AuthorDavid Almond
NarratorDavid Almond
Duration3h
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS3
PublisherHodder
VersionAbridged
When Kit moves to Stoneygate, a once thriving mining village haunted by a long-ago tragedy which killed 117 children, he is befriended by the wretched, sullen John Askew, a boy whose very soul has been fractured by his violent upbringing. As Kit's grieving grandfather begins to lose his grip on life, Kit is irresistibly drawn into a treacherous game played for the highest of stakes. Coming face to face with the ghosts of the wilderness, the space between the houses and the river where the ancient mine once flourished, this game ultimately tests his perceptions of life and death.
Author: David Almond
Author David Almond
Narrator Malcolm Hamilton
Duration 4h 38m
David Almond says of this unique collection, "Stories are living things, creatures that move and grow in the imaginations of writer and reader. They must be solid and touchable, like the land, and must have fluid half-known depths, like the sea. These stories take place in a real world - but in fiction, real worlds merge with dream worlds. Real peo...
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Author: David Almond
Author David Almond
Narrator David Almond
Duration 2h 20m
Michael's baby sister is ill, and the whole house is sick with her. While his parents spend time at the hospital, he explores their new home. In the old, derelict garage he finds something sinister: a strange creature, part owl, part angel. Is it something good? Or something evil? Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of...
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The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
Author: David Almond
Author David Almond
Narrator David Almond
Duration 6h 33m
I wos a secrit shy and tungtied emptyheded thing. I wos tort to read and rite and spell by my tenda littl muther & by Mr McCaufrey the butcha & by Missus Malone and her gosts. So I am not cleva, so please forgiv my folts and my mistayks. I am the won that glares into your harts & that prowls insyde yor deepist dremes. Wonce I was The An...
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