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Celebrating Irish Children’s Books | Online School and Family Book Festival. This year we are part of the Dublin Book Festival.

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Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland - Literature

A Hug for You

Nothing warms us up quite like a hug, but what can we do when we can’t be together? This is the story of a new

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A Dublin Christmas

To Orla, Christmas means Gran, so when it looks like Gran won’t make it this year, everything feels a lot less festive. And with Christmas

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Stick Boy

It’s tough fitting in when you’re born to stick out! From the moment Stick Boy and his family move to Little Town, there is way

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Bad Panda

Are you sick of being utterly adorable?Tired of being cuddled and hugged?Fed up of having your head confused for your bottom because you just so

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Mr Spicebag

Be warned, Reader, this book isn’t about a normal spice bag, nor is it about a normal boy. Quite the opposite. This book is about the Spice Bag, and

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Wild Child – A Journey Through Nature

Join brilliant young naturalist Dara McAnulty – winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize for his book Diary of a Young Naturalist – on a nature walk and

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The Vanishing Lake

Something mysterious is happening at Grandad’s lake. There are days the lake is beautiful, shimmering, and full. And then there are other days . .

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Ó Am go hAm

Everyone in Aoife’s house is obsessed with History- everyone except Aoife! She does not understand why her Mother spends all day at the old local

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The Last Seaweed Pie

Written by Wenda Shurety, Illustrated by Paddy Donnelly The Sea-ple live in the ocean and the Tree-ple live in the jungle. When the Tree-ple start

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The Fowl Twins: Get What They Deserve

Twins Myles and Beckett, Artemis Fowl’s younger brothers, return in their third and most outrageous adventure yet. For almost two years, Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye has

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Maybe

A trio of misbehaving, mango-loving monkeys have a close call as the creator of Don’t Worry, Little Crab gives readers a taste of vicarious mischief. Three little

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Lily’s Dream

The further adventures of Lily: life as a maid in Lissadell House is always interesting, but with her friendship with Maeve under strain, a war

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My Little Album of Dublin

Name all the things you can see around Dublin’s fair city! Measure yourself against the Spire on O’Connell Street, spot seals at the seaside, zoom

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Eoinín

Eoinín has a beautiful new kite. But making it fly is a tricky business! Little ones will love helping Eoinín in this fun, interactive adventure.

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Rescuing Titanic

Deep in the dark North Atlantic night, the majestic ocean liner Titanic strikes ice and quickly begins to sink. It radiates out an “S-O-S” distress

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Skulduggery Pleasant: Dead or Alive

Skulduggery, Valkyrie and Omen return in the 14th and penultimate novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series – and their most epic test yet… In a

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My Little Album of Ireland

Name all the things you can see around the Island of Ireland! Discover nature on the Wild Atlantic Way, dig for treasure at Trim Castle,

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The Skulduggery Pleasant Grimoire

An unmissable paraquel to the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, The Skulduggery Pleasant Grimoire is at once a thrilling recap of the books so far, a reference

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A Little Book About Justice

Justice can be a difficult thing to understand, even for a grownup. So give your kid a head start on the conversation and help them

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The Philosophy Resistance Squad

Milo is thrilled to be starting at the country’s fanciest, shiniest, most prestigious school. But it soon becomes clear that something sinister is going on.

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Gairdín Mháire na mBláth

Bronntanas breá samhraidh is ea Gairdín Mháire na mBláth, an saothar is déanaí ó Tatyana Feeney. Scéal aoibhinn cairdis agus comhluadair! Leabhar é seo a

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Look, Puppy!

Hello, puppy! We don’t know where you came from. We don’t know what kind of dog you are. We’ve been waiting and waiting for you

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Big Dance

As Pippa watches her friends express themselves through their special dance moves, she wonders if she will ever find the dance in herself. With gentle

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Hom

Hom is the last of his kind. I don’t know what kind of creature he is, and nobody knows he exists… apart from me. When

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The Same But Different

A young girl doesn’t like it when other children laugh at her for having brown skin and fuzzy hair. She doesn’t like being different. But

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Here Be Dragons

This book is about a knight on a mission: to find and slay a dragon. The other knights have told him that there’s no such

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The Great Irish Politics Book

Join David McCullagh as he guides you through all the things that make our country work. Why do we have a president and a Taoiseach?

