In this book the main character is a boy called Michael. Michael has just moved into a new house and has a huge surprise when he finds a crippled living being in his new but crumbling 'garage'. He ...

'I began to discover a way to expose the extraordinariness in ordinary things ... After that, it was as if Skellig had been waiting' David Almond had just posted a collection of stories to his ...

Off the coast of Co Kerry, two jagged islands rise out of the Atlantic Ocean - ruggedly beautiful with centuries of history hewn into their very rock. These are the Skelligs – Skellig Michael and ...

Joint Editor of 'The Book of the Skelligs’ John Crowley, UCC, (left), with Catherine Evans, Fexco, with Founder of Fexco Prof Brian McCarthy (Main Sponsor), Photographer Valerie O’Sullivan, and Joint ...

Library authorities in Gateshead are to give away 1,500 copies of David Almond's Skellig to their book groups as part of a Great North East Read project with a "bookcrossing" element. Book group ...

Skellig Michael, a small, uninhabited, rocky island eight miles from the small Kerry fishing town of Portmagee, received worldwide attention after featuring as the planet Ahch-To in both "Star Wars ...

Artist Tom de Freston is illustrating David Almond’s classic book Skellig for a 25th anniversary hardback edition, to be published in August 2023 by Hachette Children’s Group. First published in 1998, ...

IT has sparked children’s imaginations from the pages of a book, and tomorrow it will hit our screens. Skellig, a story about a young boy who finds a strange creature in his garage, is premiered on ...

An author who has, for years, travelled to some of the most remote and inaccessible places of pilgrimage in Britain and Ireland has included an account of an eventful trip to Skellig Michael in his ...

I found him in the garage on a Sunday afternoon,” is the opening sentence of David Almond’s Skellig, an opening gambit destined to sit in the collective memory along with the first lines of Alice in ...