The Dam

Kate Greenaway · 2020 · Shortlist

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Kate Greenaway Medal	2020	Shortlist

About This Book

Recognized by the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2020.

About the Author

David AlmondGB

David Almond is a British author of children's and young adult fiction who won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 2010. He is best known for Skellig (1998), a magical realist novel about a boy who discovers a mysterious creature in his garage, which won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award and has become a classic of contemporary children's literature. Almond grew up in Felling-on-Tyne in northeast England, a landscape that deeply informs his work. Read more →