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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

[FINISHED] 12pm | Dead as a Dodo: The Giant Dead Zoo Story and Draw Along with Peter Donnelly

November 22, 2020 12:00 pm
Cost: €5 per family
Until 12:30 pm
AGE 4 TO 6

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

This event is no longer running.
Have you ever been to the Natural History Museum in Dublin, otherwise known as the ‘Dead Zoo’? It was one of Peter’s favourite places as a boy, and he loves it so much he recently wrote a book about it called The Dead Zoo, a book Ryan Tubridy described as his  “favourite book from anywhere in the world this year”. 

Mr Gray owns a museum full of animals. He does not like children very much. In fact, he  is most at home with all things that are still, quiet and stuffed! So, when a real live mouse decides to move into the Dead Zoo, Mr Gray is determined that she must go. That is, until he needs her help … 

Peter will share his book with you, and then he will show you how to draw some of the animal characters from his book. So have paper, a pencil and some colouring pencils or markers ready.

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Peter Donnelly

Peter Donnelly is an award- winning picture book author and illustrator from Dublin. His much-loved ‘President’ books The President’s Glasses, The President’s Cat and The President’s Surprise have all been best-sellers, and shortlisted for Irish book awards. The President’s Cat won him the An Post Children’s Book of the Year (Junior).

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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 animals. Mr Gray does not like people. He does not like children. In fact, he is most at home with things that are stuffed. So when a real live mouse decides to move into the Dead Zoo, Mr Gray is determined that she must go. That is, until he needs her help … Another instant classic from the creator of the award-winning President picture book series.

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