Liam and Max, are young teenagers on summer break, playing in Liam’s yard in rural northeastern England. Raven Summer is a gorgeous, heartbreaking story of how families can so easily come together … and just as easily be torn completely apart. With all those signs to prod me, I picked up his latest (in the U.S. And yesterday, I heard he’s coming to NYC as part of the Sixth Annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature Almond will be part of “ A Gathering of Voices” on Thursday, at the Instituto Cervantes, April 29 at 7:00 pm, if anyone going to be in town … Last week at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Almond won what is arguably the world’s top prize in kiddie literature, the Hans Christian Andersen Author Award for 2010 from the International Board on Books for Young People. Apparently, a film version of Skellig is also floating around! And then saw a mention in a random email that Tod Machover had done an opera based on Skellig – wish I’d seen that! Tod was my brother’s longtime advisor at MIT’s Media Lab (bro was on the never-finished 10-year plan). Not him personally (don’t I wish, as he is definitely one of my very favorite writers for young adult titles), but his mega-award-winning name is haunting my emails… I recently saw the latest stage version of his signature title, Skellig, in London. David Almond has been repeatedly popping up in my inbox recently.
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