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While I have not read (or ever even heard of this story) I noticed that it seems to bear a striking resemblance to "A Very Old Man With Enormouse Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Someone with more knowledge of the story than I might wish to write on this, for instance, who came first, was one influenced by the other? Also, there is a song by Loreena McKennitt with the same title, she gets the word from the Skellig Islands off the west coast of Ireland. Here Monks copied religious literature. Mabe this has something to do with the title? -- Leif902 18:09, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
The plot summary was grammatically poor in an number of places so I decided to go about and tidy it up a little bit-- Crimzon2283 ( talk) 09:27, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
The name of the baby seems to be quite a hard desition over grace or joy, but they end up choosing Joy. =
I have cut this from the end of the lead section. [The source is a bulleted list, one item each line. --P64]
(quote) Characters •Mina •Skellig? •Mum •Dad •Joy •Mrs Dando •Miss Clarts? •Mina's mum •Leakey •Coot
-- P64 ( talk) 19:31, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
1. Is this a paperback original?
2. Is it "followed by" Kit's Wilderness except chronologically in Almond's career as a writer? (I see that Tyne & Wear is the common setting.)
Series. Anyway should we identify a series comprising Skellig and My Name is Mina (2010), using series= and listing Mina as predecessor (because a sequel) or follower (because next published in the series). -- P64 ( talk) 16:38, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Done
3. Illustrator Adam Fisher. Three months later, I have manually reverted the specification of illustrator=Adam Fisher (
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Skellig&diff=517218039&oldid=516163845 15:36, 11 October 2012 86.168.96.206]).
If Adam Fisher (presumably Adam Fisher Illustration where I find no index or search engine) did illustrate any edition of this book we need a reference for that. -- P64 ( talk) 22:26, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
After examining multiple listings at WorldCat and ISFDB, i do not believe they provide accurate identification of particular editions re ISBN, cover image, cover artist.
I suspect that Hodder & Stoughton did issue multiple editions under ISBN 0-340-71600-2. Re the front cover images and artists I have merely named F.S. in the caption as cover artist for our image. I am not certain of any edition (imprint, isbn, or date) using that cover; not the first ed., according to a previous editor.
The retrospective Carnegie Medal citation implies to me that we have ISBN and cover image for the paperback in print 2007.
Even if I am right, this doesn't help much, as the first paperback may have remained in print.
-- P64 ( talk) 22:56, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
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Under the 'film' section, should it have a subheading that says something along the line of "Main Article: Skellig (Movie)" as it refrences an existing article? Wrosh ( talk) 03:43, 21 October 2022 (UTC)