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[ 책 소개 ]
* Michael L. Printz Award 수상작
* Carnegie Medal 수상작
* ALA Notable Children's Book
* New York Times Best Book of the Year 수상작
* Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year 수상작
* School Library Journal Best Book of the Year 수상작
* New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Award 수상작
* Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award 수상작
* Maine Student Book Master List 수상작
* Massachusetts Children's Book Master List 수상작
* New Jersey Garden State Children's Book Award 수상작
조앤 롤링과 더불어 가장 주목받는 청소년 문학 작가 데이비드 알몬드의 영국 카네기상, 휘트브레드 상 수상작으로 전세계 22개국에서 번역서가 출간된 책입니다.
그저 평범한 학생인 주인공 마이클의 가족이 새 집으로 이사오면서 마이클은 당황스럽고 절망적인 상황에 직면하게 됩니다. 갓 태어난 여동생은 아파서 곧 죽을 것만 같고, 새로 이사 온 집은 여기저기 망가진 곳 투성입니다. 그러던 어느 날 정원의 낡은 차고에서 거미줄과 죽은 청파리들이 덕지덕지 달라붙은 채 어둠 속에서 죽어가고 있는 '그'(스켈리그)를 만나게 됩니다. 학교에 다니는 대신 엄마한테서 공부를 배우는 옆집 친구 미나와 함께 스켈리그의 회복을 돕는 과정에서 마이클은 세상의 아름다움을 발견하는 법을 배우게 됩니다.
추리 소설을 읽는 듯한 이야기 구성, 간결하고 짧은 문장, 스피디한 전개가 보이는 작품으로, 독자들로 하여금 모험과 감동의 세계로 빠져들게 합니다.
이 소설은 이미 영화와 TV드라마로도 제작되었으며, 국내에는 "스켈리그"라는 제목의 번역서가 출간되었습니다.
튼튼한 | 닫기x |  What is 하드커버?
양장본이라고도 불리우며, 표지가 단단한 판지로 만들어진 책입니다.
판지를 천이나 가죽으로 감싸기도 합니다. 책의 속지는 일반적으로 중성처리된 종이(Acid-free paper)를 사용해서 잘 변질이 되지 않기 때문에 오랫동안 보관하기에 적합합니다. 이 종류의 책은 더스트 재킷, 또는 더스트 커버로 불리는 표지덮개가 함께 있는 경우가 많습니다. 간혹 내부 속지가 콩기름 코팅이 된 경우 고약한 냄새가 나는 책도 있습니다.
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[ 서지 정보 ]
Hardcover: 208 pages
ISBN-10: 038532653X
ISBN-13: 978-0385326537
책 크기: 21.6 cm x 14.8 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
David Almond’s Printz Honor–winning novel is a captivating modern classic.
Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiderwebs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can confide in is his new friend, Mina. Together they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael’s world changes forever. . . .
Publishers Weekly
British novelist Almond makes a triumphant debut in the field of children's literature with prose that is at once eerie, magical and poignant. Broken down into 46 succinct, eloquent chapters, the story begins in medias res with narrator Michael recounting his discovery of a mysterious stranger living in an old shed on the rundown property the boy's family has just purchased: "He was lying there in the darkness behind the tea chests, in the dust and dirt. It was as if he'd been there forever.... I'd soon begin to see the truth about him, that there'd never been another creature like him in the world." With that first description of Skellig, the author creates a tantalizing tension between the dank and dusty here-and-now and an aura of other-worldliness that permeates the rest of the novel. The magnetism of Skellig's ethereal world grows markedly stronger when Michael, brushing his hand across Skellig's back, detects what appears to be a pair of wings. Soon after Michael's discovery in the shed, he meets his new neighbor, Mina, a home-schooled girl with a passion for William Blake's poetry and an imagination as large as her vast knowledge of birds. Unable to take his mind off Skellig, Michael is temporarily distracted from other pressing concerns about his new surroundings, his gravely ill baby sister and his parents. Determined to nurse Skellig back to health, Michael enlists Mina's help. Besides providing Skellig with more comfortable accommodations and nourishing food, the two children offer him companionship. In response, Skellig undergoes a remarkable metamorphosis that profoundly affects the narrator's (and audience members') first impression of the curious creature, and opens the way to an examination of the subtle line between life and death. The author adroitly interconnects the threads of the story?Michael's difficult adjustment to a new neighborhood, his growing friendship with Mina, the baby's decline?to Skellig, whose history and reason for being are open to readers' interpretations. Although some foreshadowing suggests that Skellig has been sent to Earth on a grim mission, the dark, almost gothic tone of the story brightens dramatically as Michael's loving, life-affirming spirit begins to work miracles.
School Library Journal
Exploring a tumbling-down shed on the property his family has just bought, Michael finds Skellig, an ailing, mysterious being who is suffering from arthritis, but who still relishes Chinese food and brown ale. Michael also meets his neighbor Mina, a homeschooled girl. When she's not trying to open his eyes and ears to the world around him, she is spouting William Blake. As Michael begins nursing Skellig back to health, he realizes that there is something odd about his shoulders. Together, he and Mina move Skellig to a safe place, release the wings they find on his back from his jacket, and look after him until he eventually moves on. Throughout the story, readers share Michael's overriding concern for his infant sister, who is gravely ill. In the end, little Joy comes home from the hospital safe and happy and Michael's life has been greatly enriched by his experiences with her, Skellig, and Mina. The plot is beautifully paced and the characters are drawn with a graceful, careful hand. Mina, for all her smugness, is charmingly wide-eyed over Skellig. Michael is a bruising soccer player but displays a tenderness that is quite touching and very refreshing. Even minor characters are well defined. The plot pivots on the question of what Skellig is. It is a question that will keep readers moving through the book, trying to make sense of the cleverly doled out clues. The beauty here is that there is no answer and readers will be left to wonder and debate, and make up their own minds. A lovingly done, thought-provoking novel.
Library Journal
Two lonely children form a bond when they secretly take on the care of a crusty, otherworldly old man living in a ramshackled garage. A mystical story of love and friendship.
Kirkus Reviews
Almond pens a powerful, atmospheric story: A pall of anxiety hangs over Michael (and his parents) as his prematurely born baby sister fights for her life. The routines of school provide some relief, when Michael can bear to go. His discovery, in a ramshackle outbuilding, of Skellig, a decrepit creature somewhere between an angel and an owl, provides both distraction and rejuvenation; he and strong-minded, homeschooled neighbor Mina nurse Skellig back to health with cod liver pills and selections from a Chinese take-out menu. While delineating characters with brilliant economySkellig's habit of laughing without smiling captures his dour personality perfectlyAlmond adds resonance to the plot with small parallel subplots and enhances his sometimes transcendent prose (`` `Your sister's got a heart of fire,' '' comments a nurse after the baby survives a risky operation) with the poetry of and anecdotes about William Blake. The author creates a mysterious link between Skellig and the infant, then ends with proper symmetry, sending the former, restored, winging away as the latter comes home from the hospital. As in Berlie Doherty's Snake-Stone (1996) or many of Janet Taylor Lisle's novels, the marvelous and the everyday mix in haunting, memorable ways. |
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