Happy Birthday to David Almond who was born on 15th May, 1951. He is a great author and had won many awards throughout his career in writing books. If you never read any books by him yet, I think you should put them in your list!
The dream team of David Almond and Dave McKean bring us a complete story set in an incomplete world. The gods have created a world - they've built mountains, a sea and a sky - and now their days are filled with long naps in the clouds. That's until Harry, Sue and little Ben begin to fill the gasp of the world: with a mousy thing, a chirpy thing and a twisty legless thing. As the children's ideas take shape, the power of their visions proves to be greater than they, or the gods, could ever imagined. This graphic novel book is rated 3.65 in the
Goodreads website.
In this book, David Almond bring us a joyfully life-affirming and fabulously fishy tale about one boy's journey from anguish to joy. Stanley Potts is just an ordinary boy and he is brought by his untie and uncle after his parents died, but when all the jobs in Fish Quay disappear, his Uncle Ernie develops an extraordinary fascination with canning fish. Suddenly their home is filled with the sound of clanging machinery and the stench of mackerel, and Uncle Ernie's obsession reaches such heights that he would even can Stan's beloved goldfish! Stan, however, has his own destiny, which leads him to Pancho Pirelli, the blue-caped madman who swims with piranhas. And as Stan delves into the waters, he finally discovers who he really can be. This book is mostly aimed a young children, from range of 8-12.
This book listed in Carnegie Medal Nominee (2009) award. Written in the third person, this book tells the story of Lizzie and her father. Lizzie and Dad live in a rainy town in the north of England. It's just two of them, and Auntie Doreen, who pops around to check Lizzie's spellings and tell Dad he's daft. But today there's something unusual going on: why is Dad building himself a pair of wings and studying the birds to see how they fly? This book is suitable for the range age of 6-12.
It is a story of first love. A love that draws on ancient and mythic forces. A love that leads Ella, Orpheus and Claire to the gates of death and beyond. This book had won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 2015.
