David Almond
David Almond
David Almond FRSLis a British author who has written several novels for children and young adults from 1998, each one receiving critical acclaim...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth15 May 1951
song bird tree
I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.
children want different
Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
cat owl bats
Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.
angel wings one-day
They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.
two wavering superstitions
My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.
alright
Yes. But sad's alright. Sad's just apart of everything
book discovery cities
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journy of exploration and discovery.
lying rivers joy
We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin and lurch across our lives. There are moments of great joy and magic. The most astounding things can lie waiting as each day dawns, as each page turns.
writing down-and pages
The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.
case children good
It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
rhythms sounds words
The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.
education learning run themes work
Themes around education and learning run through my work.
sleep night gone
Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.
light grandpa matter
Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.