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.
two wavering superstitions
My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.
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.
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.
father thinking able
Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.
book differences making-a-difference
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.
light our-world joy
This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.