Often drawing or sculpting at home, she invites Michael to join in. Mina is home-schooled and enjoys nature, birds, drawing and the poems of William Blake. He meets a girl named Mina from across the road and over the course of the story they become close. Meanwhile, his friends from school become more and more distant as Michael stops attending school and spends less time with them. Michael hears a story that human shoulder blades are a vestige of angel wings. The man is crotchety and arthritic, demanding aspirin, Chinese food menu order numbers 27 and 53 and brown ale. Michael assumes that he is a homeless person, but decides to look after him and gives him food. When Michael goes into the garage, he finds a strange emaciated creature hidden amid all the boxes, debris and dead insects. He and his parents are nervous, as his new baby sister was born earlier than expected and may not live because of a heart condition. Plot ġ0-year-old Michael and his family have recently moved into a house. In 2010, a prequel entitled My Name is Mina was published, written by David Almond himself.ĭelacorte Press published the first US edition in 1999. Since publication, it has also been adapted into a play, an opera, and a film.

Printz Award, which recognises one work of young adult fiction annually.

In the US it was a runner up for the Michael L. 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. Skellig is a children's novel by the British author David Almond, published by Hodder in 1998.

Novel skellig by david almond