The Colour of the Sun

Aleksandr Malyshev — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 18:19:35 +0000

«The day is long, the world is wide, you’re young and free.»One hot summer morning, Davie steps boldly out of his front door. The world he enters is very familiar — the little Tyneside town that has always been his home — but as the day passes, it becomes ever more mysterious.A boy has been killed, and Davie thinks he might know who is responsible. He turns away from the gossip and excitement and sets off roaming towards the sunlit hills above the town.As the day goes on, the real and the imaginary start to merge, and Davie knows that neither he nor his world will ever be the same again.This an outstanding novel full of warmth and light, from a multi-award-winning author. David Almond says: ‘I guess it embodies my constant astonishment at being alive in this beautiful, weird, extraordinary world.’

Paper Boat, Paper Bird

Aleksandr Malyshev — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 09:38:43 +0000

This wonderful tale transports Mina to Kyoto, Japan, an entirely new and different cultural landscape, where she encounters the magic of origami and an older magic, too. She accepts an origami paper boat from a woman on the bus. ‘Ko-ni-chi-wa,’ says the woman, ‘Take it.’ And then, ‘Float it.’Mina watches as the woman’s fingers fold another elaborate paper form: creased, tugged and teased into the shape of a paper bird. She imagines what it would be like to be a sheet of paper in the woman’s hands, to become a paper Mina. The crowds around her disappear and Kyoto is gone.This is a beautiful story from one of the masters of magical realism, David Almond, with stunning illustrations from Kirsti Beautyman.

Almond David — Knigausa Bookstore: Russian Books

The Colour of the Sun

Paper Boat, Paper Bird