For the Children’s Book Festival I met school groups in libraries around Co. Meath. A thing I love about meeting young readers is the surprising angles they take on my work. Often a boy or girl will have paid extraordinarily close attention to a minor character or a fleeting detail. This is always an …

This October Encyclopædia Britannica and Scoilnet are supporting the Children’s Book Festival by running two nationwide competitions for Irish teachers and library members.

Teachers and Schools

Britannica and Scoilnet are appealing to teachers’ creative streaks across Ireland, with a nationwide, interactive competition that is offering a whole range of exciting …

CRYPTOZOOLOGY. What the heck is THAT? I find it’s most often the kids and not the teachers who know the answer to that one!

Last week myself and Vanessa (my heroine, flawed but very adventurous and clever, as opposed to just flawed like me) toured the Meath libraries – Ashbourne, …

On Saturday 8th October, as part of the Children’s Book Festival, I visited the Independent Theatre Workshop in Ranelagh, Dublin to meet their multi-talented pupils and bubbly dedicated staff. I was reading from Tiger Lily – A Heroine for all Seasons and from The Lantern Moon.

The ITW is …

I spent two days during the festival in Meath Libraries which was a pure delight. I did two workshops telling stories and then creating a story with the children using a storyboard.  This was taken away to write the story back in class or at home. This is a workshop …

In the midst of Children’s Book Festival madness, we took some time on Friday the 7th of October to launch Images Beyond Borders, a fantastic new exhibition of illustrations from Irish and Austrian illustrators at the No Grants Gallery in Dublin’s Temple Bar. Laureate na nÓg, Siobhán Parkinson, and …

On the 16th of October it was the 10th anniversary of my first public storytelling show. Up until then, I only did my storytelling for my own children (now all grown up with children of their own), their friends and my nieces and nephews. That first show was held in …

Bridget Bhreathnach anseo, bhí mé i gCo. an Chláir ar an Aoine 14, Deireadh Fómhair i Leabharlann Inis agus i gCill Rois ina dhiaidh sin an lá céanna, ag léamh ó mo leabhar Lúlú agus an Oíche Ghlórach  atá foilsithe ag Futa Fata . Bhí mé ag léamh i leabharlann na Sionainne …

The National Library of Ireland was the location on Friday 14th October for one of our CBF panel discussions, ‘The Worst is Yet to Come, Dystopian Themes in Young Adult Fiction“. On a chilly, rainy (rather apocalyptic) Dublin evening, Irish authors Sarah Rees Brennan (The Demons Lexicon…