Editing Skellig (section)

==Prequel==

Hodder published Almond's 300-page prequel to ''Skellig'' late in 2010, ''My Name is Mina'' ({{ISBN|978-0-340-99725-3}}). It was one of four books on the 2011 [[Guardian Award]] shortlist<ref name=guardian2011>[[Julia Eccleshare|Eccleshare, Julia]] (30 September 2011). [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/30/guardian-childrens-fiction-prize-shortlist "Guardian children's fiction prize: the shortlist"]. ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 11 July 2012.</ref> and one of eight on the 2012 Carnegie shortlist.<ref name=short2012>[http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/2012awards/carnegie_shortlist.php 2012 Awards: Carnegie shortlisted books] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222051027/http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/2012awards/carnegie_shortlist.php |date=22 February 2014 }}. CILIP. Retrieved 12 June 2014.</ref> Both ''The Guardian'' and the Carnegie panel recommend ''Mina'' for readers age nine and up. According to children's book editor [[Julia Eccleshare]], "Almond promotes and celebrates freedom for children and their thinking in this lyrical book about growing up."<ref name=guardian2011/><!-- the shortlist blurb links to much more that may be useful in a Mina article or in the Almond biography -->

Delacorte published the US edition in 2011. According to the summary, "Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother."<ref>
[https://web.archive.org/web/20151018123959/http://lccn.loc.gov/2010040143 "My name is Mina"] (first U.S. edition). LCC record. Retrieved 14 October 2012.</ref><ref>
[http://www.worldcat.org/title/my-name-is-mina/oclc/685120384/editions?start_edition=1&sd=asc&referer=br&se=yr&qt=sort_yr_asc&editionsView=true&fq= "Formats and Editions of My name is Mina"]. WorldCat. Retrieved 14 October 2012.</ref>