Age in David Almond’s Oeuvre

Vanessa Joosen is a full professor of English literature and children’s literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Michelle Anya Anjirbag is an affiliated postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Leander Duthoy is a PhD student at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Lindsey Geybels is a PhD student in children's literature and digital humanities at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.Frauke Pauwels is a postdoctoral researcher, visiting lecturer and co-organiser of the Children’s Literature Summer School at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.Emma-Louise Silva is a postdoctoral researcher and visiting lecturer at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

• Introduction (Vanessa Joosen)1. Counting Stars, discounting years? Life writing and memory studies (Vanessa Joosen)2. Social and material minds through the lens of cognitive narratology in Clay and Bone Music (Emma-Louise Silva)3. "Weird, but lovely": A digital exploration of age in David Almond’s oeuvre (Lindsey Geybels)4. An exploration of reader-response research through My Name is Mina (Leander Duthoy)5. Constructing age transmedially: Framing age in text and on screen in Skellig (Michelle Anya Anjirbag and Frauke Pauwels)6. Eating fire: Close reading David Almond as a crosswriter (Vanessa Joosen)Appendix A: List of 100 most frequent words Appendix B: Scatterplots of character speech Appendix C: Lists of 40 most common verbs, possessions, and adjectives associated with child, adolescent, adult, and old adult characters Appendix D: The interview guide for My Name Is Mina Appendix E: Griet’s and Astrid’s storiesIndex