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Finn’s First Song

Squeeeak … Thwop … Thwop … Dwoooooerrrp! Dad sings his magical whale songs to Mum and baby Finn, far, far away across the huge ocean.

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Girls Play Too: Book 2

Irish sportswomen continue to make headlines! Whether it is Kellie Harrington’s dominance in the boxing ring, or Rachael Blackmore’s phenomenal success in 2021, as the

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Great Irish Sports Stars: Jason Sherlock

All-Ireland Winner, 7-time Leinster Football Champion, Represented Ireland in U-21 Soccer and Basketball. Jason Sherlock’s journey from sports-mad boy to Hill 16 icon wasn’t a

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No Ordinary Joe

All sorts of labels are put on my brotherbut that doesn’t mean he’s any one thing.At the end of the day, they’re just words.A pile

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Wulfie Saves the Planet

Libby has only three days to create the best ever eco-project for school. So the last thing she needs is Wulfie showing off his ‘super’

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The Shadows of Rookhaven

It is the time of The Great Configuration, a once in a hundred years event. Family and monsters descend on Rookhaven from all over the

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Aldrin Adams and the Cheese Nightmares

Aldrin Adams is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary superpower. When he eats cheese, just before he goes to sleep at night, he can enter

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Football Spirit

Eoin Madden and his friends are back at school. After three years on the Junior Cup rugby team, there’s time to play soccer for a

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The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street

When their father’s business fails, Eliza and Jonty Kane move to a tenement flat in Dublin city, number 16 Henrietta Street. From a crowded tenement

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Puffling and the Egg

A helpful little puffling lives on Skellig Michael When she finds a lost egg, she must get it back to its nest. But the wind

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Morgana Mage in the Robotic Age

Morgana loves robots and longs to attend robotics school in the city. But she’s a witch, living in a magical woodland community: the closest she

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Monster Hunting for Beginners

Monster Hunting isn’t as easy as it looks. And Jack should know. Because an ogre has just appeared in his garden and tried to EAT

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The Very Dangerous Sisters of Indigo McCloud

Indigo McCloud’s sister Peaches is every adult’s favourite child: pretty, golden-haired, polite and charming. But the children of Blunt know better: Peaches and her sisters

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Tabitha Plimtock and the Edge of the World

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Winds of Change

Ireland, 2020. As Garrett traces his family history, he discovers that some secrets just can’t be kept. Ireland, 1880s. Can three children stay friends when

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A Short Hopeful Guide to Climate Change

This is the story of humans and fire and how we’ve changed the world. It’s a story about our civilisation and our environment, about wildfires

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The Kidds of Summerhill

How far will a young girl go to keep her family together? It is spring 1945. Orphaned Nancy Kidd has a lot on her plate

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Rabbit & Bear: A Bad King is a Sad Thing

Gorgeously illustrated and with a classic feel, this is a brilliantly funny story of a rabbit and a bear … and how to defeat an

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I Don’t Want to go to School

It’s Mouse’s first day of school, and she is so nervous. She can’t eat her cereal, and she wonders what the children will be like.

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All The Money in the World

Fifteen-year-old Penny longs for something better. Better than a small, damp flat. Better than her bullying classmates and uninterested teachers. Better than misery and poverty

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There’s a Ghost in this House

A captivating and utterly unique picturebook with interactive, transparent pages about a girl who lives in a haunted house from world-renowned artist Oliver Jeffers. A

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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

“‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…” P.J. Lynch brings his rich and atmospheric

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A Field Guide to Leaflings

Welcome to the world of Leaflings, the secret guardians of the trees. Among the branches and roots of some of our planet’s most important inhabitants,

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UNA WOODS A Spooktacular Place To Be

A Spooktacular Place to be

A spooky bus tour around Ireland, with our favourite Dublin Vampire! He travels to well-known places all over the country, including St. Michan’s church (where

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Up on the Mountain

Up on the mountain we followed a small path through the woods … So begins the latest story from the award-winning author and illustrator Peter

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The Ravens Call Sinead O'Hart

The Ravens’ Call

The king’s ravenkeeper and his daughter, Alys, are part of a long line of proud royal ravenkeepers and they know the ravens well. So, when

