My Name is Mina

A wonderful book. It is joyous. Thank you, David Almond; I cannot remember when a book filled me with such claminosity

Marcus Sedgewick ― Guardian.co.uk

A skillful, affecting and impassioned book. 

The Times

A celebration of the richness of the everyday world and to read it is to feel uplifted. 

The Sunday Times

A pitch-perfect prequel to Skellig. A gloriously rich, multi-layered novel. 

Ham & High

A poignant, heart-warming novel fuelled by Almond’s generosity of spirit and his endorsement of childhood’s individuality and quirkiness. 

Books for Keeps

A sensational meditation on creativity and the power of words. A must for any budding writer. 

The Daily Telegraph

Almond’s chatty, informal and unique writing is different from anything you have read by him before. 

Newcastle Upon Tyne Evening Chronicle

Almond promotes and celebrates freedom for children and their thinking in this lyrical book about growing up.

The Guardian

A joyous celebration of what it means to be young and alive and enquiring. 

Times Educational Supplement

One of the stand-out novels of the year.

The Bookseller

Intensely moving, this is a profoundly uplifting expression of joy, imagination and consciousness. Absolutely brilliant

The Newcastle Journal

David Almond is a fine writer, one of the very finest we have. He is simply incapable of writing a bad sentence.

Michael Morpurgo