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I LOVE picture books and by is EVERYTHING a picture book should be - warm, enchanting, a wee bit funny. And it's based on a real place that I actually know - yes there is a REAL vanishing lake!! Magic!

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2021-12-03

Some beautifully written Irish fantasy books for age 9+ - all full of wonder, mystery and adventure. With some cracking characters too!
Elsetime by
The Storm Keeper's Island by
The Eye of the North by

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2021-12-02

Is Paddy Donnelly the hardest working person in children's books? This year he's published a whopping 4 picturebooks + Hom has been nominated for a Kate Greenaway Award for illustration.
Here they are - 3 he illustrated plus he wrote+illustrated The Vanishing Lake.

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2021-12-02

UINSEANN DONN le
Béar cantalach é Uinseann Donn. Ní maith leis ceol ná damhsa. Ní maith leis rud ar bith ach dul a chodladh don gheimhreadh. Ansin bhí cuairteoir aige. Scéal spraoiúil is spéisiúil. Is aoibhinn linn é!

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2021-12-02

King Baby by Kate Benton is hilarious and perfect for kids who like funny
The story of a baby who is in charge and has a lot of demands, with strong, stylish illustrations. Age 3+ (and new parents!).

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2021-12-01

Tomorrow it's @
I can't wait to recommend some of my favourite picturebooks and baby books! This beauty is one I gift to a lot of new babies - Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury. It's adorable.👶

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2021-12-01

I've been waiting for today's theme to mention this wonderful book. So close to my heart, the original idea came from an argument overheard on
and the rest is history!
Written by the amazing
Art by Karin Littlewood

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2021-11-30

An oldie but a goodie and one of my all-time favourites by


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2021-11-29

Missed the theme yesterday but there's NEVER a wrong day for picturebooks - now doesn't this look gorgeous!

Story by
Illustrations by

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2021-11-29

I loved this fantasy adventure by the wonderful (cover by our own )

Utterly is a terrific character and it's beautifully written and richly plotted - a real treat for fantasy readers of age 10+.

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2021-11-28

One of my absolute favs for is THE PRINCE AND THE DRESSMAKER 12-15 follows a prince in 19th century Paris who likes to dress as Lady Crystallia and his dressmaker. Their friendship is everything. ❤️❤️📚

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2021-11-27

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

Calling the
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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2021-11-27

Hold on tight for my recommendations - we're off to the circus!

❤️SKYBORN by is perfect for readers aged 8-12 who love heartfelt magic and adventure

💙FLYING TIPS FOR FLIGHTLESS BIRDS by is a delightfully quirky teen romcom

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2021-11-26

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