# bookelves2021 latelatetoyshow buyleabhargaeilge irishbooks gaeilge latelate bookelves2020 booksforbabies

This gorgeous book features a little girl who loves dinosaurs, how apt!

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2021-11-27

For great childrens fiction featuring wonderful characters and real Irish places, people and history, I recommend Lily series

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2021-11-27

You could try the Isadora Moon books (age 6/7+) which are very sweet friendship and family stories about a girl who is half vampire, half fairy. Really well written and the illustrations are a treat.

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2021-11-27

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Would you like to introduce yourself and tell us your favourite children's book of all time?
I'm Sarah, children's writer, bk event programmer, children's book reviewer and part-time children's bookseller.
I'm going to choose Where the Wild Things Are

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2021-11-27

Part 1 These are new/new-ish, but they're all instant classics: stories of love and folklore by a the dark and brilliant retelling by a pure storytelling delight by and a character of Paddingtonian proportions by

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Mr has had quite the year with four picturebooks published! The Vanishing Lake is my favourite of the four, his first as author/illustrator. It's the charming story of a lake that disappears - based on a real Irish lake. Age 4+

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2021-11-26

Eoinín 📚💚🐑

Is leabhar gleoite cairtchláir é Eoinín ag Futa Fata, scríofa go binn ag Muireann Ní Chíobháin agus maisithe go speisialta ag Róisín Hahessy. Leabhar idirghníomhaíoch cairtchláir don aos óg is babaí nua 🐑📚

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2021-11-26

Weird,perhaps, but I love reading aloud in Irish (Kids arent in Gaelscoil but they tolerate me). are the go-to for bks as-gaelige. New version of an old fairytale Clusa Capaill an Ri is fab. They even have trnsltions of all your kids favourite bks 7/10

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2021-11-26

The are hard at it, recommending great books for the young readers in your life. The Boot series by illustrated by Ben Mantle are great fun for younger readers (6+) who love robots. Lots of gentle humour and great friendship themes too.

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2021-11-25

Another Irish picturebook from 2021 - The Vanishing Lake by
The story of a very special lake that disappears and reappears, a girl and her clever and wise grandfather. Charming illustrations and an original story.

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2021-11-06

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2020-12-04

Books! Michael Collins - one for history lovers age 9+

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If your child likes Roald Dahl or David Walliams try these amazing books.

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If your child loves Roald Dahl there are some amazing Irish books they might also love. How about Boot by or the Onion O'Brien series by Jason Byrne, illustrated by

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I often suggest trying something completely different after HP but wonderful like Wonder in fact! Or how about the Murder Most Unladylike books. Nevermoor for fantasy or Storm Keeper's Island - both terrific and great for this age.

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2020-11-27

While we are waiting for the - the would be happy to give you some personal recommendations for the child or teen in your life.
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If they like Roald Dahl they will love... Boot by Shane Hegarty and They Didn't Teach this in Worm School by Simone Lia

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2020-11-27

I like the odd bit of glitter myself! How about pink sparkles and a bit of goth thrown in for good measure? The Isadora Moon books are great fun!

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2020-11-26

One of my favourite books to gift a new baby is Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury - such a charming rhyming text and the illustrations are sublime. Avail in board book too.

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2020-11-26

If they like Roald Dahl they might like the Danger is Everywhere series by David O'Doherty, illustrated by Chris Judge - very funny! Or the Artemis Fowl series or the Fowl Twins books by or Boot by or the books

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