David Almond

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.

A magical story about finding your identity from one of the most acclaimed storytellers of his generation, richly illustrated in full colour by an internationally renowned artist. My mother says that all things can be turned to tales. I thought she meant tales like fish tails, but I was wrong. She meant tales like this, tales that are stories. But this tale of mine is very like a fish tail too... Annie has never been like the other girls. Her mam tried sending her to school when she was small, but Annie couldn’t seem to make words or numbers stick. She prefers instead to be swimming in the sea, or sunbathing on the shore at Stupor Beach, her head full of tales. She should have been a fish, her mam always tells her, and Annie knows the truth of it. Then a stranger who comes to town is struck by the beauty and the wonder of her, and Annie Lumsden realizes that perhaps she really is half a creature from the sea.

A stunning new story from the bestselling, prize-winning David Almond, bringing us the magic that surrounds the everyday. Mina, from the unforgettable Skellig and My Name is Mina, journeys to Japan and discovers another reality that is visible to all of us, if you look closely enough.

Chto, esli odin iz tvoikh odnoklassnikov - robot? Kogda v nachale goda v shkolu privodjat novenkogo, vse dumajut, chto on prosto strannyj. Dzhordzh vedjot sebja ne kak vse. Dzhordzh dumaet ne kak vse. No on umeet igrat v futbol i zhevat chipsy - i etogo dostatochno, chtoby Danni, Maksi i ikh odnoklassniki prinjali ego v kompaniju. Ved on - sovsem kak oni. Ne schitaja togo, chto on robot - multimillionnyj proekt sekretnoj laboratorii - i obrechjon na unichtozhenie. Smogut li novye druzja ego spasti? I mozhno li dat robotu svobodu? Devid Almond, laureat premii Andersena, predlagaet zadumatsja: chto znachit byt chelovekom? No i pokhikhikat chitateli smogut vvolju!

Poetichnyj roman: magicheskij realizm i edinenie s prirodoj. Ot sovremennogo klassika detskoj literatury, laureata premii Kh. K. Andersena. Perevod Olgi Varshaver - laureata premii "Master".

Mama govorit, chto skazok na svete tseloe more. I ja srazu predstavlju more, a v njom pleschutsja skazki-rybki. No mama prosto imeet v vidu, chto skazok mnogo i delat ikh mozhno iz chego ugodno. Anni Lamsden ne pokhozha na drugikh. Mama probovala vodit ejo v shkolu, no bukvy i tsifry ne slushajutsja devochku. Zato ona zdorovo plavaet i tselye dni provodit u morja, na Stuporskom pljazhe. Inogda Anni kazhetsja, chto ej stoilo roditsja ryboj. A vdrug ona i vpravdu ryba? Vo vsjakom sluchae, napolovinu...5 prichin kupit knigu "Anni Lamsden, devochka iz morja":Istorija o mame i trinadtsatiletnej docheri. "S nej chto-to ne tak" - govorili o devochke vrachi, no nikak ne mogli razgadat ejo zagadku;Kniga o tom, kak vazhno videt vokrug skazochnye sjuzhety - oni pomogajut razgadat tajny svoej zhizni, kotorykh ne pojmjosh umom;Istorija o tom, chto vsjo, chto ni sluchaetsja - mozhno obratit v dobro. Tebja pokinul chelovek? Podumaj ne o tom, kakoj on bezotvetstvennyj, a o tom, kakie vazhnye vospominanija on tebe ostavil - i eto dejstvitelno pomozhet;Odinokoe suschestvovanie vdali ot bolshikh gorodov mozhet byt napolneno vnutrennej zhiznju - tvorchestvom, zagadkami, plavaniem i progulkami i - glavnoe - ljubovju;Tekst zhivogo klassika, mastera detskoj literatury Devida Almonda, illjustratsii - znamenitoj italjanskoj khudozhnitsy Beatriche Alemani.

Master storyteller David Almond's whimsical story about freedom, imagination, and daring all but soars off the page, paired with exquisite paintings by Laura Carlin. "Go on. Be happy. Off you fly " A charming tale from a beloved storyteller and award-winning illustrator urges readers of all ages to take chances and find joy. Nanty Solo is new in town and claims she can turn children into birds. Terrified parents forbid the idea, but the children want to fly--they want it very much--and they do. One by one, they approach Nanty Solo. One by one, they are transformed until the sky over town teems with rooks and goldfinches, parakeets and sparrows. The adults take one look and cry, "Get out of that sky this very minute " But the sight of their offspring--set free to soar, hope, and explore--soon has the grown-ups wondering what it might be like to have wings to fly and a beak to sing. The lilting, dreamy tale, told in David Almond's inimitable voice and playfully illustrated, assures us it's never too late to say yes to life.

A stunning new story from the bestselling, prize-winning David Almond, unfolding the magic of the everyday. Mina, from the unforgettable Skellig and My Name is Mina, journeys to Japan and discovers the wonders of the world around her.

