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Actually, it’s been too hot for effective blogging, and I’ve been spending my time reading Skellig, which is one of the books I will be teaching next year, and half-watching the Open golf.
Mystery Tracks « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2006
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Simm also is filming a television series "Seven Days" that is slated for 2012, and the film "Skellig," based on the David Almond book, according to Internet Movie Database.
Airlock Alpha 2008
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My first book for young people, Skellig, was published in 1998.
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My Name is Mina introduces the themes and settings of Skellig through Mina's visit to the empty house she has inherited, where owls fly at night, and her exploration of the "Underworld", the abandoned mine in her local park (a section that evokes another favourite David Almond novel, Kit's Wilderness).
My Name is Mina by David Almond Geraldine Brennan 2010
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Since Skellig, I've written several more children's novels: Kit's
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My stage adaptation of Skellig was produced at The Young Vic in 2003, alongside my play for younger children, My
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My Name is Mina is a prequel to Almond's first novel, Skellig, published in 1998, but is also a standalone exploration of a child's relationship with language, ideas and living things, as expressed through the journal of a nine-year-old girl.
My Name is Mina by David Almond Geraldine Brennan 2010
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Some readers might discover My Name is Mina before Skellig, the story of a lonely boy called Michael and the ancient creature he finds squatting in his family's garage.
My Name is Mina by David Almond Geraldine Brennan 2010
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Skellig himself, who might be a tramp or an angel, does not appear in Mina's story but we see the garage, the empty house it belongs to and the family who come to live there through her eyes as she keeps watch from her tree in the garden next door.
My Name is Mina by David Almond Geraldine Brennan 2010
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A prequel to the award-winning Skellig tells the tale of a bright but lonely girl making sense of the world around her
My Name is Mina by David Almond Geraldine Brennan 2010
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