The Hawk’s Well Theatre has just announced details of its first ever Children’s Poet of the Year Competition, entitled The Cat and the Moon. Through the month of May the Hawk’s Well Theatre will be searching for all budding poets aged between 8 and 10 years old. All any …
How cool would it be to appear in a book?! Here’s an opportunity for you to do just that! To celebrate the launch of Merciless Reason, the third book in his Wildenstern Saga, the fantastic Oisín McGann is offering one lucky person the chance to appear as a character in …
Tomorrow morning we will be holding a prize-giving ceremony for the very talented winners of the O’Brien Press Design A Book Cover competition, which we ran during our festival in October last year. We asked you to design a brand new cover for Siobhán Parkinson’s classic, Four Kids, Three Cats, …
Check out this fantastic article by vampire afficionado Darren Shan about Bram Stoker, the Irish author of Dracula. Children’s literature is infested with bloodsucking vampires at the moment, so what better time to pay tribute to the Grandaddy of them all?!
This Friday marks the centenary of Bram Stoker’s …
CBI Director Mags Walsh and children’s book blogger Kim Harte appeared on Ireland AM this morning to discuss the CBI Children’s Book of the Year Awards shortlist. They covered each of the titles on what we think is a really fantastic list, and gave their personal tips for the top …
The wonderful Alexis Deacon will be joining us for our annual conference, Weaving a Shared Story, on the 19th and 20th of May at the National Library, Kildare Street. We are SO excited to hear Alexis speak, especially after reading this inspiring interview with Madelyn Travis on Just Imagine. …
