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Island

A life-changing story, now brilliantly illustrated
By David Almond
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In Island by David Almond, a young boy named Louis travels with his family to a small Greek island. The trip is intended to be a family holiday, but it quickly turns into a journey of self-discovery for Louis. He encounters an enigmatic girl named Pan, who challenges his perceptions and opens his eyes to the complexities of human nature, freedom, and belonging.
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Island

Love, death, hope ... the island will change their lives forever. From the bestselling David Almond, author of SKELLIG, and now with fantastic illustrations by the award-winning David Litchfield.

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Love, death, hope ... the island will change their lives forever. From the bestselling David Almond, author of Skellig, and now with fantastic illustrations by the award-winning David Litchfield.

Louise has travelled with her father to the island every year since she can remember - it's the place her mother loved best of all.

The arrival of Hassan changes everything. Louise is restless and yearning for independence; meanwhile, the fiercely free and self-reliant Hassan seems to know the island from long ago as if it were his home from birth.

Hassan is an acrobat, maybe a sorcerer, possibly a source of great danger. The wild boys who call the island their home want to cast him out.

The forces of love, death and hope move Louise and Hassan together. The island will change their lives forever.

David Almond is the author of many beloved and prize-winning books for children and teenagers. His best known work, Skellig, won the Whitbread Children's Award and the Carnegie Medal and has been widely adapted for stage and screen. He has also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world's most prestigious prize for children's authors. In 2021, David was awarded an OBE for services to literature.

'There really is nobody quite like Almond writing in children's or adult's fiction today.' The Times

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781444954180

Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 22 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Hodder Children's Books

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by David Litchfield
  • Read by Hannah Barrie
  • Illustrated by David Litchfield

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 194.0mm

Height: 134.0mm

Weight: 276g

Pages: 160

Collections

Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational David Almond Fiction Young Adult

About the Author

David Almond (Author)

David Almond is the author of Skellig, My Name is Mina, Island, Bone Music and many other novels, stories, picture books, opera librettos, songs and plays. His work is translated into 40 languages, and is widely adapted for stage and screen. His major awards include the Carnegie Medal, two Whitbread Awards, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, the Michael L Printz Award (USA), Le Prix Sorcieres (France), the Nonino International Prize, the James Kruss Prize and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He has also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world's most prestigious prize for children's authors. In 2021, David was awarded an OBE for services to literature.

David speaks at festivals and conferences around the world. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. He is widely regarded as one of the most exciting, inspirational and innovative children's authors writing today. He has one amazing daughter. He lives in Newcastle, the city in which he was born.

www.davidalmond.com

David Litchfield (Illustrator)

David Litchfield first started to draw when he was very young, creating comics for his older brother and sister. Since then his work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, books and on T-shirts. David's first picture book The Bear and the Piano won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. He lives in Bedfordshire.

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