Eve McDonnell

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Children’s writer & artist 💫 Mama to best twins. Wonderlarker. ELSETIME 🪶 (2020) & THE CHESTNUT ROASTER 🌰(2022) by Everything With Words
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Eve McDonnellMay 26, 2023

Wow!!! The Week Junior Book Award shortlist is out and #TheChestnutRoaster is there for Cover of the Year!
PLEASE VOTE for it!!! 🙏🤗 https://www.theweekjuniorbookawards.co.uk/
I count my lucky stars every time I look at its design by the amazing Holly Ovenden 🧡

#Books #bookstodon #kidlit #Design #bookcovers #MG

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The Week Junior Book Awards celebrates the brilliant world of children’s books and the talented people who create them. It honours the authors, illustrators and publishers who inspire children to read for pleasure, with an emphasis on original ideas, outstanding illustration and smart storytelling, as well as new and diverse talent.

Eve McDonnellJan 18, 2023
Niamh GarveyJan 18, 2023
Book Cover Reveal! So excited to show the world my book, coming March 21st! #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticAdult
Eve McDonnellJan 9, 2023

Hello! If you enjoy children’s book covers and have 10 seconds free, I’d jump for joy if you could give Holly Ovenden’s amazing cover of #TheChestnutRoaster a vote in Mr Ripley’s Book Cover Competition! Feast your eyes on all the gorgeous designs! 🎨📚 Please share! 🤗

https://www.mrripleysenchantedbooks.com/2023/01/mr-ripleys-enchanted-books-childrens.html?m=1

#BookCovers #Illustration #Design #Kidlit #ChildrensBooks #Bookstadon #Books #MG #MiddleGrade #VOTE #Competition

Mr. Ripley's Enchanted Books - Children's Favourite Book Cover Competition - THE GRAND FINAL 2022/2023

A blog about books and reading, the enjoyment of a good story. A place you can find children's and young adult litreature reviews, news and giveaways.

Eve McDonnellJan 6, 2023

On this night, 95yrs ago, The Great Flood of London happened. 14 souls lost their lives when snowmelt water met with a ferocious storm surge outside the Tate Britain. Little was written about it, so I wrote #Elsetime. Read more about the real flood here: https://startsomewhereblogbyeve.wordpress.com/2021/01/06/the-night-of-the-6th-january-1928/

#London #History #bookstodon #Thames #Mudlarking

The Night of the 6th January, 1928

Eve McDonnell
Eve McDonnellDec 4, 2022

Someone pinch me! THE CHESTNUT ROASTER IS ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S BEST BOOKS OF YEAR! 😃😭

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/04/the-best-childrens-books-of-2022

#ChildrensBooks #Kidlit #MG #MiddleGrade #Paris

The best children’s books of 2022

From a four-legged celebration of the seasons to a fiery tale of women who turn into dragons, our critics look back over the year and pick their favourite titles for children and young adults

The Guardian
Eve McDonnellNov 30, 2022

🕛 Closing TONIGHT!

Calling all unpublished children’s writers! 👋 Drop what you are doing and get your entry in to The Bath Children’s Novel Award now! It set a magical ball rolling for me and was such an exciting experience! Do it! Do it! #BNAKids #ChildrensWriters #ChildrensBooks #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Kidlit
👇👇👇👇👇

https://bathnovelaward.co.uk/childrens-novel-award/

The Bath Children's Novel Award

The Bath Children’s Novel Award is an annual international prize for emerging novelists writing for children or teens. Recipients include Matthew Fox for The Sky Over Rebecca; Struan Murray for Orphans of the Tide and Lucy Van Smit for The Hurting.

The Bath Novel Awards
Eve McDonnellNov 22, 2022
RustyBertrandNov 17, 2022
"You up?"
4th century, BC
Eve McDonnellNov 21, 2022
Dara McAnultyNov 21, 2022

Posting a serene sunrise on the River Cam this morning as my first post!

I have no idea how to navigate this place, but I’ll give it a go! Thanks for joining me here where I will post photos of Cambridge uni life , the natural world and occasionally, news about my books 🌿

Eve McDonnellNov 21, 2022
Gutter BookshopNov 5, 2022
Trying a little #bookshops tag to see who I can find... if you're a bookshop (?) or bookshop-adjacent please reveal yourselves! #newstarts #newfollowers
Eve McDonnellNov 21, 2022

'In addition to being a writer, one of the hats I wear is that of wonderlarker...'

Wondering what that is? 🤔 Read my interview with Reading Zone to find out and learn more about their #BookOfTheDay, #TheChestnutRoaster, too!

https://www.readingzone.com/authors/eve-mcdonnell/

#KidLit #ChildrensBooks #MG #MiddleGrade #booktodon #Wonderlarking #WritingCommunity #Books

ReadingZone

The Chestnut Roaster, Eve's latest novel, is set in Paris at a time when the Eiffel Tower was being built, and there was still magic in the air...

ReadingZone