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Skyborn Sinead O'Hart

Skyborn

The circus has seen better days, but for Bastjan it’s home. He will do anything he can to save it, even if it means participating

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The Star-Spun Web Sinead O'Hart

Star Spun Web

When Tess leaves her orphanage home for a new life with a distant relative, she hopes to find answers to her mysterious origins. But on

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The Eye of the north Sinead O'Hart

Eye of the North

When Emmeline’s parents mysteriously disappear, she finds herself flung into an adventure that takes her to the frozen north. There evil Dr Siegfriend Bauer is

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An t-Oileán Thiar

Is fada le Fia go dtabharfaidh sí cuairt ar an oileán draíochta, áit a bhfuil an t-aer lán le rúin. ​Oíche amháin, síneann ga gealaí

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Would You Like a Banana?

Award-winning illustrator Yasmeen Ismail’s delightfully funny picture book featuring a very stubborn gorilla will have the whole family laughing! Gorilla is hungry but there is

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Geansaí Ottó

Tá stíl ag Ottó agus is breá leis éadaí deasa. Ach ní thuigeann Mamó rud ar bith faoi chúrsaí faisin. Nuair a thagann geansaí gránna

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What We’ll Build

From internationally bestselling and world-renowned picture book creator Oliver Jeffers comes the companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller Here We Are! What shall we build, you

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The Fowl Twins: Deny All Charges

The second book in the blockbusting new series from the bestselling author of Artemis Fowl. The second Fowl Twins adventure starts with a bang –

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Molly and the Lighthouse

One night, Molly realises the lighthouse isn’t working, wakes up her friend Dylan, and sets off to help. But will Molly and Dylan be able

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The Accidental Adventures of Onion O’Brien: The Secret Scientist

Onion and the gang are at it again. This time they’ve stumbled across a Russian scientist at an old folks’ home whose crazy experiments are

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I Say Boo, You Say Hoo

‘There’s something I need you to help me with. When I say BOO, you say HOO. Are you ready?’ Boo is little ghost who lives

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Go to Sleep, Hoglet!

One misty morning, in their cosy little nests, down by the banks of the river Boyne, all the hedgehogs were snuggling up for the Big

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Mór agus Muilc

Leabhar pictiúir do pháistí, bunaithe ar scéal traidisiúnta as Tír Chonaill. Cuireann sé síos ar an bheirt charachtar, Mór agus Muilc, agus na heachtraí a

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Wee Donkey’s Treasure Hunt: An Adventure All Around Ireland

A wee donkey sat in the shade of a tree.‘If you had one wish, Grandad, what would it be?’‘I’d fix this old back and these

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Elsetime

A haunting story of friendship, courage, time-travel and a very special crow. It is January 6th 1928, the day before the Great Flood. There’s a

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The Promise Witch (The Wild Magic Trilogy, Book Three)

Third and final instalment in a middle-grade fantasy adventure about witches and forbidden magic from a beloved Irish writer. In the third book in The

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The Miracle on Ebenezer Street

An enchanting and exciting tale of Christmas magic from multi-award-winning and bestselling writer Catherine Doyle. ‘Old Marley’s magic was beginning to stir…’ George is about

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Wulfie: Stage Fright

Wulfie is just like a puppy – fluffy and adorable. But unlike a puppy, he talks. And he’s purple. His favourite food is smelly socks.

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Rónán and the Mermaid: A Tale of Old Ireland

An Irish storyteller revisits the little-known legend of the Mermaid Saint in a haunting, beautifully illustrated tale of kindness, music, and longing. Long ago, on

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Irish Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends

A complete collection of much loved Irish fairy tales, myths and legends, bound into a beautiful new edition. Enjoy the rich mythical history of Ireland from

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The Haunted Lake

In famed author-illustrator P.J. Lynch’s gorgeous tale, he creates two worlds—underwater and above—to tell an epic and haunting love story. Jacob and his father are

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The Dead Zoo

Mr Gray is a very serious man. And he is in charge of a very old, very serious museum filled to the brim with stuffed

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Go, Johnny, Go! Johnny Sexton, Irish Sporting Legend

