Book Guides
Little Island’s book guides are tailor-made learning resources to go with all of our books and are available free of charge from this website. We’ve designed our guides for classroom exploration in groups or for individuals, but these guides should also be very helpful for any adult wishing to explore our titles further with young readers – and indeed some young readers may also find them helpful for private study.
Our guides usually include an overview of themes and issues addressed in the book, questions for comprehension and for composition, suggestions for activities and information on our authors. Guides that go with books for younger children tend to be more like activity sheets and may include literary fun such as crosswords and puzzles as well as suggestions for discussion or ideas for book-related projects.
To access the book guide simply click the Download button beneath your chosen book in the list below.
We really hope you enjoy diving deeper into our books! We also welcome your feedback at info@littleisland.ie.
If there is no book guide for a book you’re interested in, that means we just haven’t got around to producing the guide yet. If you would like one that is not yet available, give us a shout and we’ll do our best to create one quickly for you.
The Best Medicine
Big Bad Me
Bumpfizzle the Best on Planet Earth
Chasing the Shy Town
Chop Chop, Mad Cap!
Colour of People
A Dangerous Crossing
Dangerous Games
Declaration of the Rights of Boys and Girls
The Deepest Breath
Dinosaur Pie
An Drúichtín agus an Seilide
The Eternal Return of Clara Hart
The Fox's Tower
The Gone Book
Good Red Herring
Hope against Hope
Hopscotch in the Sky
The Horse, The Stars, and the Road
How to Bake a Sausage Dog
I Am the Wind: Irish Poems for Children Everywhere
Keepsake
Large Mammals, Stick Insects, and Other Social Misfits
Little Big Sister
Mighty Mindsets
Mother Tongue
Mucking About
My Secret Dragon
Name upon Name
Old Friends: The Lost Tales of Fiona Mac Cumhaill
Over the Wall
The Philosophy Resistance Squad
Rocking the System
Star by Star
Slug and the Snail, The
Someone's Been Messing with Reality
Táin, The
Taking Flight
This Ain’t No Video Game, Kid
Trigger
White Lies
Wildlord
The Wordsmith
Wormwood Gate
You Don't See Me