Number 3 in the top ten....this is not a drill 😲😊😃🤪🥳🥹 Thank you so much to everyone who made Milly McCarthy and the Sports Day Shambles a bestseller. Illustrated by Karen Harte, published by Gill Books ❤️ Off now to do a little dance and have a little cry.

Discover Irish Children's Books We believe - for so many reasons - that Irish children’s books matter. At every event I asked the teachers to help us. To introduce Irish children’s books into the classroom. To actively encourage children to read Irish children’s books. To talk to them about the writers.

I am looking for new books about writing, creativity and teaching creative writing to read over the summer holidays. Any favourites you can recommend? I'd really appreciate any recommendations. Here are some of my recent favourites: You Are a Story (teens) A Writer's Journal

Today’s the day! We are taking over the Speranza tent at International Literature Festival Dublin for the 2024 KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards. Make sure to follow along for all the latest ! 🧵 #ReadingHeros KPMG Ireland

Teachers 📢📢📢t There's a new teaching guide to The Weather Girls on the The O'Brien Press website (4th to 6th class). If you use it in the classroom I'll hop on a zoom to answer all your students' questions. Free of charge too! Notes free to download here: obrien.ie/asset/26679/1/…

🖋️🖋️🖋️ I'll be back in online creative-writing-teacher mode from mid-Sept to early-Dec. Now I must away and go do Other Things. clairehennessy.com/store/

Psst if you’d like to support a nonbinary author, The Undetectables is £1.99 on kindle right now, 🔗 in bio!

Está volviendo a casa

I'm delighted to reveal the cover for the fourth book in #MillyMcCarthy series. Milly McCarthy and the ChristmasCalamity! Illustrated by the brilliant Karen Harte Publishing on the 10th of October by Gill Books Pre orders are available via the link in my bio & all bookstores.

⭐️Cover reveal⭐️ We are so delighted to share with you the cover for The Faerie Isle: Tales and Traditions of Ireland’s Forgotten Folklore by Síne Quinn, coming out this October on Walker Books . The folklore of Ireland is beloved by children across the world, but the

Palestine flag-bearers at the Paris 2024 Olympics 🇵🇸 24-year-old swimmer Valerie Tarazi, whose family is originally from Gaza. Top medalist at the 2023 Arab Games. 20-year-old Waseem Abu Sal from Ramallah, the first Palestinian boxer to ever compete at the Olympics.

Irish primary school teachers - if you use my book, The Weather Girls as a class novel I will answer any questions the children have on zoom free of charge. If you are interested, get in touch. It's suitable for 4th to 6th class and there are teachers' notes available.

1 MONTH TO GO 🤩 I’m giving #TheLastBoy the best launch party I can & would LOVE to see you – a celebration filled with shooting stars & sooty fingerprints, big wishes, fizzy pop & omg the cake!! 😃 Halfway up the Stairs Preorder links in bio PS Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight! 💫

Lots of amazing new Irish releases here as recommended by Triona Campbell rte.ie/learn/2024/081…

Episode 1 of Derek Landy 's story podcast, The Haunted House on Hollow Hill is fab. I'd recommend it for age 10/11+ as it's spooky and people are murdered (it's set in the world of Skulduggery). Well done, Derek, fantastic listening for story lovers! skulduggerypleasant.co.uk/podcast/

🔭💫🧹🔭💫🧹🔭💫🧹🔭 I can’t begin to describe how emotional I feel today 😭🙌 – #TheLastBoy is finally here! You’ll find soot and stars, science and superstitions, the deepest secrets and the very best boy inside this book... (not to mention a little piece of my heart 💙) 🧵1/5

A bumper September story harvest 🍂Happy book birthday brilliant ones! 🎉 Annelise Gray Eve McDonnell 💫 Alexander Armstrong Tamsin Rosewell chris riddell Gabriel Dylan 🏄‍ Piers Torday Katya Balen Rachel Burge Maz Evans Lisa Williamson Louie Stowell Nicola Baker

What a day! And what a way to remember it - a giant sooty fingerprint filled with the wishes of everyone who came along to the launch of #TheLastBoy 1/4

I see the anti-immigration crowd have blocked O' Connell Bridge in the middle of rush hour and thereby stopped all the immigrants commuting to and from the jobs the protestors are too fucking useless to do.