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Celebrating Irish Children’s Books | Online School and Family Book Festival.
WonderFest is over for 2021. Thank you to everyone who took part. See you in 2022!

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Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland - Literature

[FINISHED] 11am | Hoglets, Hares and Donkeys: Story and Art Workshop with Gerry Daly, Kim Sharkey and Bex Sheridan

November 22, 2020 11:00 am
Cost: €5 per family
Until 11:40 am
AGE 4 TO 6

Note: This event is from a previous year.
Please visit this year’s festival programme for the latest 2021 events.

Join Gerry, Kim and Bex for an interactive story and drawing workshop all about animals. Hear them read from their animal-themed picture books and then learn how to draw a donkey, a hare and a hoglet. They’ll draw some other animals for you too, and you might even get to create your own new animal with the artists. Have your pencil and paper at the ready! If you love animals, drawing and stories, this is the event for you.

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Gerry Daly

Gerry Daly is an illustrator and an author. His first book, set around the Skellig islands, was Where Are You, Puffling? written by Erika McGann. It is also available in Irish as Cá Bhfuil Puifín Beag? His new book with Erika McGann, Wee Donkey’s Treasure Hunt, is an adventure around Ireland. Gerry loves showing children how to draw friendly animal characters!

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Kim Sharkey

Kim Sharkey is an award-winning illustrator who received the Children’s Books Ireland Eilís Dillon Award for her first children’s book, Mór agus Muilc. A multi-media artist, Kim lives and works by the sea on the west coast of Ireland in Co Donegal, with her husband Jimmy, dog Rosie, two cats and three goats. Kim’s art draws inspiration from the abundance of native wildlife near her home and from the wonder-filled tales of folklore that she has loved since she was a little girl.

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Bex Sheridan

Bex Sheridan is an illustrator, writer and graphic designer. She has a great love of animals and is often commissioned to illustrate them. Bex and her husband even have their own mini-menagerie: it began with one rabbit and now they share their home with rabbits, dogs, birds (of many kinds), a bearded dragon and even an African pygmy hedgehog, who was the inspiration behind her new book, Go to Sleep, Hoglet!, the story of an Irish hedgehog who doesn't want to hibernate because Christmas is coming.

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Wee Donkey's Treasure Hunt

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 wobbly knees, and go see the sights that are out there to see.’ The wee donkey thought, ‘I can’t turn back the years, but I can get Grandad some great souvenirs.’ She slipped through the gate with a small wooden cart, in search of some gifts that would warm Grandad’s heart. The wee donkey heads across Ireland, where she “borrows” the Jeanie Johnston ship from the Liffey, the round tower from Glendalough, kisses from the Blarney Stone and more, to bring to her grandad. But you can’t go taking national treasures like that, particularly when the police find out! A warm and entertaining picture book from the team who brought you Where Are You, Puffling?

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Kim Sharkey

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 bhíonn acu i ndiaidh dóibh casadh le portán ar an trá. Síleann Mór agus Muilc gur an bás atá sa phortán agus imíonn siad ina rith. Casann siad le cuid mhór carachtair shuimiúla ag teitheadh dóibh agus ritheann siad go léir le heagla ón phortán. Is ramás simplí siamsúil é a thaitníonn go mór le páistí óga. An ceacht a fhoghlaimítear sa scéal nó nár cheart ligean den eagla an bhua a fháil agus nár cheart éisteacht le gach rud a chluin tú. Tá an leabhar maisithe go healaíonta ag an ealaíontóir, Kim Sharkey.

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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 Winter Sleep. But one little hedgehog just couldn’t go to sleep. Every time Hoglet closed his eyes, he kept thinking about Rabbit’s Super Special Secret … A baby hedgehog decides that he doesn’t want to hibernate, and goes searching for Christmas magic in the world of humans. A perfect bedtime story for animal lovers.

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This looks terrific - we'll be there! A must for any children's writers or illustrators and anyone who wants to find out more about children's books. https://t.co/6LtaWDfkBp
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Sarah Webb@sarahwebbishere
Join us at the next online #ChildrensBookSalon on Thurs 24 Feb 7.30pm with
@HGold_author
@gerrydalyart
@Erika_McGann
@markbradleyart + @KatiaCotton
talking about their new books.
A must for all who love children's books.
Tickets available here: https://t.co/p4MTKyBEHh https://t.co/6B92dpQzlg
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Wonderfest Wonderfest · 6 months ago
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Watch out for #BookElves2021 from today until 2nd Dec - lots of great recommendations from children's writers, illustrators, librarians, teachers and more.
If you're looking for a children's book, the elves are there to help! https://t.co/MXGLs3Zeve
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Sarah Webb@sarahwebbishere
🚨The #BookElves2021 are back!🚨
We are children's writers, illustrators, booksellers, reviewers, librarians and teachers and we LOVE children's books.
Today we'll be recommending some of our favourite #IrishBooks
Watch out for us during @RTELateLateShow #LateLateToyShow too! https://t.co/wxNdd7sxli
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Wonderfest Wonderfest · 6 months ago
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And that’s a wrap! #WonderFest21 has officially come to an end and we’ve had an incredible time celebrating the best of children’s books in Ireland over the last five days. https://t.co/Inkm4UrgpU
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