Johnny Sexton dreamed of becoming a rugby legend from the moment he was born. He enjoyed success from a young age, playing on school teams

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Girls Play Too: Inspiring Stories of Irish Sportswomen

Irish sportswomen have been breaking the mould for a very, very long time. In 1956, Maeve Kyle became our first female Olympian, and in 1978

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Jasper and Scruff: The Treasure Hunt

Smart cat. Messy puppy. Here comes trouble… Meet Jasper and Scruff, an unlikely pair as they learn about friendship, determination, and working together. When Jasper

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Fizzy and Bandit

A fun, heartwarming and humorous story, ideal for children practising their reading at home or in school.Fizzy wants a dog. Not just any dog though

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Mermaid School: Ready, Steady, Swim!

Marnie Blue and her friends are horrified to discover they have a new P.E. teacher at Mermaid School, and he’s very keen to improve everyone’s

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Mermaid School: The Clamshell Show

Marnie Blue has settled into Lady Sealia Foam’s Mermaid School and become best friends with Pearl and Orla. And now might be her chance to

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Mermaid School

It is Marnie Blue’s very first day at Lady Sealia Foam’s Mermaid School, and she’s terrified. What if she can’t make any new friends, or

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Eggcorns: From Bumbumbees to Jellycopters

Have you ever seen a Bumbum bee, or an Elelamp? Does your pet wear Doggles? These are all Eggcorns, where a child’s mispronunciation can add

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Little Owl and the Christmas Star

A joyous version of the nativity story told by a curious little owl. It is a silent night and Little Owl is sitting in their

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Don’t Worry, Little Crab

From the multi award-winning picture book maker of A Bit Lost, Oh No, George!, Shh! We Have a Plan and Goodnight Everyone comes a bold new picture book about

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The One with the Waggly Tail: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood

‘How much is that doggie in the window — The one with the waggly tail?’ From spiders and fleas to pirates at sea; from grasshoppers

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Once Upon A Reader: Raising Your Children With a Love of Books

Fostering a love of reading is one of the most important things we can do for our children and finding the right books is key!

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MÍP

Is í MÍP an róbat is cliste dár déanadh riamh. Tá sí á seoladh go Mars, le fáil amach an bhfuil  eachtráin ina gcónaí ann.

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Skulduggery Pleasant: Seasons of War

War is coming. To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a secret mission that takes them away from everything they know, to a

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Have You Seen the Dublin Vampire?

In an old part of Dublin, right down by the sea, There’s a moon-shaped park with a creepy old tree.The Dublin Vampire lives there. The

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Gordon’s Game: Blue Thunder

Gordon is back for more mayhem and mischief in the second book in the laugh-out-loud Gordon’s Game series!__________ Gordon D’Arcy – the only kid at school with

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The Boldness of Betty: A 1913 Dublin Lockout Novel

Dublin 1913 My name is Betty Rafferty. A few weeks ago I had to leave school and go out to work in a cake shop,

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Chasing Ghosts: An Arctic Adventure

An enthralling novel of two intertwining stories based on real events in 19th century Ireland and the Canadian Arctic. Two ships Arctic-bound, HMS Erebus and Terror, leave London in

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Lily Steps Up

From the author of Lily at Lissadell and the ‘Alice & Megan’, ‘Eva’ and ‘Time After Time’ series Lissadell House, Sligo, 1913 Friends Lily and

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Holy Shocking Saints

Holy Shocking Saints is a beautifully illustrated book celebrating the extraordinary lives of twelve remarkable people. Whether mystics, healers or holy people, their strong belief

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Pígin’s Unexpected Adventure

Join Pigín on an unexpected trip – all the way to London! Pigín is enjoying a wonderful summer party at the fairies’ place behind Howth

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Take the Lead: How to Care for Your Dog

A fun and practical guide to caring for dogs and puppies. How to be your best friend’s best friend For thousands of years, dogs and

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Animal Crackers

Animal Crackers: Fantastic Facts About Your Favourite Animals

Which are the biggest and smallest animals? Which are the most dangerous? Why do dogs love people so much? What animals can live in the

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Boot: The Creaky Creatures

For fans of Toy Story and Charlie Changes into a Chicken, this is the third hilarious, warm-hearted story about a small robot on a big

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