Mina is also bullied by other children, obviously. Instead of encouraging her to learn her own way, she is sometimes even bullied by her teacher (or at least that is the way she feels when she is called on by the teacher). But she is seen by her teacher and school as a disturbance. But what is "normality" I may ask? Mina is different from other children, she has a very personal vision of education and culture and she is eager to learn. I found that the main theme of the book is about being normal versus being considered as not normal. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award. In this stunning book, David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig, in what is a thought-provoking and extraordinary prequel to his best-selling debut novel, Skellig - winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? And so Mina writes and writes in her notebook, and through her stories, thoughts, lessons and dreams, Mina's journal and mind grow into something extraordinary. I’ll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does.
Then what shall I write? I can’t just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I open the book and write the very first words: My name is Mina and I love the night. I keep on saying that I’ll write a journal. There’s an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight.
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