When Helen Carr of O’Brien Press approached me to write a book in a new children’s series called Great Irish Sports Stars, I was incredibly excited. It was to be …
Category: Children’s Books
If you’re anything like me, you must be very excited about all the witchy Irish YA books that 2019 has brought. But with so many tempting choices, where to begin? …
Parents often think that their baby needs to be upright and grabbing things before they can have a book of their very own. But it’s not true — you are …
In my first YA Hits of 2019 post I wrote about two excellent debuts. In this post, I welcome the return of one of the most-loved authors in YA, Cassandra …
It is no secret that we care deeply about teen and YA books at Dubray, and love to talk about our favourites. Our Teen Book of the Month highlights many …
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” —Emilie Buchwald I love The Gruffalo as much as my little one, but once you can recite it from memory, …
If I were to rate We Are Blood and Thunder on a baked-goods-scale, ranging from a stale cracker all the way up to a salt caramel dark chocolate torte, I …