Earlier this year Dublin Book Festival asked top publishers across Ireland to nominate their choice for the next Irish Book of the Decade. A list of the top ten most nominated books was created and the public voted! The winners have been announced and we are thrilled to have Once upon a Place tie for Continue Reading →
Check out this brilliant new video podcast from the Laureate na nÓg, P.J. Lynch – The Big Picture! In each episode he’ll be showing you how to draw different pictures and talking to different illustrators about how they work. In the first couple of minutes of this episode he talks about our book Once upon a Place, Continue Reading →
Des Kenny was on the Keith Finnegan show on Galway Bay FM last Friday talking about BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS. And guess what? He chose loads of ours! Tune in from 58 mins to hear Des talk books along with our author and all-round brilliant woman Patricia Forde. ‘What prompted this was that earlier on this Continue Reading →
Children’s books are making a splash at this year’s Dublin Book Festival! Not only that, but Little Island are one of the big rocks that are making it (did we carry the metaphor too far?). We’ve got four brilliant events lined up with the festival, two of which are for young readers and two for Continue Reading →
For the first time ever Children’s Books Ireland and Laureate na nÓg will take part in the celebration of music, arts, food, culture and utter madness that is Electric Picnic! Laureate na nÓg Eoin Colfer and a spectacular line-up of authors, illustrators, storytellers and poets will appear in the Literary Tent in the Mindfield arena Continue Reading →
Once upon a Place is a collection of 11 new short stories and 6 new poems by Ireland’s top children’s writers, edited by Laureate na nÓg Eoin Colfer and illustrated by world-renowned artist P.J. Lynch. P.J.’s black-and-white charcoal illustrations are evocative and make for a very lavish book. Each of the stories and poems is Continue Reading →