“Mam, did you think George was,” I say, “a bit … weird?”“Weird? Yes, I suppose so. But you kids are all a bit weird if you ask me. And to tell the truth, it’d be weird if you weren’t.” When a new boy joins the class, everyone thinks he’s a bit strange, but he’s brilliant at football and loves crisps, and that’s all that matters to Dan and Maxie. However, the truth about George is stranger than anyone could have imagined ... and more sinister, too. Can his new pals help him to become truly free?

Mezhdunarodnoe zhjuri, prisudivshee v 2010 godu Devidu Almondu premiju imeni Andersona - vysshuju nagradu v mire detskoj literatury - argumentirovalo svoj vybor tak: "Almond umeet probudit fantaziju junykh chitatelej, uvlech ikh, podtolknut k chteniju, uchit ikh dumat samostojatelno". Tak i est, mir magicheskogo realizma anglijskogo pisatelja ne ostavljaet ravnodushnymi kak detej, kotorye chuvstvujut pravdu v kazhdom ego slove, tak i vzroslykh, ne razuchivshikhsja mechtat. Erin Lo, Janvi i Mysh - "problemnye deti". Po krajnej mere, tak ikh nazyvajut v prijute "Belyj dvor", gde oni okazalis, ostavshis bez roditelej. Na samodelnom plotu oni uplyli iskat svobodu - prosto plyt po techeniju i zabyt vsjo kak strashnyj son... No nashli koe-chto drugoe. Chernuju Grjaz, prividenija, sokrovischa i... udivitelnuju Neboglazku, chja istorija strannee strannogo. Dlja detej srednego i starshego shkolnogo vozrasta. Perevodchik: Sokolskaja MarijaRedaktor: Oblinova DarjaKhudozhnik: Kabakova Aleksandra

From the bestselling, award-winning David Almond comes a book of hope and joy: under a boundless starry sky, the unforgettable Sylvia Carr finds out what it means to be brave. For readers of Michael Morpurgo and Katherine Rundell, from the author of the beloved Skellig.

From the bestselling, award-winning David Almond comes a book of hope and joy: under a boundless starry sky, the unforgettable Sylvia Carr finds out what it means to be brave. For readers of Michael Morpurgo and Katherine Rundell, from the author of the beloved Skellig. She felt like a ghost. She woke in the night. What was that music? Sylvia has never been so far away. Her mother has brought her to this village, this place of silence and dark, endless forest, and she yearns for the city, the bright lights, her friends, even a phone signal. Late one night she hears the music, a weird jagged spiralling sound. It is played by Gabriel, a troubled, beautiful boy. Gabriel uses the strangest of flutes, a hollow bone. Play it well enough, he says, and you cross the borders between the living and the dead. Sylvia knows she'll follow him into the depths of the forest. But will they ever find their way out again? Praise for David Almond:"A master storyteller." Independent"Spell-binding... impossible to resist... breathless, intoxicating prose. [Almond's] books seem to exist in their own otherworldly universe, outside all the trends in modern publishing, yet resolutely of the now." Glasgow Herald"David Almond's books are strange, unsettling wild things - unfettered by the normal constraints of children's literature. They are, like all great literature, beyond classification." Guardian"[David Almond] is that rare thing - a writer of lucid, mature elegance, who can still see the world through adolescent eyes." Daily Telegraph

Annotatsija Nu i strannyj narod zhivjot v ogromnom neboskrjobe! Naprimer, Mejbl s 29-go etazha vdrug nazyvaet sebja Molli, a ejo brat vse vremja khodit s bumazhnym meshkom na golove. Pudel Klary i vovse uveren, chto umeet letat! No samyj strannyj iz vsekh - malchik Pol iz kvartiry na podvalnom etazhe: Pol schitaet, chto Luna, vovse ne Luna, a dyrka v nebe. Interesno, duratskaja eto ideja ili, naoborot, genialnaja? Pol vzdrognul: vot ono! Nebo! Vsjo kak emu mechtalos v samykh prekrasnykh mechtakh. On prizhalsja litsom i rukami k prokhladnomu steklu. Vsjo sluchilos? On trogaet nebo? Kniga Devida Almonda, laureata premii Andersena, v Britanii rekomendovana dlja chtenija vslukh v nachalnoj shkole. A esli chitat ejo vslukh doma, roditeli tozhe zdorovo poveseljatsja. Feericheskaja istorija o bezumnykh idejakh i neslykhannoj khrabrosti. The Bookseller Children's Buyer's Guide. Khudozhnik: Danbar PolliPerevodchik: Varshaver Olga

Stonigejt - starinnyj shakhterskij gorodok. I khotja vyrabotki davno zakryty, stariki pomnjat o pogibshikh v nikh shakhterakh - v tom chisle i sovsem junykh, ushedshikh iz zhizni v vozraste trinadtsati let. Zdes khodjat legendy, chto prizraki mertvykh detej do sikh por brodjat v zabroshennykh tonneljakh pod zemlej. No uvidet ikh mozhet lish tot, kto sygraet v igru pod nazvaniem "Smert". I odnazhdy Kit Uotson reshaet sdelat eto... Perevodchik: Golovanov EgorRedaktor: Zabelina JaninaKhudozhnik: Ikhsanova Svetlana, Likhachev Vjacheslav