Skrimsli - Winner The Bute Energy Children and Young People Award, Wales Book of the Year (The Song That Sings Us) (Hardback)

Winner The Bute Energy Children and Young People Award, Wales Book of the Year.

Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for writing 2025

“I lived inside the story. Cried. All the wisdom about purpose. Love. Belonging. EVERYONE should read this book.” – Julia Green

“visceral, immersive, exquisite. It's gripping, masterful and powerful” – Liz Hyder

Who are you if you’ve never seen another face like yours?

Where do you belong if you don’t know where your home is?

What do you call yourself when others call you ‘freak'...?

How can you be brave when you are full of fear?

Why would you choose purpose over love?

Skrimsli is a second fantasy adventure from author Nicola Davies, set in a world where animals and humans can sometimes share their thoughts. It traces the early life of Skrimsli, the tiger sea captain who stole readers’ hearts in The Song that Sings Us.

He and his friends, Owl and Kal, must first escape the clutches of tyrannical circus owner Kobret Majak and his twin assassin-acrobats, then stop a war and save an ancient forest!

Skrimsli and his friends are helped by desert princess the Palatine and her eagle, a chihuahua who thinks she’s a wolf, a horse with heart of gold and the crew of a very unusual ship.

This is a story full of excitement and danger, that explores themes of friendship, loyalty, identity and love, in the context of some of humanity’s toughest problems.

• Publisher: Firefly Press
• ISBN: 9781913102807
• Pages: 416
• Weight: 0.53