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But as the children's ideas grow bolder, the power of their visions proves greater and more dangerous than they, or the gods, could ever have imagined. They have built mountains, forests, and seas and filled the world with animals, people, and unnamed beasts.

David Almond is the author of Skellig, Bone Music, Island, The Savage, The Tightrope Walkers, A Song for Ella Grey, The Dam, The Colour of the Sun, and many other novels, stories, picture books, opera librettos, songs and plays. The narrative alone is a delight to read aloud but the combination of story with illustrations make this work remarkable. Something that was un-tamable, a nightmare, something that they had no control over…could this be a projection of hurt and suffering or is this what happens when people are given too much power? Dave McKean is a world-renowned artist, designer, and film director who has illustrated several books for children, including Coraline , The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish , and The Wolves in the Walls , all by Neil Gaiman, and two prior titles by David Almond. His major awards include The Carnegie Medal, two Whitbreads, The Michael L Printz Award, Le Prix Sorcieres, The Nonino International Prize, The James Kruss Award and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.

Dave McKean is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician. This was followed by The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas (2012) a children’s book illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, Mouse Bird Snake Wolf (2013) with illustrator Dave McKean, A Song for Ella Grey (2014) and The Tightrope Walker (2014), a novel for young adults, and The Colour of the Sun (2018). I don't want to rate it a 5 because there wasn't enough writing in it so there wasn't enough information. The Gods are happy with their creation, they’ve built the sea, sky, mountains and many other magnificent things to fill the earth…but now they are tired and require sleep.

That's until Harry, Sue and Little Ben begin to fill the gaps of the world: with a mousy thing, a chirpy thing and a twisty legless thing. Mouse Bird Snake Wolf is one of the most beautifully constructed graphic novels I have ever had the opportunity to read.Like all good fables, this one has multiple interpretive possibilities and moral resonances, in addition to being a compelling story in its own right. David Almond’s books are strange, unsettling wild things – unfettered by the normal constraints of children’s literature.

A Guardian reviewer described it "a folktale or creation myth" and wrote, "There is a captivating simplicity about the unshowy language. I like little Ben because he was very understandable about doing those things which were not good for him. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. However Harry and Sue have got eaten by a wolf because they didn't listen to Little Ben's advice not to make the wolf.In my opinion Mouse Bird Snake Wolf is a precious gift to the world – a quick read but one you will never forget. The words and the Illustrations work in harmony with one another and cause this book to have an endearing, breathtaking quality to it – a story that is accessible for all…it’s something very special indeed. A play, Wild Girl, Wild Boy, was published in March 2002, and a stage version of Skellig was published in April 2002 to coincide with the National Theatre’s production of the play.

It was awarded a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Silver Award) and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal (2000) and for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize.

Counting Stars (2000) is a collection of children’s stories, again inspired by the author’s memories of his own childhood and family, and a selection of stories from this volume was published separately in March 2002 under the title Where Your Wings Were, as one of five World Book Day publications. Mouse Bird Snake Wolf has also been reviewed by Booklist, [4] Library Media Connection magazine, [4] The Horn Book Magazine, [4] The School Library Journal, [4] Reading Time, [5] and The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. His children’s novel My Name is Mina (2010), a prequel to Skellig, was nominated for a 2012 Carnegie Medal.

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