Books like my name is mina

Pdf my name is mina download full pdf book download. Ill let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does. Makes the perfect gift for kids ages 35, early learners, and preschool. My name is mina elise echevarria and i am a freelance illustrator from hartford, connecticut. My name is mina skellig hardcover elliott bay book. The name mina is a girls name of german, scottish, polish origin most famous as a dracula victim where mina is short for wilhelmina, mina is an allpurpose name.

A short extract from the book my name is mina youtube. David almonds books reveal the magical moments waiting to be discovered in the course of everyday human experience. As soon as i started, mina as both character and muse leapt into life again. Some of the sections of mina s writing dragged a touch, i found, otherwise this could easily be five stars. Mina lives an ordinary life, yet its the stuff of the gods. This intimate prequel to skellig is built around mina mckee, the curious and brilliant homeschooled child who eventually befriends that books protagonist, michael.

The main characters of this young adult, fiction story are. This book is a fictional journal of a girl about 1214 years old. What do you hope that readers come away with after reading my name is mina. Mina is a name thats been used by parents who are considering baby names for girls. So when she approaches the new boy who has moved in next door and says, hello, my name is mina, its a true act of courage. Not as dark, but just as passionate as almonds previous works, this novel will inspire children. My name is mina paperback pan macmillan south africa. Magic baby names is a unique search site with 99,314 names collected from 2,211,247 family trees, containing 109,183,499 people. Published september 2nd 2010 by hodder childrens books. My name is mina is the prequel to david almonds awardwinning, bestselling and superb first novel, skellig. Mina reminds me a lot of luna, or at least how i imagine luna would have been at mina s age.

My name is mina and skellig dont do much more than pass each other in the street, but this a very lovely book on its own, so i dont care. Oct 11, 2011 my name is mina is not only a pleasure to read, it is an intimate and enlightening look at a character whose open mind and heart have much to teach us about life, love, and the mysteries that surround us. My name is mina is not only a pleasure to read, it is an intimate and enlightening look at a character whose open mind and heart have much to. She revels in nature and loves all flying creatures, especially those like owls and bats that come out at night. I cant just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. While skellig tells the story of a young boys discovery of a decrepit creature, an apparently old man with wings, hiding in his garage, mina s diary just barely touches. David almond, is an award winning writer of children and young persons literature. This book stands very much alone, but the sense of wonder that pervades the smallest details of everyday life remains familiar. My name is mina ebook by david almond 9781444910643. With his first book for young people, skellig, he introduced the title characterperhaps human, perhaps angel, perhaps a mixture of the two. The first edition of the novel was published in september 2nd 2010, and was written by david almond. My name is mina was shortlisted for the 2012 carnegie medal. Rather than chronicling her life in england with her widowed mother to boring infinitum, she decides to let her words murmur and scream and dance and sing. His books are translated into almost forty languages and are widely adapted for stage and screen.

Flickr creative commons asda notebook red wiro bound by michael randall on flickr billingham at night by philip austin on flickr. You probably arent interested in the goingson in my head, but in case. My name is mina is the entries she records in that notebook. Baby names like mina quickly find a baby name you love. One night, she decides to use the blank notebook thats been lying on the table forever.

While my name is mina would work as a stand alone book i think it adds another level to it having read skellig, and to read skellig after reading my name is mina would destroy some of the mystery that is key to skellig. My name is mina skellig by david almond fantastic fiction. Delacorte press, 1999, in which mina was a secondary character, stands on its own. And so mina writes and writes in her notebook, and here is her journal, mina s life in mina s own words. Mina, a budding writer, reveals he this intimate prequel to skellig is built around mina mckee, the curious and brilliant homeschooled child who eventually befriends that books protagonist. If you like books about young people who have trouble fitting in, you might also enjoy deliver us from normal, by kate klise, or anything but typical, by nora raleigh baskin, or stargirl, by jerry spinelli. But forget all that for now, because my name is mina is a wonderful book in its own right. While everyone else is in a deep slumber, she gazes out the window, witness to the moons silvery light. Aug 03, 2014 my name is mina by david almond photos. But forget all that for now, because my name is mina is a wonderful book in its own. Mina mckee is a young girl whose father has died and who lives alone with her mother. My name is mina by david almond books the guardian.

David almond creative, intelligent, nineyearold mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under. The name mina means with gilded helmet and is of english origin. My name is mina by david almond 9780340997253hardback. There were so many quotable lines in this childrens book, that i gave up choosing and took what was on the cover. To try to describe mina in a word would be to fall into the same trap as several characters in the book especially the representatives of the.

