Counting Stars (13 page)

Acknowledgments

Some of these stories have been previously published or broadcast as follows:

“Behind the Billboards,”
Northern Stories 7
(Arc Publications). “Buffalo Camel Llama Zebra Ass,”
Edinburgh Review
. “Chickens,”
Sleepless Nights
(Iron Press). “Counting the Stars,”
Northern Stories 6
(Arc Publications); BBC Radio 4. “Jonadab,”
Panurge.
“Loosa Fine,”
London Magazine.
“My Mother’s Photographs,”
The Echo Room Yearbook
; BBC Radio Newcastle. “The Baby,”
Critical Quarterly
. “The Fusilier,”
Iron
. “The Middle of the World,”
Pretext
(EAS Publishing). “The Time Machine,”
The Bridport Prize Anthology
. “Where Your Wings Were,” BBC Radio 4;
A Kind of Heaven
(Iron Press).

The extracts on pages 101 and 102 from
The Third Eye
by T. Lobsang Rampa are used with kind permission from the estate of Sarah Anna Rampa.

Also by David Almond

SKELLIG

KIT’S WILDERNESS

HEAVEN EYES

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Text copyright © 2000 by David Almond

First American Edition 2002

First published in Great Britain by Hodder Children’s Books 2000

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Almond, David.

 Counting stars / David Almond.—1st American ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: In a series of interconnected stories, a boy describes his life

 growing up in the English urban district of Felling

 [1. City and town life—England—Felling. 2. Family life—England—Felling.

3. Felling (England)—Fiction. 4. England—fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.A448 Co 2002

[Fic]—dc21 2001032498

April 2002

eISBN: 978-0-375-89010-9

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