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Here are some highlights from press coverage of the festival so far: Lead in/ Week 1:
Author/ Vet Susan E Connolly talks about balancing her two work passions in the Evening Herald 10/9/09 (read online)
Food for thought from author Sarah Webb in the
Mary Arrigan discusses top reads for very young readers in the
Sarah Rees Brennan answers some cultural questions in the
Nadine O'Regan previes the festival in the Sunday Business Post 26/9/09 (PDF)
Sarah Rees Brennan tells us about some of her favourite friends in the
CBI, Philip Ardagh and students from Griffeen Valley Educate Together kick-off the festival in style on RTE's News2Day 29/9/09 (video - requires Real Player)
Sarah Webb discusses the festival and her career as a writer with young interviewers on RTE's Kazoo TV 29/9/09 (web video)
Fiona McCann talks festival and favourite children's books on her excellent Pursued by a Bear blog 30/9/09
Tom Donegan and Cliodhna Lyons talk festival, reading habits and 24 Hour Comic Book Day on the City Channel 30/9/09 (video - requires Real Player)
Festival preview and book review on TV3's Ireland AM 1/10/09 (web video)
Sarah Webb (wearing her journalist hat this time!) picks out her festival highlights in the Irish Independant 2/10/09 (read online)
Week 2:
24 Hour Comic Day selected as a 'great day out' in the Irish Independant 3/10/09 (JPG)
News from Cork in two pieces from the Evening Echo 3/10/09 - launch (JPG) and Judi Curtin (JPG) both featured.
Nice overview of the festival plus CBF authors' favourite books in the Irish Post 3/10/09 (JPG)
New CBF competition announced in the Sunday Independant 4/10/09 (PDF)
Sarah Webb continues her media blitz in the Irish Examiner 9/10/09 Week 3:
Philip Ardagh interviewed plus famous faces' favouite childhood reads in the
Celine Kiernan is faces a Q&A grilling from the Sunday Independant 18/10/09 (JPG) |




