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Wonderful to hear that Connections: Stories by Syrian Families in County Clare has won the Best

Delighted to contribute to Bedtime Stories, a truly magical fundraiser for the home-saving work of […]

One of the best things about lockdown has been cycling. Faster than walking, less jarring […]

The Old English word wundor means ‘marvellous thing, miracle, object of astonishment’. Kerry is full […]

With staycations on the cards and rainclouds in the forecast, books will hopefully be playing […]

The footage of the UK Health Secretary putting his arm around a colleague as he […]

Eva Ibbotson loved them. Enid Blyton confined them to the kitchen. Roald Dahl had it […]

What exactly is creativity? It’s a word that can excite and delight or frighten, depending […]

A huge thank you to the young entrepreneurs of Scoil Naomh Treasa in Bellewstown, County […]

An evening of brilliant down-to-earth inspiration last night at the IBBY Ireland Annual Lecture. Deborah […]

What a wonderful morning at St Andrews School in Lucan. Two fifth class dragons (one […]

Autism: “a mental condition, present from early childhood, characterised by great difficulty in communicating and […]

‘More and more clearly, I came to realise that I must not look backward, but […]

A mixture of speech and silence, words and pictures this week, with the chatter of […]

Two wonderful, wonder-filled sessions with wordless picture books in County Clare this week. Syrian children […]

You’d think that once a book was on the shelves the story inside it would […]

The ancient alchemists should have visited Ireland in October. They’d have given up trying to […]

A great evening of fun, cakes from the recipes at the back of the book […]

Just back from a magical three days full of all things children’s-booky at the biennial […]

There’s a phrase you don’t hear often. In fact, have you ever? While writing My […]