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 a series for the 8–12 age bracket about Irish sporting legends, beginning with two Gaelic footballers: Cora Staunton and Colm ‘Gooch’ Cooper. The idea was so good I wondered why it had never been done before. If the series had been around when I was a kid, I would have …
Category: Children’s
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 Clare. The …
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, it’s …
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 …
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