Chris is an award-winning artist, illustrator, and author, known for his bold, colourful style. Chris’s new book is Cloud Babies, is out now. Cloud Babies is a gorgeous picture book, sensitively told by Eoin Colfer and vibrantly brought to life with Chris’s illustrations. It tells the story of Erin, whose favourite game is spotting animals in the clouds with her mam and dad. When she struggles to readjust to home and school after a long hospital stay, her cloud babies …
Author: Aoife Roantree
→Aoife is the manager of Dubray Books Liffey Valley. She loves fantasy, history, natural history, mysteries, picture books (and all the rest really). Reader, tree lover, hobbit...
This week is Irish Book Week, celebrating Irish authors, illustrators, publishers, and bookshops, so we thought we’d celebrate by asking some of the Irish Book Week Ambassadors a couple of …
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I’ve always loved books about tiny people or creatures. I think that some of the attraction might lie in the detailed description of the world, the charm of seeing the …
When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does. – You’ve Got …
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