OCLC41320835
LC ClassPZ7.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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