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{{Short description|1998 children's novel by David Almond}}
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| name          = Skellig 
| image         = File:Skellig cover.jpg
| caption       = First edition
| author        = [[David Almond]]
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| cover_artist  = [[Fletcher Sibthorp]]<ref name=isfdb/>
| country       = United Kingdom
| language      = English and 30 more
| genre         = [[Children's literature|Children's]] [[fantasy novel]], [[magic realism]], [[fiction]]
| publisher     = [[Hodder Headline|Hodder Children's Books]]
| pub_date      = 11 August 1998
| media_type    = Print (paperback) <!-- paperback original? -->
| pages         = 176 pp (first edition) <!--WorldCat -->
| isbn          = 0-340-71600-2 
| oclc          = 41320835
| congress      = PZ7.A448 Sk 1999<ref name=LCC>
[https://web.archive.org/web/20151018123959/http://lccn.loc.gov/98023121 "Skellig"] (first U.S. edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 14 October 2012.</ref>
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'''''Skellig''''' is a [[children's literature|children's novel]] by the British author [[David Almond]], published by Hodder in 1998. It was the [[Whitbread Book Award|Whitbread Children's Book of the Year]] and it won the [[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] from the [[CILIP|Library Association]], recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. In 2007, it placed third in the "Carnegie of Carnegies", after [[Northern Lights (Pullman novel)| ''Northern Lights'']] and ''[[Tom's Midnight Garden]]''.<ref name=medal1998/><ref>{{cite news | last=Pauli|first=Michelle| title=Pullman wins 'Carnegie of Carnegies'| work=[[The Guardian]]|date=June 21, 2007| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jun/21/carnegiemedal2007.awardsandprizes}}</ref> In the U.S., it was a runner up for the [[Michael L. Printz Award]], which recognises one work of young adult fiction annually. Since publication, it has also been adapted into a play, an opera, and a [[Skellig (film)|film]]. In December of 2011, a prequel, ''[[My Name is Mina]]'' was published. [[William Blake]]'s poems feature in the book, the play and the film.

Delacorte Press published the first US edition in 1999.<ref name=LCC/><ref name=worldcat/>