I\ll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does. My name is mina is one of the best books i have ever read. I loved the way almond presented the format this book ie. Right now, though, my name is mina really is my favorite. While its dubbed a prequel to almonds first childrens novel, the awardwinning skellig, my name is mina very much stands on its own. Sep 03, 2010 my name is mina is the prequel to david almonds awardwinning, bestselling and superb first novel, skellig. This book seemed to bring me back to my childhood, i really enjoyed it. It is a prequel to skellig and is about mina, a homeschooled girl who lives across the road from the house that michaels family moves into at the beginning of skellig. While everyone else sleeps, she gazes out the window, witness to the moons silvery light. My name is mina david almond from the winner of the whitbread childrens book award the carnegie medal and the 2010 hans christian andersen award comes. Im not even all the way done with this book but i can tell you it is a very magnificent book and i strongly recommend it. My name is mina book central arkansas library system.

David almond has been described as a magic realist, but everything in his novels happens in childrens real lives in the northeast of england. My name is mina moodboosting books books reading well. In this stunning book, david almond revisits mina before she has met michael, before she has met skellig. Mina reminds me a lot of luna, or at least how i imagine luna would have been at minas age. The 300pager is a diarystyle tale a bookworm will polish off in one sitting. Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep. The novel takes the form of a stream of consciousness journal.

It is written in a way that shows us mina s opinions. In the stillness, she can even hear her own heart beating. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 320 pages and is available in hardcover format. My name is mina i have a lot of stuff in common because my name is mina and i like to gaze out the wind o at night it fells like a lone and i can do any thing. Mina loy was a modernist artist and writer who associated with the likes of t. My name is mina has these fantastic extraordinary activities throughout. Titles longlisted for the 2011 guardian childrens book prize. Free download or read online my name is mina pdf epub skellig 0. David almond is the highly acclaimed author of skellig, the savage, clay, my name is mina, my dads a birdman, slogs dad and many other novels, stories and plays.

If you like my name is mina you might like similar books the ransom of dond, the last wild, girl with a white dog, the weight of water, skellig. My name is mina is not only a pleasure to read, it is an intimate and. My name is mina is a 2010 childrens novel by david almond. Its my way of saying, please do read this book, and share it with children you love. The school library journal wrote almond portrays mina as a girl with a great love of words and. My name is mina is not only a pleasure to read, it is an intimate and enlightening look at a character whose open mind and heart have much to teach. David almond is the author of skellig, my name is mina, counting stars, the savage, island, a song for ella grey, the colour of the sun and many other novels, stories, picture books, opera librettos, songs and plays. Such an intriguing story line, character, and structure. Feb 22, 2012 if, like mina, youre not going to have it nurtured in a school setting or special programs, or unlike her, at home, be determined and a bit desperate and brave and find yourself an empty journal to meander your way through.

It is almost more like a set of thoughts and guides to get more out of life, and for that reason i love it. Prime book box, a subscription that delivers editorially handpicked childrens books every 1, 2. Trembling on the edge of selfknowing, mina shares her innermost thoughts and fears, and in doing so she becomes, like skellig and michael, unforgettable and, as mina would say herself extraordinary. This is when mina feels that anything is possible and her imagination is set free. I found new ways of expressing things that really interest me. I absolutely love to cook and my fascination for food started at a young age, too. Childrens books, teens, literature and fiction, parenting and family submitted by. The result is the portrait of a writer as a young girl. So i got on with it, and pretty soon i was able to tell my uk editor, anne mcneil, that the little extra was growing quickly and organically into a whole new book with its own mina ish form. My name is mina is a prequel to almonds first novel, skellig, published in 1998, but is also a standalone exploration of a childs relationship with language, ideas and living things, as expressed. My favorite book by far if your looking for a good book to read you should defiantly read my name is mina. She thinks deeply about evolution and change, as well as beauty.

I hope you would read it this feature is not available right now. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line. As she writes, mina makes discoveries both trivial and profound about herself and her world, her. Mina wishes she could journey to the underworld like orpheus and bring back her father, or make an owlleap into the skies like icarus and fly like the birds she observes from her perch in a tree. Awardwinning author david almond reintroduces readers to the perceptive, sensitive mina before the events of skellig in this lyrical and fantastical work. My name is mina is a wonderful book in its own right, perhaps an even better one than skellig. But you dont need to trawl through long lists of baby names any more. My name is mina isbn 9781444910643 pdf epub david almond.

My name is mina is not only a pleasure to read, it is an intimate and enlightening look at a character whose open mind and heart have much to teach us about life, love, and the mysteries that surround us. Almonds inclusion of concrete poetry, extraordinary activities, and journal entries match mina s character beautifully. Mina is precocious, creative, slightly obstinate and a bit sad. It makes me have deep thoughts about what is being said. My name is mina is the prequel to popular book skellig which focuses on the character mina before she meets micheal.