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Kit's Wilderness is a children's novel by David Almond, published by Hodder Children's Books in 1999. It is set in a fictional English town in the northeast of the country and was based on the former coal-mining towns the author knew as a child growing up in Tyne and Wear . [2]
May 20, 1999 · Kit's Wilderness. David Almond. 3.70. 3,877 ratings461 reviews. The Printz Award–winning classic gets a new look. The Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old coal-mining town, to care for Kit’s recently widowed grandfather.
Kit’s Wilderness is a 1999 children’s book from British author David Almond. It tells a magic-tinged story of a young boy who moves to a former coal-mining town, his ailing grandfather, and the strange games the children of the town play.
The Kit’s Wilderness Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
The Printz Award–winning classic gets a new look. Written in haunting, lyrical prose, Kit’s Wilderness examines the bonds of family from one generation to the next, and explores how meaning and beauty can be revealed from the depths of darkness.
Where the coal mine used to be there is now a wilderness. Here Kit meets Askew, a surly and threatening figure who masterminds the game called Death, a frightening ritual of hypnotism; and Kit makes friends with Allie, the clever school troublemaker.
Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past
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