Skellig is a novel by David Almond about a boy who finds a decrepit Winged Humanoid living in a dark corner of the garage of the house his family has just moved into. It received the Carnegie Medal in 1998.
In 2009, it was adapted into a TV movie starring Tim Roth as Skellig, Bill Milner (Son of Rambow) as Michael, and John Simm and Kelly Macdonald as Michael's parents.
Tropes used in Skellig include:
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| 1936–1950 |
- 1936: Pigeon Post (Arthur Ransome)
- 1937: The Family from One End Street (Eve Garnett)
- 1938: The Circus Is Coming (Noel Streatfeild)
- 1939: The Radium Woman (Eleanor Doorly)
- 1940: Visitors from London (Kitty Barne)
- 1941: We Couldn't Leave Dinah (Mary Treadgold)
- 1942: The Little Grey Men (BB (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford))
- 1943: No Award
- 1944: The Wind on the Moon (Eric Linklater)
- 1945: No Award
- 1946: The Little White Horse (Elizabeth Goudge)
- 1947: Collected Stories for Children (Walter de la Mare)
- 1948: Sea Change (Richard Armstrong)
- 1949: The Story of Your Home (Agnes Allen)
- 1950: The Lark on the Wing (Elfrida Vipont)
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| 1951–1975 |
- 1951: The Wool-Pack (Cynthia Harnett)
- 1952: The Borrowers (Mary Norton)
- 1953: A Valley Grows Up (Edward Osmond)
- 1954: Knight Crusader (Ronald Welch (Felton Ronald Oliver))
- 1955: The Little Bookroom (Eleanor Farjeon)
- 1956: The Last Battle (C. S. Lewis)
- 1957: A Grass Rope (William Mayne)
- 1958: Tom's Midnight Garden (Philippa Pearce)
- 1959: The Lantern Bearers (Rosemary Sutcliff)
- 1960: The Making of Man (Ian Wolfran Cornwall)
- 1961: A Stranger at Green Knowe (Lucy M. Boston)
- 1962: The Twelve and the Genii (Pauline Clarke)
- 1963: Time of Trial (Hester Burton)
- 1964: Nordy Bank (Sheena Porter)
- 1965: The Grange at High Force (Philip Turner)
- 1966: No Award
- 1967: The Owl Service (Alan Garner)
- 1968: The Moon in the Cloud (Rosemary Harris)
- 1969: The Edge of the Cloud (K. M. Peyton)
- 1970: The God Beneath the Sea (Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen)
- 1971: Josh (Ivan Southall)
- 1972: Watership Down (Richard Adams)
- 1973: The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (Penelope Lively)
- 1974: The Stronghold (Mollie Hunter)
- 1975: The Machine Gunners (Robert Westall)
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| 1976–2000 |
- 1976: Thunder and Lightnings (Jan Mark)
- 1977: The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler (Gene Kemp)
- 1978: The Exeter Blitz (David Rees)
- 1979: Tulku (Peter Dickinson)
- 1980: City of Gold and other stories from the Old Testament (Peter Dickinson)
- 1981: The Scarecrows (Robert Westall)
- 1982: The Haunting (Margaret Mahy)
- 1983: Handles (Jan Mark)
- 1984: The Changeover (Margaret Mahy)
- 1985: Storm (Kevin Crossley-Holland)
- 1986: Granny Was a Buffer Girl (Berlie Doherty)
- 1987: The Ghost Drum (Susan Price)
- 1988: A Pack of Lies (Geraldine McCaughrean)
- 1989: Goggle-Eyes (Anne Fine)
- 1990: Wolf (Gillian Cross)
- 1991: Dear Nobody (Berlie Doherty)
- 1992: Flour Babies (Anne Fine)
- 1993: Stone Cold (Robert Swindells)
- 1994: Whispers in the Graveyard (Theresa Breslin)
- 1995: Northern Lights (Philip Pullman)
- 1996: Junk (Melvin Burgess)
- 1997: River Boy (Tim Bowler)
- 1998: (David Almond)
- 1999: Postcards from No Man's Land (Aidan Chambers)
- 2000: The Other Side of Truth (Beverley Naidoo)
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| 2001–2025 |
- 2001: The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (Terry Pratchett)
- 2002: Ruby Holler (Sharon Creech)
- 2003: A Gathering Light (Jennifer Donnelly)
- 2004: Millions (Frank Cottrell Boyce)
- 2005: Tamar (Mal Peet)
- 2007: Just in Case (Meg Rosoff)
- 2008: Here Lies Arthur (Philip Reeve)
- 2009: Bog Child (Siobhan Dowd)
- 2010: The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)
- 2011: Monsters of Men (Patrick Ness)
- 2012: A Monster Calls (Patrick Ness)
- 2013: Maggot Moon (Sally Gardner)
- 2014: The Bunker Diary (Kevin Brooks)
- 2015: Buffalo Soldier (Tanya Landman)
- 2016: One (Sarah Crossan)
- 2017: Salt to the Sea (Ruta Sepetys)
- 2018: Where the World Ends (Geraldine McCaughrean)
- 2019: The Poet X (Elizabeth Acevedo)
- 2020: Lark (Anthony McGowan)
- 2021: Look Both Ways (Jason Reynolds)
- 2022: October, October (Katya Balen)
- 2023: The Blue Book of Nebo (Manon Steffan Ros)
- 2024: The Boy Lost in the Maze (Joseph Coelho)
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The award date is the year of publication before 2006, the year of presentation after 2006. Thus, there is no entry for 2006. |