Skellig

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• Skellig

  La presentazione e le recensioni di Skellig, opera di David Almond edita da Salani. Nel garage della nuova casa, Michael scopre qualcosa di magico: una creatura, un po’ uomo un po’ uccello, che sembra avere bisogno di aiuto. Si chiama Skellig e adora ... (read full critics)

  Qlibri published on Sun, 9 Jan 2011

• SKELLIG

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  teenreads published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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  "We thought of Persephone for a while in silence. I imagined her struggling her way towards us. She squeezed through black tunnels. She took wrong turnings, banged her head against the rocks. Sometimes she gave up in despair and she just lay weeping in the pitch darkness. But she struggled on. She w ... (continue)

  "We thought of Persephone for a while in silence. I imagined her struggling her way towards us. She squeezed through black tunnels. She took wrong turnings, banged her head against the rocks. Sometimes she gave up in despair and she just lay weeping in the pitch darkness. But she struggled on. She waded through icy underground stream. She fought through bedrock and clay and iron ore and coal, through fossils of ancient creatures, the skeletons of dinosaurs, the buried remains of ancient cities. She burrowed past the tangled roots of great trees. She was torn and bleeding but she kept telling herself to move onward and upward. She told herself that soon she'd see the light of the sun again and feel the warmth of the world again."

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  Barbara said on Mar 7, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  What a beautiful adventure for children: a story of friendship, anti-conformism, and hope. And, despite what the plot overview made me fear, not religious at all.
  So please, let me believe that Skellig was not an angel.

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  Ficie said on Jun 7, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  I read this sweet and heart touching novel very quickly since the author was so good to catch me in Michael's world. I loved all characters, in particular Mina, the Blake's references and quotes, and the fact that we are not told what and who exactly Skellig is.

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  Tilly said on May 22, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  read in two hours during the most boring string quartet (some lights were on, in the concert hall). not to be recommended for children, even though it won the whitbread children’s book award in 1998. I approached it in a cynical mood, but you must have a heart of stone not to feel touched by this s ... (continue)

  read in two hours during the most boring string quartet (some lights were on, in the concert hall). not to be recommended for children, even though it won the whitbread children’s book award in 1998. I approached it in a cynical mood, but you must have a heart of stone not to feel touched by this story of love under the shadow of death.

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  Elsastella said on Dec 6, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  Frankly speaking, I don't understand why this book won that prize.

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  xYang said on Sep 24, 2008 | Add your feedback

• It's really good. I just wish that I could see Skellig myself

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  angelprincess720 said on Dec 25, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 176 Pages
• Edition: Reissue
• ISBN-10: 0340716002
• ISBN-13: 9780340716007
• Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
• Pub date: Aug 11, 1998
• Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding, Unbound and Others
• In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani

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