'Deep underground, everyone cuddled in for an evening of stories'.
I couldn't figure out where my little monsters lived, and as so often happens, on a decompression walk up Kinder Scout, among the soft fragrant mosses and tumbling boulders, I came across my answer.
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Talking to a hall of kids in a school today, and one boy asked: ‘Are your kids good at reading or are they normal?’
A question publishing professionals should ask themselves from time to time, I suppose.
It's another BONUS EP 🗣️
Treat your ears to this extra special episode of Here And Back Again, as David O'Callaghan and Children's Books Ireland CEO, @elainajryan, pick out their top 23 reads for kids and teens for the first half of 2023 📚
Attention prospective picturebookers!
Don't miss this opportunity to showcase your work at the Hachette Children's Group virtual open day, 8th June 2023.
Submissions now open, find out more below 👇
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If your morning is in need of chats, craic and some brilliant books for Christmas (always), listen back to CEO Elaina Ryan and host Dave O'Callaghan on today's bonus ep of #HereAndBookAgain!
Good mood guaranteed ▶️
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6D9LmnFSgFDpzt8DJnuJfx...
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Listen to this episode from HERE AND BACK AGAIN on Spotify. We are going rogue this week with a bonus episode of non-streaming content. Having trouble deciding what to buy the small literary child in your life for Christmas? Want to know what's hot out there on the bookshelves? Well, in this bonus episode, we are joined by Elaina Ryan (CEO of Children's Books Ireland) to discuss all of the above. Thanks to Andy Gaffney for producing and thanks to Laura Bryna for letting us use her awesome Christmas tune! U MAY need to slow your podcast speed down, as the excitement of being in a studio with such amazing books, may have caused us to babble continuously and at a speed faster than light! Christmas Tune : Laura Bryna - Wishlist Age 0-4 : Be Wild, Little One – Olivia Hope, illus. by Daniel Egnéus Fox & Son Tailers – Paddy Donnelly The Wilderness – Steve McCarthy Cloud Babies - Chris Judge & Eoin Colfer 3 Billy Goats Gruff – illus. Jon Klassen & story by Mac Barnett Meanwhile Back On Earth – Oliver Jeffers What The Ladybird Heard At Christmas - Julia Donaldson, illus. Lydia Monks The Baddies - Julia Donaldson, illus. Axel Scheffler Well Done, Mommy Penguin – Chris Haughton Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Wooden Eve - illus. by PJ Lynch, story by Robert Frost The Sleep Scan by Niall Breslin, illus. Sheena Dempsey Sir Adam The Brave and The Moody Monsters – David King, illus. by Rhiannon Archard AGE 5-12 : The Chestnut Roaster – Eve McDonnell The Lost Girl King – Catherine Doyle Bunny vs Monkey Machine Mayhem - Jamie Smart Batpig: When Pigs Fly - Rob Harrell The Bedtime Book of Impossible Questions – Isabel Thomas, illus. Aaron Cushley Looking for Emily – Fiona Longmuir Strange Tale of Barnabus Kwerk - Erika McGann illus. Phillip Cullen The Ministry Of Unladylike Activity - Robin Stevens TEEN/YOUNG ADULT : Blood to Poison – Mary Watson Things I Know – Helena Close Five Survive - Holly Jackson Demon in the Wood - Leigh Bardugo illus. Dani Prendergast The Heartstopper Yearbook - Alice Oseman GIFT : The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories - various, illus. Sarah McIntyre The Magic of the Ballet - Vivian French, illus. Lauren O’Hara The Grumpus - Alex T. Smith Girls Who Slay Monsters - Ellen Ryan illus. Shona Shirley MacDonald Creature : Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections - Shaun Tan The Great Irish History Book by Myles Dungan, illus. Alan Dunne
Some quick sketches while I'm thinking about a story.
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Our favourite thing to see – heaps and heaps of #IrishChildrensBooks for Christmas, picked out by the brilliant booksellers of Ireland 🎄
We were delighted to bring them all together for The Sunday Times Ireland this weekend - have a read of the list below!
Bracing myself for the book section of #LateLateToyShow. I have such high hopes every year that it'll be longer, that they'll show more books, that they won't rush through it as if it's a distraction from the toys. Let this be the year that things change.
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Because publishing in Ireland really needed another challenge.
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Thanks to @sheilaoflanagan for reminding me of this one. Harlan Ellison getting pissed off at writers being asked to work for free.
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Aoife Greenham
Oisín McGann
Children's Books Ireland
